REVIEWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reviewer mean? 

• REVIEWER (noun)
  The noun REVIEWER has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: REVIEWER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVIEWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

reader; referee; reviewer

Hypernyms ("reviewer" is a kind of...):

critic (anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reviewer"):

scanner (someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables)

Derivation:

review (appraise critically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A writer who reports and analyzes events of the day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

commentator; reviewer

Hypernyms ("reviewer" is a kind of...):

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Derivation:

review (look at again; examine again)

 Context examples 

It is anticipated this change will reduce the administrative burden for the applicants, their institutions and the reviewers of the application.

(Just-in-time-concept, NCI Thesaurus)

The process by which specimens are sent to a central lab for confirmatory analysis using standardized methods and result criteria in order to minimize inter-reviewer differences thereby improving the accuracy of pathology data.

(Central Pathology Review, NCI Thesaurus)

"In fact, the computer analysis of the images was better at identifying precancer than a human expert reviewer of Pap tests under the microscope (cytology)."

(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)

And after them come the reviewers, just so many more failures.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The number of reviewers, the reviewing procedures and criteria, and the use made of the reviewers' opinions may vary, and therefore each reviewing organization/committee has to publicly disclose its policies.

(Peer-reviewed Scientific Project, NCI Thesaurus)

Mechanism to fund single project applications in patient oriented or basic research near the payline and for which reviewer criticisms can be addressed quickly.

(Accelerated Executive Review, NCI Thesaurus)

Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But you know my opinion on the reviewers and the alleged critics.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Pecking at star-dust," Martin took up the strain warmly; "at the meteoric flight of the master-men. I once wrote a squib on them—the critics, or the reviewers, rather."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)