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revert
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)
- One who, or that which, reverts.
- (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].
- 2010, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250 (page 77)
- (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.
- 1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons, page 27:
- (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)
- (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.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (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
- Convert his gyves to graces
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- (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, 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.
- 1995, Wiz?rat al-I?l?m wa-al-Thaq?fah, Sudanow: Volume 20
- (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
- (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
revert From the web:
evert
English
Etymology
From Late Latin ?vertere (“to turn (an item of clothing) inside out”), Latin ?vertere, present active infinitive of ?vert? (“to turn upside down; to overturn; to reverse”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’)) + vert? (“to reverse; to revolve, turn; to turn around”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??v??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /i?v?t/, /?-/
Verb
evert (third-person singular simple present everts, present participle everting, simple past and past participle everted)
- (transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
- (transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
- (transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To disrupt; to overthrow.
Usage notes
Not to be confused with avert.
Conjugation
Related terms
- everse
- eversion
- everted (adjective)
Translations
References
Anagrams
- revet, terve
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