different between retrogress vs reverse

English

Etymology

From Latin retr?gressus, perfect active participle of retr?gradior (“retrograde”).

Verb

retrogress (third-person singular simple present retrogresses, present participle retrogressing, simple past and past participle retrogressed)

1. (intransitive) To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress.
2. (intransitive) To go backwards; to retreat.
3. (intransitive) To return to bad behaviour; to relapse.

Antonyms

• progress

Noun

retrogress (plural retrogresses)

1. A retrogression.

English

Etymology

From Middle English revers (noun, adjective}, reversen (verb), from Anglo-Norman revers (noun, adjective), reverser (verb), Middle French revers (noun, adjective), reverser (verb), and their source, Latin reversus (perfect passive participle), revers? (verb), from re- + vers?. Doublet of revers.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???v??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

reverse (not comparable)

1. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction. [from 14th c.]

2. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction. [from 19th c.]

3. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
4. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.

   • He found the sea diverse / With many a windy storm reverse.

5. (botany) Reversed.

6. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.

Antonyms

• (rail transport): normal

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

reverse (not comparable)

1. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down. [from 16^thc. (from the 14^thc. in Middle English)]
   • 1963, Donal Serrell Thomas, Points of Contact:

     The man was killed to feed his image fat / Within this pictured world that ran reverse, / Where miracles alone were ever plain.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:vice versa or Thesaurus:upside down

Noun

reverse (plural reverses)

1. The opposite of something. [from 14th c.]

2. The act of going backwards; a reversal. [from 15th c.]
   • 1808, Charles Lamb, Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare

     By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.

3. A piece of misfortune; a setback. [from 16th c.]
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 309:

     In fact, though the Russians did not yet know it, the British had met with a reverse.

4. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse. [from 17th c.]
5. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side. [from 18th c.]
6. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: reverse gear

7. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
8. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

reverse (third-person singular simple present reverses, present participle reversing, simple past and past participle reversed)

1. (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.

   to reverse the order of books on a shelf

   to reverse a portion of video footage

2. (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
   • 1672, William Temple, Essay on the Original and Nature of Government

     A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.

3. (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
4. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse?

6. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
8. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.

   to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree
9. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
10. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
11. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position
12. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
13. To overthrow; to subvert.
    • a. 1729, John Rogers, Conformity to the World destructive of our Happiness

      Custom […] reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.

14. (computing) Short for reverse-engineer.
    • 2011, Eldad Eilam, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

      Reversing is also heavily used in connection with malicious software, on both ends of the fence: […]

    • 2012, Christopher C. Elisan, Malware, Rootkits & Botnets: A Beginner's Guide (page 117)

      […] but in some instances where malware is proving to be difficult, reversing is needed.

Antonyms

• (to turn something in the opposite direction): unreverse
• (rail transport): normalise / normalize (transitive and intransitive)

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Reserve, Reveres, reserve, reveres, severer, veerers

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v??s/

Verb

reverse

1. first-person singular present indicative of reverser
2. third-person singular present indicative of reverser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of reverser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of reverser
5. second-person singular imperative of reverser

Anagrams

• réserve, réservé

Latin

Participle

reverse

1. vocative masculine singular of reversus

References

• reverse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [re?verse]

Verb

reverse

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of rev?rsa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of rev?rsa

Spanish

Verb

reverse

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reversar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reversar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reversar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reversar.