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Review vs Scrutinise – What’s the difference?

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Review vs Scrutinise - What's the difference?
As verbs the difference between review and scrutinise is that review is to survey; to look broadly over while scrutinise is to examine something with great care.

As a noun review is a second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.

review

English

(wikipedia review )

Noun

(en noun )

  • A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.
    • I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.
  • An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
    • The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.
  • (legal) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
    • The victims demanded a full judical review of the case.
  • A stage show made up of sketches etc.
    • The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.
  • A survey of the available items or material.
    • The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.
  • A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
    • The Times Literary Review is published in London.
  • A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
    • The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.
  • A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
    • The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.

    Derived terms

    *
    * judicial review

    Verb

    (en verb )

  • To survey; to look broadly over.
    • Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.
  • To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
    • The critic reviews every new play in London.
  • * ‘>citation
  • To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
  • (obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.
  • * 1610–11 , (William Shakespeare), ”, act IV, scene iv, in ”The Works of Mr. ”William Shake?pear”; in Eight Volumes , volume II (1709), page 954:
    • Cam”[”illo”]   What I do next, ?hall be next to tell the King // Of this E?cape, and whither they are bound: // Wherein my hope is, I ?hall ?o prevail, // To force him after: in who?e company // I ?hall review ”Sicilia ; for who?e ?ight, // I have a Woman’s Longing.
  • (obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.
  • * 1726 , (Alexander Pope) (translator), (Homer) (author), (Odyssey)”, book III, lines 127–128, in ”The Ody??ey of Homer , volume I (1760), page 113:
    • Shall I the long, laborious ?cene review , // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?

    See also

    * revise (v.)

    Related terms

    * reviewer
    * reviewability
    * medireview
    * rereview

    Anagrams

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    scrutinise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * scrutinize

    Verb

    (scrutinis)

  • To examine something with great care.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

    • , title= Boundary problems
    , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

  • To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

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