different between reveal vs revert

English

Etymology

From Middle English revelen (“to reveal”), from Middle French reveler, from Old French, from Latin revelare (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + velare (“to cover”), from velum (“veil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???vi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Hyphenation: re?veal

Noun

reveal (plural reveals)

1. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
   • 2010, Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book:

     The building has a one-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a doorman beneath an attractive, rusticated limestone window reveal on the second floor and a very impressive and ornate limestone window reveal on the third floor flanked by female figures[1].

2. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.

   The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.
3. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.

Quotations

• 2001, Nicholas Proferes, Film Directing Fundamentals [3]

  The reveal is a narrative/dramatic element so pervasive that its power can be underestimated by the beginning filmmaker because, in a sense, each shot reveals something.

• 2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography [4]

  A simple dolly or crane move can be used for an effective reveal. A subject fills the frame, then with a move, something else is revealed.

• 2004, Fred Karlin, On the Track [5]

  Look for the reveal of the ghosts hanging in the school hallway (00:57:27); [...]

Synonyms

• (side of a window or door opening): revel
• (side of a window or door opening): jamb

Verb

reveal (third-person singular simple present reveals, present participle revealing, simple past and past participle revealed)

1. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
   • c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero

     Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
2. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

Synonyms

• (to show): uncover, unfold, unveil; see also Thesaurus:reveal
• (communicate): disclose, divulge; see also Thesaurus:divulge

Derived terms

• revealed religion
• revelation

Translations

Anagrams

• Leaver, laveer, leaver, vealer

English

Etymology

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *reverti?, variant of Latin revert?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: r?-vûrt?, r?-vûrt?, r?-vûrt?, IPA^(key): /???v?t/, /?i?v?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v??t/
• (one who reverts to a religion, one who converts to Islam):
  • (General American) enPR: r??vûrt', IPA^(key): /??i?v?t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?v??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t, -i?v??(?)t
• Hyphenation: re?vert

Noun

revert (plural reverts)

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
   • 2010, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250 (page 77)

     [...] 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].

3. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
   • 1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons, page 27:

     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.
4. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

   We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

Translations

Verb

revert (third-person singular simple present reverts, present participle reverting, simple past and past participle reverted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
   • c. 1700, Matthew Prior, A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus

     Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.

   • The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.

2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
4. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

     Convert his gyves to graces
     so that my arrows,
     Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind
     Would have reverted to my bow again

5. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
   1. (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
6. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

7. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
8. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
9. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

10. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
11. (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
    • 1995, Wiz?rat al-I?l?m wa-al-Thaq?fah, Sudanow: Volume 20

      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.
12. (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).

13. (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.

Derived terms

• (a return to a previous state): reversion
• reverter
• revertible
• revertive

Translations

Anagrams

• Verret