revert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rə-vûrtʹ
enpr: rĭ-vûrtʹ
enpr: rē-vûrtʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɝt/
ipa: /ɹiˈvɝt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːt/
enpr: rēʹvûrt'
ipa: /ˈɹiˌvɝt/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌvɜːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
rhymes: -iːvɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: reverts
form: reverting
form: reverted
form: reverted
Etymology: From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
Senses: examples: text: Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
ref: c. 1700, Matthew Prior, A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus:
text: The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
glosses: To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
examples: text: Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes / Too ſlightly timbred for ſo loud a Winde, / Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe, / And not where I had arm’d them.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], page 275, column 2:
glosses: To cause to return to a former condition.
examples: text: This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level.
ref: 1998, Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Steven Black, Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0, page 826:
text: You can use page histories to easily revert (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit.
ref: 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 82:
text: When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.
ref: 2008, Kidd, Terry T., Chen, Irene, Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, page 261:
glosses: To reverse (a change).
examples: text: When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.
ref: 2008, Kidd, Terry T., Chen, Irene, Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, page 261:
text: She has, in other words, two beliefs: βc (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she cooperated) and βr (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she :Template:..
ref: 2014, Simon DeDeo, “Group minds and the case of Wikipedia”, in Human Computation:
glosses: To reverse a change made by (a person).
examples: text: When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
glosses: To return to the possession of.
topics: law
glosses: To return to the possession of.
Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
examples: text: Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
glosses: To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
examples: text: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
examples: text: Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
glosses: To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
synonyms: hark back
glosses: To take up again or return to a previous topic.
examples: text: If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
glosses: To return; to come back.
examples: text: He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam.
ref: 1995, Wizārat al-Iʻlām wa-al-Thaqāfah, “Sudanow”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 20:
text: The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.
ref: 1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons:
text: But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life.
ref: 2003, Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumuʻah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: To convert to Islam.
examples: text: Please revert before Monday.
synonyms: revert back
qualifier: now global
glosses: To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
examples: text: First we revert the series expansion (3.6) to give z(#92;zeta) as a series in z.
ref: 1990, George A. Baker, Jr.; J. D. Johnson, “Thomas-Fermi Equation of State - The Hot Curve”, in Valdir C. Aguilera-Navarro, editor, Condensed Matter Theories, volume 5, →ISBN, page 5:
text: To express z as a power series of n#92;lambda³, we first expand g#95;#123;3#47;2#125;(z) in z […] We then revert the power series to express z in terms of n#92;lambda³.
ref: 2005, Frank Y. Wang, Physics with MAPLE: The Computer Algebra Resource for Mathematical Methods in Physics, →ISBN, pages 518–9:
text: We can revert the series expansion of #92;langlen#92;rangle#92;lambda³#95;T#47;g […] and obtain a series expansion for the fugacity z in terms of #92;langlen#92;rangle#92;lambda³#95;T#47;g, […]
ref: 2016, Linda E. Reichl, A Modern Course in Statistical Physics, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 218:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
Derived terms: sense: a return to a previous state
word: reversion
word: revert back
word: reverter
word: revertible
word: revertive