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revert.

One who, or that which, reverts.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t//ɹiːˈvɜː(ɹ)t//ˈɹiːˌvɜːt/
  1. One who, or that which, reverts.

  2. One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.

  3. A convert to Islam.

  4. 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.
  5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.

Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-etor Proto-Indo-European *wértetor Proto-Italic *wertō Latin vertō Latin revertor Old French revertirbor. English revert From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.

verb/ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t//ɹiːˈvɜː(ɹ)t//ˈɹiːˌvɜːt/
  1. To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

    archaic · transitive
  2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

  3. To cause to return to a former condition.

    transitive
  4. To reverse (a change).

    transitive
  5. To reverse a change made by (a person).

    transitive
  6. To return to the possession of.

    intransitive
    When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
  7. To return to the possession of. Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

    intransitive
  8. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

    transitive
    Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
  9. To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

    intransitive
  10. To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

    intransitive
  11. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

    intransitive
    Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
  12. To take up again or return to a previous topic.

    intransitive · nonstandard
  13. To return; to come back.

    archaic · intransitive
    If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
  14. To convert to Islam.

    intransitive
  15. To reply (to correspondence, etc.).

    intransitive
    Please revert before Monday.
  16. 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.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-etor Proto-Indo-European *wértetor Proto-Italic *wertō Latin vertō Latin revertor Old French revertirbor. English revert From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.

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