Critic vs Review - What's the difference?
critic | review |
A person who appraises the works of others.
* Macaulay
A specialist in judging works of art.
One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
* I. Watts
An opponent.
(an act of criticism)
* Alexander Pope
(the art of criticism)
* John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
* A. Brewer
A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.
An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
(legal) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
A stage show made up of sketches etc.
A survey of the available items or material.
A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
To survey; to look broadly over.
To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
* '>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),
(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),
As nouns the difference between critic and review
is that critic is a person who appraises the works of others while review is a second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.As verbs the difference between critic and review
is that critic is (obsolete|ambitransitive) to criticise while review is to survey; to look broadly over.critic
English
(wikipedia critic)Alternative forms
* critick (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller ] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
- When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
- Make each day a critic on the last.
- And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic , than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Verb
- Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
Anagrams
* ----review
English
(wikipedia review)Noun
(en noun)- I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.
- The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.
- The victims demanded a full judical review of the case.
- The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.
- The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.
- The Times Literary Review is published in London.
- The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.
- The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.
Derived terms
* * judicial reviewVerb
(en verb)- Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.
- The critic reviews every new play in London.
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.
page 113:
- Shall I the long, laborious ?cene review , // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?