review

From Middle English revewe, reveue, borrowed from Old French reveue, revue (Modern French: revue), feminine form of revu, past participle of revoir (French: revoir), from Latin revideō, from re- +videō (“see, observe”) (English: video). Equivalent to re- +‎ view. Compare retrospect.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvjuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː

review (plural reviews)

1. A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.

   I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.

2. An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
   • 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD (2013 reprint), →ISBN, page 54.

     The more strongly people felt about their ideas, the more potent the demons seemed to them: Christians believed that traditional paganism, far from being the work of men, was an 'opium of the masses', pumped into the human race by the non-human demons; and one scholar even ascribed bad reviews of his book to demonic inspiration!

   The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.

3. (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.

   The victims demanded a full judicial review of the case.

4. A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.

   Synonym: revue

   The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.

5. A survey of the available items or material.

   The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.

6. A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.

   The Times Literary Review is published in London.

7. A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.

   The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.

8. A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.

   The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.

• board of review
• capsule review
• judicial review

review (third-person singular simple present reviews, present participle reviewing, simple past and past participle reviewed)

1. To survey; to look broadly over.

   Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.

2. To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.

   The critic reviews every new play in London.

   • 2014 December 23, David E. Sanger, “Countering cyberattacks without a playbook [print version: A cyberwar with no playbook, International New York Times, 26 December 2014, p. 18]”, in The New York Times‎:

     […] "The Interview," a crude and poorly reviewed comedy about a C.I.A. effort to hire two bumbling journalists to knock off Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader […]

3. To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
4. (transitive, US, Canada) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
5. (obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.
   • 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, act IV, scene iv, in The Works of Mr. William Shakeſpear; in Eight Volumes, volume II (1709), page 954:

     Cam[illo]   What I do next, ſhall be next to tell the King // Of this Eſcape, and whither they are bound: // Wherein my hope is, I ſhall ſo prevail, // To force him after: in whoſe company // I ſhall review Sicilia; for whoſe ſight, // I have a Woman’s Longing.

6. (obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.
   • 1726, Alexander Pope (translator), Homer (author), Odyssey, book III, lines 127–128, in The Odyſſey of Homer, volume I (1760), page 113:

     Shall I the long, laborious ſcene review, // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?

• reviewer
• reviewability
• medireview
• rereview

• retrospect
• revise (v.)

• viewer