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Reverse (adjective)
Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction. from 14th c.
“We ate the meal in reverse order, starting with dessert and ending with the starter.”
“The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.”
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Reverse (adjective)
Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction. from 19th c.
“He selected reverse gear.”
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Reverse (adjective)
To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
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Reverse (adjective)
Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
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Reverse (adjective)
Reversed.
“a reverse shell”
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Reverse (adjective)
In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
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Reverse (adverb)
In a reverse way or direction; upside-down. from 14thc.
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Reverse (noun)
The opposite of something. from 14th c.
“We believed the Chinese weren’t ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true.”
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Reverse (noun)
The act of going backwards; a reversal. from 15th c.
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Reverse (noun)
A piece of misfortune; a setback. from 16th c.
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Reverse (noun)
The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse. from 17th c.
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Reverse (noun)
The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side. from 18th c.
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Reverse (noun)
The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. from 19th c.
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Reverse (noun)
A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
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Reverse (noun)
A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
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Reverse (verb)
To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
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Reverse (verb)
To turn something inside out or upside down.
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Reverse (verb)
To transpose the positions of two things.
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Reverse (verb)
To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
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Reverse (verb)
To return, come back.
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Reverse (verb)
To turn away; to cause to depart.
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Reverse (verb)
To cause to return; to recall.
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Reverse (verb)
To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
“to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree”
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Reverse (verb)
To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
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Reverse (verb)
To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
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Reverse (verb)
To place a set of points in the reverse position
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Reverse (verb)
to move from the normal position to the reverse position
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Reverse (verb)
To overthrow; to subvert.
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Revert (noun)
One who, or that which, reverts.
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Revert (noun)
One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
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Revert (noun)
A convert to Islam.
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Revert (noun)
The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
“We’ve found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.”
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Revert (verb)
To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
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Revert (verb)
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
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Revert (verb)
To cause to return to a former condition.
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Revert (verb)
To return; to come back.
“If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.”
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Revert (verb)
To return to the possession of.
“When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.”
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Revert (verb)
To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
“Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.”
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Revert (verb)
To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
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Revert (verb)
To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
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Revert (verb)
To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
“Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.”
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Revert (verb)
To take up again or return to a previous topic.
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Revert (verb)
To convert to Islam.
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Revert (verb)
To reply (to correspondence, for example).
“Please revert before Monday.”
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Revert (verb)
To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + …, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.