Definition of Review

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Review

To view or see again; to look back on.

To go over and examine critically or deliberately.

To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.

To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.

To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.

To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.

To retrace; to go over again.

To look back; to make a review.

A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.

An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.

A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.

A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.

The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.

A lesson studied or recited for a second time.

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Review Quotations

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
Les Brown

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
Britney Spears

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
Kevin Bacon

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.
Sandra Bullock

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
Al Yankovic

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E. B. White

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Jim Harrison

Review Translations

review in Dutch is recenseren, bespreken
review in Finnish is selostaa
review in French is critique, compte-rendu, revoyez, revoyons, revois
review in Spanish is repaso, repasar
review in Swedish is recension, tidskrift, revy, kritik, recensera

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