1. review - Noun
2. review - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Iris Murdoch
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. Federico Fellini
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. W. H. Auden
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. Bob Woodward
An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed. David Mermin