Sekirov Dictionary

revert

/ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t/

verb 16
noun 5
forms 4
phrases 1

verb16

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To cause to return to a former condition.
- Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes / Too slightly timbred for so loud a Winde, / Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe, / And not where I had arm’d them. — 1599
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To reverse (a change).
- This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level. — 1998
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To reverse a change made by (a person).
- When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too. — 2008
To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
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To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
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To return to the possession of.
- When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
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To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
To take up again or return to a previous topic.
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To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- Please revert before Monday.
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To convert to Islam.
- 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
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.
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
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(no longer used) To return; to come back.
- If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
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(no longer used) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
- Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene. — 1700

noun5

One who, or that which, reverts.
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One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- [...] 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
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A convert to Islam.
- 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
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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.
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The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […] — 2007

forms

reverted · reverting · reverteth · reverts

Phrases with revert

revert back
To reply, respond.

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