different between reversal vs lurch

English

Etymology

reverse +? -al.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

reversal (countable and uncountable, plural reversals)

1. The state of being reversed.
2. An instance of reversing.
3. A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.

Usage notes

Reversal of trains often takes place at a terminus, where the driver walks to the cab at the other end of the train; if hauled by a locomotive, that moves to the other end if the train if the train has no driving cab at the other end.

Synonyms

• reversion

Translations

Adjective

reversal (not comparable)

1. Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

   • For after his death there were reversal letters found among his papers from the Duke of Anjou

Derived terms

• reversalism
• reversalist
• reversality
• reversally

Anagrams

• ravelers, slaverer

Spanish

Adjective

reversal (plural reversales)

1. used to describe a type of diplomatic note

Usage notes

• It is used almost exclusively in the terms carta reversal or nota reversal

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: lûrch, IPA^(key): /l?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?

Etymology 1

Originally a nautical term, possibly from French lacher (“to let go”).

Noun

lurch (plural lurches)

1. A sudden or unsteady movement.

   the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.

Translations

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

1. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

Translations

See also

• leave someone in the lurch
• Lurch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Etymology 2

From Latin lurc?re.

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

1. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building

     Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.

Etymology 3

From French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt.

Noun

lurch (countable and uncountable, plural lurches)

1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
   • August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway

     Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.

   • Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
4. (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lurch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• churl