Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To look over, study, or examine again.
  • intransitive verb To consider retrospectively; look back on.
  • intransitive verb To examine with an eye to criticism or correction.
  • intransitive verb To write or give a critical report on (a new work or performance, for example).
  • intransitive verb Law To evaluate (a decision made by or action taken by a lower court) to determine whether any error was made.
  • intransitive verb To subject to a formal inspection, especially a military inspection.
  • intransitive verb To go over or restudy material.
  • intransitive verb To write critical reviews, especially for a newspaper or magazine.
  • noun A reexamination or reconsideration.
  • noun A retrospective view or survey.
  • noun A restudying of subject matter.
  • noun An exercise for use in restudying material.
  • noun A report or essay giving a critical estimate of a work or performance.
  • noun A periodical devoted to articles and essays on current affairs, literature, or art.
  • noun An inspection or examination for the purpose of evaluation.
  • noun A formal military inspection.
  • noun A formal military ceremony held in honor of a person or occasion.
  • noun Law An evaluation conducted by a higher court of a decision made or action taken by a lower court to determine whether any error was made.
  • noun A musical show consisting of often satirical skits, songs, and dances; a revue.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A second or repeated view.
  • noun A view of the past; a retrospective survey.
  • noun The process of going over again or repeating what is past: as, the review of a study; the class has monthly reviews in Latin.
  • noun A revision; a reëxamination with a view to amendment or improvement: as, an author's review of his works.
  • noun A critical examination; a critique; particularly, a written discussion of the merits and defects of a literary work; a critical essay.
  • noun The name given to certain periodical publications, consisting of a collection of critical essays on subjects of public interest, literary, scientific, political, moral, or theological, together with critical examinations of new publications.
  • noun The formal inspection of military or naval forces by a higher official or a superior in rank, with a view to learning the condition of the forces thus inspected, and their skill in performing customary evolutions and manœuvers.
  • noun Inlaw, the judicial revision or reconsideration of a judgment or an order already made; the examination by an appellate tribunal of the decision of a lower tribunal, to determine whether it be erroneous.
  • To see again.
  • To look back upon; recall by the aid of memory.
  • To repeat; go over again; retrace: as, to review a course of study.
  • To examine again; go over again in order to prune or correct; revise.
  • To consider or discuss critically; go over in careful examination in order to bring out excellences and defects, and, with reference to established canons, to pass judgment; especially, to consider or discuss critically in a written essay.
  • To look carefully over; survey; especially, to make a formal or official inspection of: as, to review a regiment.
  • In law: To consider or examine again; revise: as, a court of appeal reviews the judgment of an inferior court.
  • To reëxamine or retax, as a bill of costs by the taxing-master or by a judge in chambers.
  • To look back.
  • To make reviews; be a reviewer: as, he reviews for the “Times.”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To look back; to make a review.
  • transitive verb rare To view or see again; to look back on.
  • transitive verb To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
  • transitive verb To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.
  • transitive verb To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of.
  • transitive verb To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like.
  • transitive verb (Law) To reëxamine judically.
  • transitive verb To retrace; to go over again.
  • noun A second or repeated view; a reëxamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again.
  • noun An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably from Middle English, inspection of military forces, from Old French revue, review, from feminine past participle of reveeir, to see again, from Latin revidēre : re-, re- + vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle French reveue (French: revue), feminine past participle of revoir (French: revoir), from Latin revidere.

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