What's the difference between review and testimonial?

Review


Definition:

  • (n.) To view or see again; to look back on.
  • (n.) To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
  • (n.) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.
  • (n.) To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.
  • (n.) To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.
  • (n.) To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.
  • (n.) To retrace; to go over again.
  • (v. i.) To look back; to make a review.
  • (n.) A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.
  • (n.) An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.
  • (n.) A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.
  • (n.) A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.
  • (n.) A lesson studied or recited for a second time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (3) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (4) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (5) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
  • (6) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
  • (7) We present these cases and review the previously reported cases.
  • (8) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (9) Other approaches to the diagnosis of pancreatic pseudocysts are reviewed.
  • (10) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (11) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
  • (12) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
  • (13) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
  • (14) A review of campylobacter meningitis by Lee et al in 1985 reported nine cases occurring in neonates, of which only one case was caused by C. fetus.
  • (15) Anatomic and roentgenographic criteria used for the assessment of reduction in ankle fractures are highlighted in this review of ankle trauma.
  • (16) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
  • (17) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (18) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (19) We reviewed our experience with femorofemoral bypass during the past 10 years to define its role relative to other methods in the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease.
  • (20) We reviewed our 5-year surgical experience with undescended testes in 295 patients.

Testimonial


Definition:

  • (a.) A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing.
  • (a.) Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services rendered.
  • (a.) Relating to, or containing, testimony.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
  • (2) Ben Bernanke's testimony to the Senate: from here onwards .
  • (3) Psychiatric testimony to ultimate questions at law is limited by the inherent contextual variables of psychiatric clinical and experimental knowledge and practice.
  • (4) The west's recent military adventures bear testimony to that.
  • (5) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.
  • (6) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
  • (7) The police spokesman said the evidence considered included a testimony from a member of the public who witnessed the incident, footage supplied by the media, an interview with the man who was Tasered, footage from the video cameras worn by the attending officers and a statement from a safety trainer.
  • (8) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
  • (9) Pimps and clients are rarely punished and when prosecutors do manage to build a case against them, survivors often change their testimonies and the cases are thrown out, says Francisco Carlos Pereira de Andrade, a criminal prosecutor who specialises in child exploitation.
  • (10) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
  • (11) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
  • (12) After briefly discussing the limitations of expert testimony and the adversarial demands of the judicial system, the author concludes that the insanity defense should be retained but altered, and that psychiatrists should bear the burdens of advocating for the mentally ill.
  • (13) His videos make for compelling first-person testimony.
  • (14) Vance took a similar line in his own testimony, saying that hacking individual phones was far different from large-scale cybercrimes such as hacking into the Office of Personnel Management.
  • (15) Hinton’s defense lawyer wrongly thought he had only $1,000 to hire a ballistics expert to try to rebut the prosecution testimony about the bullets.
  • (16) He dissects Rowland’s testimony with the abstracted interest of a child operating on a fly with a pair of tweezers.
  • (17) And it is a perfect testimony to the fact that a highly evolved economic area such as ours can produce equally high environmental standards.” The EEA noted a “marked improvement” over recent decades in measurements of two bacteria, E coli and intestinal enterococci, which indicate faecal contamination of swimming waters by sewage and animals.
  • (18) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
  • (19) The individual features of these 18 cases are noted and distinguished, and the conclusions reached in the expert testimony set out.
  • (20) Andrews has been on the witness stand for two days, often giving tearful testimony about the fear and suffering she has gone through as a result of the stalking and the videos.