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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:
revise
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin rev?sere, from re- + v?sere (“examine”), frequentative of vid?re (“see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???va??z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
Verb
revise (third-person singular simple present revises, present participle revising, simple past and past participle revised)
- (obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.
- To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.
- This statute should be revised.
- 1951, Maulana Muhammad Ali, Preface to the Revised Edition, The Holy Quran: English Translation and Commentary, 2011, unnumbered page,
- There has been a demand for a revised edition of my English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Qur?an since the end of the Second World War.
- 1983, Willard Scott Thompson, Chapter 1: The Third World Revisited, Willard Scott Thompson (editor), The Third World: Premises of U.S. Policy, Revised edition, page 15,
- The chapter that deals specifically with singular examples is Daniel Pipes? revised study of the Third World peoples of Soviet Central Asia.
- 2008, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research, 3rd edition, University of Chicago Press, page 203,
- The best writers know better. They write a first draft not to show readers, but to discover what case they can make for their point and whether it stands up to their own scrutiny. Then they revise and revise until they think their readers will think so too.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
- I should be revising for my exam in a few days.
- 1957, Clifford Thomas Morgan, James Deese, How to Study, McGraw-Hill, page 16,
- In revising your notes, you can also reorganize them so that they are more legible, better arranged, and in a more useful condition for subsequent reviews.
- 2003, Stuart Redman, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 5,
- 4 Is it necessary to revise vocabulary (= study it again for a second or third time)?
- 5 Is it better to revise vocabulary occasionally for long periods of time, or is it better to revise regularly for short periods of time?
- 2008, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, Chapter 19: How to build your memory and revise effectively, Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University, SAGE Publications, UK, page 273.
Synonyms
- (review, edit and amend):
- (look over again): review
Related terms
- revision
Translations
Noun
revise (plural revises)
- A review or a revision.
- (printing) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
- 1837, Anthony Panizzi, A letter to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Institution Now in the Press, page 30,
- The question is, not whether the revises of the Catalogue, which I was obliged to circulate prematurely, were faultless, but whether the alterations which I was desired to make would not render them worse.
- 1869 August 16, Anthony Trollope, letter to W. H. Bradbury, 1983, N. John Hall (editor), The Letters of Anthony Trollope, Volume 1: 1835-1870, page 479,
- Looking back at the revises of Bullhampton it seems to me that the printers have fallen into some error as to the numbering of Chapters XXXIV—XXXV—XXXVI—which should have been XXXV—XXXVI— and XXXVII.
- 1917, United States Congress: House Committee on Rules, Alleged Divulgence of President?s note to Belligerent Powers, page 1440,
- I still held the revises; kept them until the type was made up and went to the press, for final page proof.
- 1997, David Lodge, The Practice of Writing, 2011, page 219,
- […] until I had corrected the proofs of the novel and seen the revises, so that the text was irrevocably fixed, before beginning the screenplay.
- 1837, Anthony Panizzi, A letter to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, on the New Catalogue of the Library of that Institution Now in the Press, page 30,
Translations
See also
- revisable
- revisal
- reviser
- revisory
- revision
- revisionism
- revisionist
Anagrams
- Rieves, Sevier, reives, revies, rieves, siever
Latin
Verb
rev?se
- second-person singular present active imperative of rev?s?
Portuguese
Verb
revise
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of revisar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of revisar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of revisar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of revisar
Spanish
Verb
revise
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of revisar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of revisar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of revisar.
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