noun
Meaning 1
One who, or that which, reverts.
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noun
One who, or that which, reverts.
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noun
One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
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Topics: lifestyle, religion
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noun
A convert to Islam.
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Qualifier: ideologically loaded; due to the belief that all people are born Muslim; ideologically loaded; due to the belief that all people are born Muslim
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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noun
The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
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verb
To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
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Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
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verb
To cause to return to a former condition.
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Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: restore, roll back
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verb
To reverse (a change).
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Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: undo
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verb
To reverse a change made by (a person).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To return to the possession of.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
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.
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Usage: intransitive
Topics: law
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verb
To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
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Usage: transitive
Synonyms: give back, restore, reinstate, render, return, revest, surrender
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verb
To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
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Usage: intransitive
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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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Usage: intransitive
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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verb
To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To take up again or return to a previous topic.
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Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: hark back
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verb
To return; to come back.
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Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
To convert to Islam.
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Usage: intransitive
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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verb
To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
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Usage: intransitive
Qualifier: now global
Synonyms: revert back
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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.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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verb
undergo reversion, as in a mutation
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Broader terms: mutate
verb
go back to a previous state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: return, retrovert, regress, turn back
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Broader terms: change by reversal, turn, reverse
Narrower terms: relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back, resile, recover, go back, recuperate
History
From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
Across languages
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