revert
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
biology
computing
engineering
law
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
religion
sciences
Etymology: From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
Inflected forms:
form: reverts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reverts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reverting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reverted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reverted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, reverts.
pos: noun
gloss: One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
pos: noun
examples: [...] Cyril III ibn Laqlaq’s correspondence which reflects genuine—if intentionally vague—concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts [who had converted to Islam before].
gloss: A convert to Islam.
pos: noun
examples: Zeba Siddiqui, herself a revert and editor of the Parent's Manual: A Guide for Muslim Parents Living in North America, contributed to this book as a consultant.
Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.
gloss: The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
pos: noun
examples: We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
gloss: The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
pos: noun
examples: In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]
gloss: To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.
gloss: To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause to return to a former condition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To reverse (a change).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level.
You can use page histories to easily revert (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit.
When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.
gloss: To reverse a change made by (a person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.
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:..
gloss: To return to the possession of.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
gloss: To return to the possession of.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
gloss: To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
gloss: To take up again or return to a previous topic.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To return; to come back.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
gloss: To convert to Islam.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.
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.
gloss: To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Please revert before Monday.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: First we revert the series expansion (3.6) to give z(#92;zeta) as a series in z.
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.
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, […]
Synonyms: deconvert
reconvert
rehabilitate
restitute
restore
revert
roll back
Antonyms: convert
Related words: undo
Derived words: revert war
three-revert rule
reversion
revertability
revertable
revertase
revert back
revertee
revertent
reverter
revertible
revertive
serorevert
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: взимам обратно
roman: vzimam obratno
lang: Finnish
word: palata
lang: Finnish
word: palautua
lang: Occitan
word: tornar
lang: Occitan
word: retornar
lang: Bulgarian
word: връщам
roman: vrǎštam
lang: Finnish
word: palauttaa