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