reverse
/ɹɪˈvɜːs/
Dictionary
noun
- The opposite of something.
"We believed the Chinese weren't ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true."
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
verb
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
"to reverse a portion of video footage"
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To return, come back.
- To turn away; to cause to depart.
- To cause to return; to recall.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
"to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree"
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To place a set of points in the reverse position
- (of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
- To overthrow; to subvert.
adjective
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
"The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene."
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
"He selected reverse gear."
- (of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- Reversed.
"a reverse shell"
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
adverb
- In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.
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