Word Finder - reversing

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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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An act of reversal.

The trip being completed, the empty train is hauled back by reversing the engine.

Clause 10 infringes the right to a fair trial by reversing the burden of proof.

After reversing the scoring for five negatively worded items, a total self-esteem score was obtained by summing the ten responses.

I also managed to completely smash in the driver 's side taillight whilst reversing into a tree.

Reversing the trends in climate change, pollution, non-renewable resource consumption and resource depletion require a vast majority of the population make changes in their daily lives.

Max Gerson, MD, spent 30 years reversing cancer (even advanced stages) with patients on raw foods.

Treatment methods can be highly effective at reversing some of these conditions.

Anti-rollback devices to prevent a coaster from reversing down the track.

Fortunately, the Prince will get access to "Recall" the famous reversing time option that allows you to move back a few seconds to allow you to correct a mistake.

Colchicine is also effective in preventing, delaying, or reversing kidney disease associated with amyloidosis.

When positional molding is identified at less than three months of age, repositioning is usually successful in stopping the plagiocephaly and reversing the flattening.

Garage doors should have electric openers that have an automatic reversing mechanism to prevent the door from closing on a child.

Dextromethorphan has been reported to be effective in reversing some of the adverse effects of methotrexate, a drug that has found use in many conditions including cancer, psoriasis, and some types of arthritis.

Reversing either a tubal ligation or a vasectomy is a much more complicated procedure than having either one done in the first place.

Reversing a vasectomy is a much more complicated operation.

Getting one's tubes tied and then reversing the procedure can increase the risk for having an ectopic pregnancy.

Reversing a tubal ligation is easier than it might seem.

Discovering the underlying psychological components of the "letting go" of your looks and health will help you make tremendous strides in reversing the process.

For all these reasons, reversing the trend of obesity in children is an important focal point for parents and doctors alike.

Now Target, Sears and Kmart are reversing their policy and putting "Christmas" back in the season, the result of a threatened boycott of the stores by the American Family Association, a pro-family organization from Tupelo, Mississippi.

Unfortunately, due to the composition of a breast, reversing the damage caused by age, childbirth and gravity can be a bit of a challenge.

For many women, slowing or reversing the aging process is important.

Antioxidants do just that by preventing and, in some cases, even reversing the oxidization of cells caused by free radicals.

Halting the effects of time, reversing those aggravating lines and preventing future wrinkles are all paramount in the fight against aging.

Focusing back upon the importance of daily cleansing, women of color should seek out a product that both nourishes the skin while also reversing the hands of time.

The obvious remedy is to make all measures on opposite sides of the fixed web before reversing in position-angle - a precaution, however, which no careful observer would neglect.

The excellent manner in which the scales and micrometers are mounted, the employment of a compound microscope for viewing the scales, with its ingeniously arranged and admirably efficient reversing prism, and the perfection of its slow motions for focusing and reading, combine to render this a most accurate and convenient instrument for very refined measures, although too slow for work in which the measures must depend on single pointings in each of two reversed positions of the plate, and where speed of working is essential.

Where high speed lowering is not required it is usual to employ a reversing motor and keep it always in gear.

The singleneedle instrument is a vertical needle galvanoscope worked by a battery and reversing handle, or two " tapper " keys, the motions to right and left of one end of the index corresponding to the dashes and dots of the Morse alphabet.

Each of them, besides being a reversing gear, is an expansion gear both in forward and backward running.

The engine, which is provided with reversing gear, is of 12 or 15 horse-power and motion is communicated through a belt to the band-wheel, which operates the walking-beam by means of a crank.

The position of the reversing link is altered by means of a cord, passing over two pulleys, fixed respectively in the engine-house and on the derrick.

K is a commutator for reversing the direction of the magnetizing current, and G a galvanometer for measuring it.

The reversing key K having been put over to the left side, the short-circuit key S is suddenly opened; this inserts the resistance R, which has been suitably adjusted before hand, and thus reduces the current and therefore the magnetizing force to a known value.

To continue the process, the key K is turned over to the right-hand side, and then, while S is open, is turned back, thereby not only reversing the direction of the current, but diminishing its strength by an amount depending upon the previous adjustment of R2.

The second has a very small area, showing that the work done in reversing the magnetization is small; the metal is therefore adapted for use in alternating current trans formers.

Inside the torsion-head is a commutator for automatically reversing the current, so that readings may be taken on each side of zero, and the arrangement is such that when the torsion-head is exactly at zero the current is interrupted.

Hoisting engines are provided with powerful brakes and frequently with reversing gear.

On reversing the motion the valve E closes and the liquid is forced through the valve F to the upper part of the cylinder.

Gill introduced a powerful auxiliary to the accuracy of heliometer measures in the shape of a reversing prism placed in front of the eye-piece, between the latter and the observer's eye.

The third form is the outflow or reversing thermometer, first introduced by Aime, who used a very inconvenient form in the Mediterranean in 1841-1845, but greatly improved and simplified by Negretti and Zambra in 1875.

A correction has, of course, to be made for the expansion or contraction of the mercury thread if the temperature of reading differs much from that of reversing.

Fore-sights are made right and left; tangent sights are interchangeable, the graduations are cut on the horizontal edges above and below, so that the sight can be changed from right to left or vice versa by removing and reversing the bar.

It was marked by the complete defeat of the AntiUnionist party in Nova Scotia, only one member of which secured his election, thus exactly reversing the Pacific vote of 1867.

On his deathbed Richard, reversing his former arrangements, caused his barons to swear fealty to John (1199), although the hereditary claim of Arthur was by the law of primogeniture undoubtedly superior.

But the free-traders did not like Mr Balfour's formula as to reversing the traditional fiscal policy of import taxes for revenue only.

At the council of Sardica (343) an attempt had been made to regulate the procedure in these appeals, by recognizing as the right of the pope the reversing of judgments, and the appointment of fresh judges.

The air and gas, the latter coming from the gas producers or other source, arrive through H and J respectively, and their path thence is determined by the position of the reversing valves K and K'.

K, Air reversing valve.

K', Gas reversing valve.