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REVERT
revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
(verb) go back to a previous state; “We reverted to the old rules”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
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
(Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
(computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
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.
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
(transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
(intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
(intransitive) To return to the possession of.
(intransitive, legal) 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.
(intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally, India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
(transitive, math) 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.
Anagrams
• Verret
Source: Wiktionary
Re*vert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverting.] Etym: [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.]
1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. Thomson.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. (Chem.)
Definition: To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
Re*vert", v. i.
1. To return; to come back. So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. Shak.
2. (Law)
Definition: To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
3. (Biol.)
Definition: To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
4. (Chem.)
Definition: To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
Re*vert", n.
Definition: One who, or that which, reverts. An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. Fuller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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