Noun

(en-noun)

(label) Mental focus.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}

* , chapter=3

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)

, title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}

(label) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.

* 1818 , (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), (Frankenstein); or, the Modern Prometheus , ch. 3,

She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.

* 1910 , (Stephen Leacock), " ,

For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.

A state of alertness in the standing position.

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.