Word Finder - reverse

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The opposite of something.

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We believed the Chinese weren't ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true.

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The act of going backwards; a reversal.

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A piece of misfortune; a setback.

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The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.

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The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.

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The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.

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A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.

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A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

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To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.

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to reverse a portion of video footage

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To turn something inside out or upside down.

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To transpose the positions of two things.

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To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

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To return, come back.

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To turn away; to cause to depart.

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To cause to return; to recall.

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To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.

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to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree

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To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.

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To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.

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To place a set of points in the reverse position

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(of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position

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To overthrow; to subvert.

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Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.

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The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.

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Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.

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He selected reverse gear.

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(of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.

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Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.

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Reversed.

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a reverse shell

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In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.

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In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.

If only she could reverse this day and start over.

After another reverse on the east side of the Gulf of Darien Ojeda returned to Hispaniola and died there.

The reverse is true as well.

He gave no thought to how he'd reverse the process and return to the ledge above.

Katie didn't reply, gaping at a woman in her sixties with enough diamonds to reverse world hunger.

The reverse series of transformations occurs when this final modification is heated.

Yully faced him, unable to pull his power without touching him or reverse the drain he had on her.

The net effect of the surrounding land is, in fact, to reverse the seasonal variations of the planetary circulation, but without destroying its type.

All cables of any great length are worked by reverse currents.

This is quite the reverse of what is the rule in Burmese.

I made her a deal that expires in four days, thinking I could reverse the bond.

Hence for sending both a dot and a dash, reverse currents of short duration are sent through the line, but the interval between the reversal is three times as great for the dash as for the dot.

In the case of the dash the ink-wheel is brought into contact with the paper by the first current as before and is pulled back by the reverse current after three times the interval.

But why not reverse this order?

A few months later the great reverse of Chickamauga created an alarm in the North commensurate with the elation that had been felt at the double victory of Vicksburg and Gettysburg, and Grant was at once ordered to Chattanooga, to decide the fate of the Army of the Cumberland in a second battle.

The result is that the picture has no blank reverse.

After the Treaty of Paris stability of government developed, and many important reforms were introduced under the strong government of the masterful Sir Thomas Maitland; he acted promptly, without seeking popularity or fearing the reverse, and he ultimately gained more real respect than any other governor, not excepting the marquess of Hastings, who was a brilliant and sympathetic administrator.

We do this by using a technique called reverse osmosis which is a filtration process.

Many people like to argue the reverse, but do squirrels live in trees?

Put the car in reverse and, with a healthy dose of white smoke and tire squeal, perform a 180.

Only one thing can reverse the corporate takeover of Britain.

An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and if its army suffers a complete defeat the nation is quite subjugated.

The bard performed his tales in reverse chronological order for dramatic effect.

Of course, if she could reverse today, she could go back and reverse the accident.

For the dot the armature is deflected by the first current, the ink-wheel being brought into contact with the paper and after a short interval pulled back by the reverse current.

An embankment-bank, or fill, is the reverse of a cutting, being an artificial mound of earth on which the railway is taken across depressions in the surface of the ground.

On his deathbed it is said that Alexander advised his wife to reverse this policy and rely upon the Pharisees.

They don the sacerdotal garments, reverse side out.

Surface currents are set up by prevailing winds, which also seriously affect water levels, lowering the water at Chicago and raising it at the strait, or the reverse, so as greatly to inconvenience navigation.

A current will flow for a while in the reverse direction; the system of plates and acidulated water through which a current has been passed, acts as an accumulator, and will itself yield a current in return.

These phenomena are explained by the existence of a reverse electromotive force at the surface of the platinum plates.

Only when the applied electromotive force exceeds this reverse force of polarization, will a permanent steady current pass through the liquid, and visible chemical decomposition proceed.

It seems that this reverse electromotive force of polarization is due to the deposit on the electrodes of minute quantities of the products of chemical decomposition.

In the first, all affection phenomena are primarily divisible into those which are pleasurable and those which are the reverse.

When the two electrodes are ferro-magnetic, the direction of the current through the liquid is from the unmagnetized to the magnetized electrode, the latter being least attacked; with diamagnetic electrodes the reverse is the case.

He was an idealist; but his idealism was of a type the exact reverse of that which the Revolution in arms had sought to impose upon Europe.

The reverse is the case with the Lajos pap (Priest Lewis), by Charles Vajkay (1879), the secne of which is placed at Pest, in the beginning of the 14th century.

The reverse at Bakenlaagte was repaired by a force under Bruce Hamilton.

Flies, outnumbered by two to one, sustained a sharp reverse before the other columns closed in.

By the reverse action on the part of the same ferments in the cell, these neutral fats may be redissolved and pass into the.lacteals.

Burning the coal on a voyage has the reverse effect on a steamer.

The oximes permit the reverse change, i.e.

These reactions permit the transformation of an aldose into a ketose; the reverse change can only be brought about by reducing the ketose to an alcohol, and oxidizing this compound to an aldehyde.

The systematic washing of the massecuite is the reverse of this process.

The whole wide field of Jewish taboo naturally involves sacrilege as its reverse side.

The hake moves laterally on a quadrant and it is thus possible to give the plough a tendency to left or right by moving the hake in the reverse direction.

The excitement caused at Paris by an unimportant reverse of the French troops at Lang-son caused his downfall (30th of March 1885), but the treaty of peace with China (9th of June 1885) was his work.

This reverse set all Yemen aflame; under the leadership of the imam, who had, since the Turkish occupation, lived in retirement at Sada, 120 m.

The commonest reverse type, a charging horseman, reappears on the Roman coins of Bilbilis, Osca, Segobriga and other places.

In diplomacy William was as uniformly successful as in war he was the reverse.