Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
REVIEW
I. noun see: view
Date: 15th century
1. a formal military inspection, a military ceremony honoring a person or an event, revision 1a, a general survey (as of the events of a period), an act or the process of reviewing, judicial reexamination (as of the proceedings of a lower tribunal by a higher),
6. a critical evaluation (as of a book or play), a magazine devoted chiefly to reviews and essays,
7. a retrospective view or survey (as of one's life), b. renewed study of material previously studied, an exercise facilitating such study, revue ,
II. verb
Etymology: in sense 1 of verb t., from re- + view; in other senses, from 1review
Date: 1576
transitive verb to view or see again, to examine or study again, to look back on ; take a retrospective view of ,
4. to go over or examine critically or deliberately , to give a critical evaluation of , to hold a review of , intransitive verb to study material again ; make a review , to write reviews, reviewable adjective