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Report vs Review - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between report and review

is that report is to refer while review is to retrace; to go over again.

As verbs the difference between report and review

is that report is to relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). } while review is to survey; to look broadly over.

As nouns the difference between report and review

is that report is a piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject while review is a second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.

report

English

(wikipedia report)

Verb

(en verb)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01, author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore
  • , volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported
  • (label) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
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  • *:thenne they ansuerd by and by that they coude not excuse the quene // Allas sayd the quene I made this dyner for a good entente / and neuer for none euyl soo almyghty god me help in my ryght as I was neuer purposed to doo suche euylle dedes / and that I reporte me vnto god
  • (label) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
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  • (label) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
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  • (label) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
  • (label) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
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  • (label) To be accountable.
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  • To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
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  • To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
  • (label) To refer.
  • *(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
  • *:Baldwin, his son,succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description.
  • To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:a church with windows only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times
  • Derived terms

    * reporter * underreport

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject.
  • A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 16 , author=Denis Campbell , title=Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report , which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.}}
  • (ballistics ) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
  • * 1851 ,
  • While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
  • * 1883:
  • ...a pistol-shot, flash and report , came from the hedge-side.
  • an employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager
  • Derived terms

    * (piece of information) on report, report card * (employee) direct report, indirect report

    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.
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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), 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.)

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