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What does "review" mean?

Review: To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: (a) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. (b) 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. (c) To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment. (d) (Law) To reëxamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To retrace; to go over again. Shall I the long, laborious scene review Pope.
  2. 3.To look back; to make a review.
  3. 4.A second or repeated view; a reëxamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.
  4. 5.An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.
  5. 6.A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.
  6. 7.A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.
  7. 8.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.
  8. 9.(Law) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.
  9. 10.A lesson studied or recited for a second time. Bill of review (Equity), a bill, in the nature of proceedings in error, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a final decree which has been duly signed and enrolled. Wharton. -- Commission of review (Eng. Eccl. Law), a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of the court of delegates.

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