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Review vs Information - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between review and information

is that review is a judicial reassessment of a case or an event while information is a statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.

In obsolete terms the difference between review and information

is that review is to retrace; to go over again while information is the act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

As nouns the difference between review and information

is that review is a second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact while information is things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

As a verb review

is to survey; to look broadly over.

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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    information

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
    • I need some more information about this issue.
  • The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
    • For your information , I did this because I wanted to.
  • (legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
  • (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
  • (Christianity) Divine inspiration.
  • (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the .
  • A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
  • As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data.
    • And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information .
  • (computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

    • Usage notes

    * The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession that should be adhering to it.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/]

    Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (information)

    Related terms

    * inform * informant * informatics * knowledge

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