Word Finder - review

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

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

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An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.

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The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.

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A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.

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The victims demanded a full judicial review of the case.

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A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.

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The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.

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• revue

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A survey of the available items or material.

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The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.

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

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The Times Literary Review is published in London.

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

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The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.

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

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The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.

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To survey; to look broadly over.

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

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

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The critic reviews every new play in London.

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To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.

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To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.

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To view or see again; to look back on.

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To retrace; to go over again.

Shall we review what you've learned?

So let's review my key points to see if they are compelling.

As I review these points, none of them seem particularly like "stretches" to me.

Did you hear of the last event at the review in Petersburg?

He soon, however, turned his attention to metaphysics and psychology, and for the North American Review and later for the National he wrote philosophical essays on the lines of Mill, Darwin and Spencer.

They are not put forward as the result of an independent review of the evidence.

At the review next day the Emperor asked Prince Andrew where he would like to serve, and Prince Andrew lost his standing in court circles forever by not asking to remain attached to the sovereign's person, but for permission to serve in the army.

See the Quarterly Review (April 1892).

From 1870 to 1877 he was assistant professor of history at Harvard and from 1870 to 1876 was editor of the North American Review.

An article by Thomas Carlyle in the Edinburgh Review (July 1832) is the best criticism on Elliott.

An Australian edition of the Review of Reviews is published at Melbourne.

The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent the night ten miles from Olmutz and next morning were to come straight to the review, reaching the field at Olmutz by ten o'clock.

In the work of this review his chief collaborator was Giovanni Gentile, but Croce contributed most of the literary and much of the philosophic criticisms.

In1834-1837he edited the newly-established Literary and Theological Review, in which he opposed the "New Haven" theology.

Comte's special object is a study of social physics, a science that before his advent was still to be formed; his second object is a review of the methods and leading generalities of all the positive sciences already formed, so that we may know both what system of inquiry to follow in our new science, and also where the new science will stand in relation to other knowledge.

If Tennyson had died of the savage article which presently appeared in the Quarterly Review, literature would have sustained terrible losses, but his name would have lived for ever among those of the great English poets.

At first his literary activity was limited to sectional publications, and he addressed his public, now as editor and now as leading contributor, in the Monthly Repository, the Christian Reformer, the Prospective, the Westminster and the National Review.

The last named was continued in 1737 as the History of the Works of the Learned, and was carried on without intermission until 1 743, when its place was taken by A Literary Journal (Dublin, 1 744 - 1 749), the first review published in Ireland.

Dodsley united the character of a review of books with that of a literary magazine.

The Tory party and the established church were defended in the Critical Review (1756-1817), founded by Archibald Hamilton and supported by Smollett, Dr Johnson and Robertson.

As far back as 1755 Adam Smith, Blair and others had produced an Edinburgh Review which only ran to two numbers, and in 1773 Gilbert Stuart and William Smellie issued during three years an Edinburgh Magazine and Review.

There is also the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, American Historical Review, issued quarterly.

The first Canadian review, the Quebec Magazine (1791-1793), was published quarterly in French and English.

The Sydney University Magazine (1855), again published in 1878-1879, and continued as the Sydney University Review, is the first magazine of a high literary standard.

Of contemporary magazines Dalgety's Review is mainly agricultural, the Australian Magazine (1909) and the Lone Hand (1907) are popular, and the Science of Man is an anthropological review.

The Journal of Australasia (1856-1858), the Australian Monthly Magazine (1865-1867), which contained contributions from Marcus Clarke and was continued as the Colonial Monthly (1867-1869), the Melbourne Review (1876-1885) and the Victorian Review (1879-1886) may also be mentioned.

The Imperial Review, apparently the work of one pen, has been published since 1879; the Pastoralists' Review appeals more especially to the agricultural community.

The Rassegna settimanale was a weekly political and literary review, which after eight years of existence gave place to a daily newspaper, the Rassegna.

The Algemeene Kunst en Letterbode (1788) was long the leading review of Holland; in 1860 it was joined to the Nederlandsch Spectator (1855).

At the next review, they say, the Emperor did not once deign to address him.

Brownson's Quarterly Review began as the Boston Quarterly Review in 1838, and did much to introduce to American readers the works of the modern French philosophical school.

The South Australian Twopenny Magazine was published at Plymouth, England, in 1839, and the South Australian Miscellany and New Zealand Review at London in the same year.

Tasmania.-The first magazine was Murray's Austral-Asiatic Review, published at Hobart in 1828.

Grant, an eccentric genius, the Monthly Review (1888-1890), the New Zealand Illustrated Magazine (1899-1905), chiefly devoted to the light literature of New Zealand subjects, the Maori Record (1905-1907), and the Red Funnel, published since 1905.

The Bombay Quarterly Magazine (1851-1853) gave place to the Bombay Quarterly Review, issued in 1855.

Of other contemporary magazines the Hindustan Review (Allahabad), the Modern Review (Calcutta), the Indian Review (Madras), the Madras Review, a quarterly first published in 1895, and the Calcutta University Magazine (1894), are important.

Of contemporary magazines the Tropical Agriculturist was started in 1881, the Ceylon Literary Register (1886-1896), afterwards the Monthly Literary Register and the Ceylon National Review in 1893.

The prospectus promised to give an account of the chief books published throughout Europe, obituary notices, a review of the progress of science, besides legal and ecclesiastical information and other matters of interest to cultivated persons.

It has always seemed impossible to carry on successfully in France a review upon the lines of those which have become so numerous and important in England.

The Nuova antologia (1866) soon acquired a well-deserved reputation as a high-class review and magazine; its rival, the Rivista europea, being the special organ of the Florentine men of letters.

Of those founded in the 19th century may be mentioned the Recensent (1803), and Nieuwe Recensent; the Nederlandsch Museum (1835); the Tijdstroom (1857); the Tijdspiegel, a literary journal of Protestant tendency; the Theologisch Tijdschrift (1867), the organ of the Leiden school of theology; and the Dietsche Warande, a Roman Catholic review devoted to the national antiquities.

Among later periodicals we may mention Skandia (1833-1837); Literaturbladet (1838-1840); Stallningar och Forhallanden (1838) of Crusenstolpe, a monthly review of Scandinavian history; Tidskrift for Litteratur (1850); Norsk Tidsskrift (1852), weekly, Forr och Nu; and the Revue suedoise (1858) of Kramer, written in French.

Portugal Portugal could long boast of only one review, the Jornal enciclopedico (1779-1806), which had many interruptions; then came the Jornal de Coimbra (1812-1820); the Panorama (1836-1857), founded by Herculano; the Revista universal lisbonense (1841-1853), established by Castilho; the Instituto (1853) of Coimbra; the Archivo pittoresco (1857) of Lisbon; and the Jornal do sociedade dos amigos das letteras.

In 1868 a review called Vox femenina, and conducted by women, was established at Lisbon.

After the return of King Otho in 1833 a literary review called 'Ipcs was commenced.

Karamsin brought out in 1802 the V'yestnik Evropi, an important review with Liberal tendencies.

He also wrote in prison many short pamphlets, chiefly controversial, published a curious work on the famous storm of the 26th of November 1703, and started in February 1704 perhaps the most remarkable of all his projects, The Review.

After his release Defoe went to Bury St Edmunds, though he did not interrupt either his Review or his occasional pamphlets.

In this year Henry Sacheverell delivered his famous sermons, and Defoe wrote several tracts about them and attacked the preacher in his Review.

This was printed in the English Historical Review, and afterwards separately.