Review vs Revert - What's the difference?
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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.
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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),
One who, or that which, reverts.
(in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
* 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons , page 27:
* 2001 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
* 2010 , Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250 (page 77)
(computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
* Prior
* Thomson
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
To cause to return to a former condition.
(now rare) To return; to come back.
* Shakespeare
To return to the possession of.
# (legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
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, chapter=2 (biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.
(intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
* 1995 , Wiz?rat al-I?l?m wa-al-Thaq?fah, Sudanow: Volume 20
* 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
* 2003 , Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumu?ah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12
(intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To reply; to come back.
(math) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ...'', where one variable ''y'' is expressed in powers of a second variable ''x''), so as to find the second variable ''x'' expressed in a series arranged in powers of ''y .
As nouns the difference between review and revert
is that review is a second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact while revert is one who, or that which, reverts.As verbs the difference between review and revert
is that review is to survey; to look broadly over while revert is (now rare) to turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.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?
See also
* revise (v.)Anagrams
*revert
English
(reversion)Noun
(en noun)- Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.
- genuine — if intentionally vague — concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts
- We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
Verb
(en verb)- Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
- The tumbling stream / Reverted , plays in undulating flow.
- So that my arrows / Would have reverted to my bow again.
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- He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam.
- The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.
- But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life.