Word Finder - revert

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One who, or that which, reverts.

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One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another

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(due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.

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The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

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We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

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(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

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To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

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To cause to return to a former condition.

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(now rare) To return; to come back.

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If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.

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To return to the possession of.

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When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.

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

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Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.

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To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

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

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

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Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

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To take up again or return to a previous topic.

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(in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.

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(originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).

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Please revert before Monday.

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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.

We shall revert to this subject below.

It did not revert to the crown till his death in 1447.

Compound locomotives have been tried, as stated in § 17, but the tendency in England is to revert to the simple engine for all classes of work, though on the continent of Europe and in America the compound locomotive is largely adopted, and is doing excellent work.

If we begin with a blue glass, we may observe the gradually increasing obliquity of the direction of maximum polarization; and then by exchanging the blue glass for a red one, we may revert to the original condition of things, and observe the transition from perpendicularity to obliquity over again.

The mention of Liszt has led us to anticipate the end of the story, and we must revert to 1836, when the acquaintance began.

This also proved abortive, and affairs rapidly tended to revert to the ex-lex situation.

A two-year-old is much less likely to revert to thumb sucking.

In modified forms of plants there is frequently a tendency to " sport " or revert to parental or ancestral characteristics.

All this, however, did not argue an intention on the part of the government to revert to the autocratic status quo.

They practically constitute sub-races, with a general blending of the characters of the two parents, and only differing from fully-established races in more or less tendency to revert to one or other of the original types.

But the bishop of Miinster and his friends crushed the one movement, and after interfering in the affairs of Denmark the Lubeckers were compelled to revert to their former mode of government.

Parma and Piacenza were assigned to Marie Louise, daughter of the Austrian emperor and wife of Napoleon, on behalf of her son, the little Napoleon, but by subsequent arrangements (1816-1817) the duchy was to revert at her death to the Bourbons of Parma, then reigning at Lucca.

There remained, nevertheless, a tendency on the part of the clergy who used incense, or desired to do so, to revert to the position they occupied before the Lambeth hearing - that is, to insist on the ceremonial use of incense as a part of the Catholic practice of the Church of England which it is the duty of the clergy to maintain, notwithstanding the decisions of ecclesiastical judges or the opinions or archbishops to the contrary.

This fashion survived throughout most of the 19th century, but there has since been a tendency to revert to the earlier less exaggerated form, and the sleeves have been reattached to the rochet.

The nation would never accept a Catholic king, a Stuart, nor revert, as against England, to the ancient French alliance.

This has led some factories which had introduced such furnaces to revert to hand-wrought muffle-furnaces.

On the motion of the Estate of Peasants, which had a long memory for aristocratic abuses, the question of the recovery of the alienated crown lands was brought before the Riksdag, and, despite the stubborn opposition of the magnates, a resolution of the Diet directed that all countships, baronies, domains, manors and other estates producing an annual rent of more than 70 per annum should revert to the Crown.

Georgia was, clearly, not to revert to a Mahommedan suzerain.

The marriage contract was ostensibly directed in favour of the independence of Brittany, for it declared that Brittany should revert to the second son or to the eldest daughter of the two sovereigns, and, failing issue, to the natural heirs of the duchess.

The consciousness of being in the line of apostolic succession helped the English clergy to revert to the principle Ecclesia est in episcopo, and the great periodical conferences of Anglican bishops from all parts of the world have something of the character, though they do not claim the ecumenical authority, of the general councils of the early Church (see Lambeth Conferences).

In the event of any starting lights failure the Starter will revert to use of the National Flag.

Will he be strong enough to resist the temptation to revert to crime?

Many children will also revert to a previous developmental stage.

The publisher cannot revert to using the previous ISSN.

In 1695 these two branches of the family entered conjointly into an agreement with Brandenburg, which provided that, in case of the extinction of either of the Swabian branches, the remaining branch should inherit its lands; and if both branches became extinct the principalities should revert to Brandenburg.

The elements of the force then revert to earlier " rapid deployment " status.

Deleted existing pages / need to revert back to a previous state?

This is why Islamic revivalist movements like the Taliban tend to revert to the cultural trappings of the dark ages.

He may seem to succeed in the process, but eventually revert back to using diapers simply because he's not mature enough yet.

Then, if you decide you don't like what you've done, you can simply revert back to the previous version of your layout.

If you've tried to cut back on sugary foods and drinks before, you may feel discouraged and revert back to your old habits again.

Seeds freely, but the seedlings mostly revert, only the tiny slow-growing plants coming true.

They will sometimes revert to behaviors they had at a younger age, such as wetting the bed or thumb sucking.

They revert to their original shape after extreme trauma and distortion; because of this property, though, they cannot be readjusted after they are manufactured.

Toddlers may revert to an earlier development stage in such areas as eating, sleeping, toilet training, motor activity, language, and emotional independence.

Under proper conditions, the spore may revert to the actively multiplying form of the bacteria.

Even if you are going to revert to English while asking your actual questions, you should still approach someone with excusez-moi madame/monsieur.

The three-field system of cropping a patch of land until its fertility is exhausted, and then allowing it to revert to the primeval condition, is still pursued, and both landowners and peasantry suffer from want of capital and lack of agricultural training.

He found it necessary, in order to secure efficient government, to revert in some measure to the system of the Incas.

Canon Caruana and other leaders of the Maltese aspired to obtain for Malta the freedom of the Roman Catholic religion guaranteed by England in Canada and other dependencies, and promoted a petition in order that Malta should come under the strong power of England rather than revert to the kingdom of the two Sicilies.

At the end of June 1802 the pope removed Talleyrand from the ban of excommunication and allowed him to revert to the secular state.

But the excessive caution of Jagiello gave the Knights time to recover from the blow; the Polish levies proved unruly and incompetent; Witowt was suddenly recalled to Lithuania by a Tatar invasion, and thus it came about that, when peace was concluded at Thorn, on the 1st of February 1411, Samogitia (which was to revert to the Order on the death of Jagiello and Witowt), Dobrzyn, and a war indemnity of 10o,000 marks payable in four instalments, were the best terms Poland could obtain from the Knights, whose territory practically remained intact.

In case the mar riage should have no issue, the sovereignty of the Netherlands was to revert to the king of Spain.

One great drawback to the use of even the purest rock-salt simply ground is its tendency to revert to a hard unwieldy mass, when kept any length of time in sacks.

His historical instinct led him ever to revert to the original unity of the church, and to regard subsequent errors as excrescences rather than proofs of an essentially anti-Christian system.

The tendency is for the mestizo who dwells in Indian communities to revert to the Indian type, and it is probable that the larger estimate is nearer the truth.

That the animal now occurs in a wild state is no argument whatever as to its being indigenous, seeing that a domesticated breed introduced by man into a new country abounding in game would almost certainly revert to the wild state.

Large areas temporarily devoted to cultivation with poor success, and later allowed to revert to ranges, have become prosperous and even noted as stock country.

On the other hand, from the experiments of Mendel and others, we now know that crossbred animals and plants may present all the characters of one of their pure-bred parents, and we also know that the offspring of what are regarded as pure-bred parents sometimes revert to remote, it may be quite different, ancestors.

If they do, and the same process of selection be continued, the variation becomes in time "fixed," though it is always more or less liable to revert to its original condition.