Definition of review
- n. - To view or see again; to look back on.
- n. - To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
- n. - To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing
it, or a book for a new edition.
- n. - 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.
- n. - To make a formal or official examination of the state of,
as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.
- n. - To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the
proceedings and judgments of a lower one.
- n. - To retrace; to go over again.
- v. i. - To look back; to make a review.
- n. - 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.
- n. - An examination with a view to amendment or improvement;
revision; as, an author's review of his works.
- n. - A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a
criticism; a critique.
- n. - A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of
interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.
- n. - 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.
- n. - The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower
court by a higher.
- n. - A lesson studied or recited for a second time.