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# critique

«critique» in Mova's school dictionary: **A careful written judgement of a book, play or work…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (critique, critiques); verb (critique, critiques, critiqued, critiquing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A careful written judgement of a book, play or work, saying what is good and what is weak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critique/#m1)

2) (verb) To judge and comment on something in this careful way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critique/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories and school talk, a careful opinion of a book or work, saying good and bad points

### examples

- The teacher wrote a critique of my story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critique/#x1)
- Her critique of the play was fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critique/#x2)
- We critiqued each other's poems in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critique/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «critique» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critique/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.