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Etymology
From Old French revers, from Latin reversus (past participle of revertere)
Adjective
reverse (comparative more reverse, superlative most reverse)
- Having the order of its constituents moved backwards in time or space.
- We ate the meal in reverse order with the dessert first and ending with the starter.
- The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.
- Causing movement in the opposite direction.
- He selected reverse gear.
- (rail transport, of points) to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
Antonyms
- (rail transport): normal
Derived terms
Noun
reverse (plural reverses)
- The opposite of front.
- The opposite of forward.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
Translations
opposite of front
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Verb
to reverse (third-person singular simple present reverses, present participle reversing, simple past and past participle reversed)
- (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
- (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
- (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- Bene they all dead, and laid in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction.
- (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
Derived terms
- to reverse out
- bootlegger reverse
- reversal noun
Antonyms
Translations
to turn something around
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʁə.vɛʁs/
Verb
reverse
- first-person singular present indicative of reverser.
- third-person singular present indicative of reverser.
- first-person singular present subjunctive of reverser.
- first-person singular present subjunctive of reverser.
- second-person singular imperative of reverser.
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