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Review vs. Confirm — What's the Difference?

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Review

A review is an evaluation of a publication, service, or company such as a movie (a movie review), video game (video game review), musical composition (music review of a composition or recording), book (book review); a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or softwares such as business software, sales softwares; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert, play, musical theater show, dance show or art exhibition. In addition to a critical evaluation, the review's author may assign the work a rating to indicate its relative merit.

Confirm

To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify
Confirm a rumor.

Review

To look over, study, or examine again
Reviewed last week's lesson.

Confirm

To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).

Review

To consider retrospectively; look back on
Reviewed the day's events.
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Confirm

To make firmer; strengthen
Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.

Review

To examine with an eye to criticism or correction
Reviewed the research findings.

Confirm

To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.

Review

To write or give a critical report on (a new work or performance, for example).

Confirm

To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.

Review

(Law) To evaluate (a decision made by or action taken by a lower court) to determine whether any error was made.

Confirm

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

Review

To subject to a formal inspection, especially a military inspection.

Confirm

To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

Review

To go over or restudy material
Reviewing for a final exam.

Confirm

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

Review

To write critical reviews, especially for a newspaper or magazine.

Confirm

To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.

Review

A reexamination or reconsideration.

Confirm

To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolveAdam shall share with me in bliss or woe.

Review

A retrospective view or survey.

Confirm

To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.

Review

A restudying of subject matter.

Confirm

To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed.

Review

An exercise for use in restudying material.

Confirm

To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.

Review

A report or essay giving a critical estimate of a work or performance.

Confirm

Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
His story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant

Review

A periodical devoted to articles and essays on current affairs, literature, or art.

Confirm

Strengthen or make more firm;
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account

Review

An inspection or examination for the purpose of evaluation.

Confirm

Make more firm;
Confirm thy soul in self-control!

Review

A formal military inspection.

Confirm

As of a person to a position;
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense

Review

A formal military ceremony held in honor of a person or occasion.

Confirm

Administer the rite of confirmation to;
The children were confirmed in their mother's faith

Review

(Law) An evaluation conducted by a higher court of a decision made or action taken by a lower court to determine whether any error was made.

Review

A musical show consisting of often satirical skits, songs, and dances; a revue.

Review

A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.

Review

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.

Review

(legal) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
The victims demanded a full judicial review of the case.

Review

A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.

Review

A survey of the available items or material.
The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.

Review

A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
The Times Literary Review is published in London.

Review

A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.

Review

A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.

Review

To survey; to look broadly over.
Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.

Review

To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
The critic reviews every new play in London.

Review

To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.

Review

To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.

Review

(obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.

Review

(obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.

Review

To view or see again; to look back on.

Review

To go over and examine critically or deliberately.

Review

To retrace; to go over again.
Shall I the long, laborious scene review?

Review

To look back; to make a review.

Review

A second or repeated view; a reëxamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.

Review

An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.

Review

A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.

Review

A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

Review

An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.

Review

The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.

Review

A lesson studied or recited for a second time.

Review

A new appraisal or evaluation

Review

An essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)

Review

A subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment

Review

(accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data

Review

A variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians

Review

A periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art

Review

A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion

Review

(law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)

Review

Practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory

Review

A formal or official examination;
The platoon stood ready for review
We had to wait for the inspection before we could use the elevator

Review

Look at again; examine again;
Let's review your situation

Review

Appraise critically;
She reviews books for the New York Times
Please critique this performance

Review

Hold a review (of troops)

Review

Refresh one's memory;
I reviewed the material before the test

Review

Look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events, etc.); remember;
She reviewed her achievements with pride

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