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reverse
/ɹɪˈvɝs/
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What does reverse mean?
adjective
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
More meanings (28)
adjective
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- Reversed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
noun
- The opposite of something.
- 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. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.)
- 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.
- Synonym of transpose.
verb
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
- 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.
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- Ellipsis of reverse-engineer.
- (obsolete) To return, come back.
- (obsolete) To turn away; to cause to depart.
- (obsolete) To cause to return; to recall.
adverb
- (archaic) In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈvɝs/
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This is one of those refinements which, in practice, has an effect the reverse of what is expected from it in theory.
The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, had come about in the simplest possible manner.
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To Derues, on the eve of victory, the statement of Jolly in regard to the power of attorney was a serious reverse.
Now the very reverse is the case here, not only with regard to the principle, but the forms prescribed by the Constitution.
The tobacco habit is the reverse of manhood and destroys manhood, for manhood means strength of character, not the gratification of lust.