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Reviewer

Definitions: Reviewer

Reviewer

Noun

1. Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication.

2. A writer who reports and analyzes events of the day.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reviewer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Reviewer

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

REVIEWER, The Book, he is the fellow who said a chef-d'oeuvre like Who Was Who should be used for ballast. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

Occupations

Reviews insurance applications to ensure that all questions have been answered. Corresponds with sales personnel to inform them of status of application being processed, and to encourage prompt delivery of policies to policyholders. May collect initial premiums and issue receipts. May compile periodic reports on new business for management. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Reviewer

Synonyms: commentator (n), reader (n), referee (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reviewer

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Judgment

Censor, reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator; inspector, inspecting officer.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Reviewer

Specialty definitions using "reviewer": APPEALS REVIEWER, VETERANbullschildtCHART CALCULATOR, CORELLIfinal-application reviewerPOLICY-VALUE CALCULATORRATE REVIEWER, REVIEWERtouring counselor, TRAVEL COUNSELOR, AUTOMOBILE CLUB, traveling clerkZANY. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Reviewer

DomainTitle

Books

  • Documenting Physical Therapy: The Reviewer Perspective (reference)

  • Guidelines for Reviewer Rheumatic Disease Care (reference)

  • Political Science Reviewer (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Reviewer Guidelines For The Accreditation Of Managed Care Organizations - Cat# 10005 (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Reviewer

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Usage Frequency: Reviewer

"Reviewer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.06% of the time. "Reviewer" is used about 212 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.06%21020,939
Noun (proper)0.94%2245,945
                    Total100.00%212N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Reviewer

Expression using "reviewer": book reviewer. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reviewer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  book reviewer

25

  become book reviewer

3

  movie reviewer

17

  job movie reviewer

3

  dvd reviewer

13

  music reviewer

3

  reviewer roger

10

  become a movie reviewer

2

  reviewer

9

  book pay reviewer seeking site that

2

  from hell mutant reviewer

7

  citizenship reviewer

2

  hulk puny reviewer smash

6

  nclex reviewer

2

  grant reviewer

6

  peer reviewer

2

  game reviewer

4

  hardware reviewer

2

  book job reviewer

4

  medical reviewer site

2

  ece reviewer

3

  nursing reviewer

2

  reviewer upcat

3

  game job reviewer

2

  restaurant reviewer

3

  book reviewer wanted

2

  nurse reviewer

3

  government peer reviewer us

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reviewer

Language Translations for "reviewer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

recensues (reader). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ناقد أدبي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

рецензент (referee), критик (critic). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

評論家 (critic), 评论者. (various references)

   

Czech

  

recenzent, posuzovatel, kritik (critic). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

منقدادبی , بازبین گر. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

arvostelija (critic). (various references)

   

French

  

vérificatrice, préposé à la vérification des commandes, critique (review). (various references)

   

German

  

kritiker (censors, critic, critics, detractor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βιβλιοκριτήσ (book reviewer). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מבקר ספרותי, סוקר (scanner). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bíráló (appraising, censorious, critical, holder, nagging). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penyorot (commentator, projector, reflector), pengulas. (various references)

   

Italian

  

recensore, critico (climacteric, critic, critical, crucial, judge). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

評者 (critic), レバレッジ効果 (left, left wing, leverage effect, referee, referee's position, reference, reference book, reference service, reflector, reflex camera, repertoire, repertory, repertory system, review, revue). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

レビューワー , ひょうしゃ (critic). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

비평가 (Critic). (various references)

   

Manx

  

baghteyr (criticizer, surveyor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eviewerray

   

Portuguese

  

crítico (argumentative, assailant, climacteric, critic, critical, crucial, serious). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

referent (reader), redactor (editor, reader, redactor, sub-editor, writer), recenzent (reader), critic literar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рецензент (critic), обозреватель (columnist, observer). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

recezent, prikazivač. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

crítico (alarming, censor, censorious, critic, critical, grave, knocker, serious, vital). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

recensent (critic, critik). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

eleştirmen (commentator, corrector, critic, reader), eleştirici (argumentative, assailant, assailer, censorious, critic, critical, faultfinder, faultfinding, judicial, uncomplimentary). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

критик (critic), оглядач (analyst, columnist, observer). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

adolygydd, adolygwr. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reviewer

Derivations

Words beginning with "reviewer": reviewers. (additional references)

Words ending with "reviewer": previewer. (additional references)

Words containing "reviewer": previewers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Reviewer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: previewer, reveiver, reviewe, reviewee. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reviewer"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "reviewer" (pronounced rēvyuw"er)
4-v y uw" erviewer.
3-y uw" erewer, fewer, Hewer, skewer.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reviewer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rereview.

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-r-r-v-w"

-1 letter: reverie.

-2 letters: eerier, reiver, revere, review, rewire, riever, verier, viewer, weever.

-3 letters: eerie, reeve, reive, river, wirer, wiver, wrier.

-4 letters: ever, ewer, rive, veer, vier, view, weer, weir, were, wire, wive.

-5 letters: ere, err, eve, ewe, ire, ree, rei, rev, vee, vie, wee.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-r-r-v-w"
 

+1 letter: prereview, previewer, rereviews, reviewers.

 

+2 letters: previewers, rereviewed.

 

+3 letters: interviewer, reinterview, rereviewing.

 

+4 letters: interviewers, overwintered, preinterview, reinterviews.

 

+5 letters: preinterviews, reinterviewed, whithersoever.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reviewer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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