revert
IPA: rɪvˈɝt
noun
- One who, or that which, reverts.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
verb
- (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
- (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally India, now also, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive, mathematics) 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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Examples of "revert" in Sentences
- I would like revert from the French disparagement duly justified, of course back to intellectual property rights.
- The problem with this simple solution is that when you close the drawing and re-open it, the labels revert back to question marks.
- Both Leeds and Liverpool had games in hand, which had they converted would have seen the title revert to a more traditional mantelpiece.
- When the evidence was too clearly against Buckley, he would again revert to sexual innuendo, attacks on Myra, and finally Bobby Kennedy.
- Now first of all, we have - and I again revert to the military metaphor - recruitment, so as to encourage membership in the peace associations.
- Finding out later that the raw averages actually go the other way, and only after running controls do the results revert, is simply not satisfying. —
- But savvy investors know that cyclical companies 'profits mean-revert, which is why cyclical stocks' P / E multiples stay low during booms and high during busts.
- Habari superglobal. php (revision 3563) 11 class SuperGlobal extends ArrayIterator 12 {29 public static function process_gps () 30 {31/* We should only revert the magic quotes once per page hit */32 static $revert = true; 33 34 if (!
- Pond,578 your glance would not revert from the scene quit of wonder; for nowhere would you behold the fellow of that lovely view; and, indeed, the two arms of the Nile embrace most luxuriant verdure,579 as the white of the eye encompasseth its black or like filigreed silver surrounding chrysolites.
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