Revert

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
  • intransitive verb. To resume using something that has been disused.
  • intransitive verb. To be returned to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo reversion.
  • intransitive verb. To reply.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
  • intransitive verb. To return (an estate, for example) to the grantor or the grantor's heirs or successor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who or that which reverts; colloquially, one who is reconverted.
  • noun. In music, return; recurrence; antistrophe.
  • noun. That which is reverted. Compare introvert, n.
  • To turn about or back; reverse the position or direction of.
  • To alter to the contrary; reverse.
  • To cast back; turn to the past.
  • To turn back; face or look backward.
  • To come back to a former place or position; return.
  • To return, as to a former habit, custom, or mode of thought or conduct.
  • In biology, to go back to an earlier, former, or primitive type; reproduce the characteristics of antecedent stages of development; undergo reversion; exhibit atavism.
  • To go back in thought or discourse, as to a former subject of consideration; recur.
  • In law, to return to the donor, or to the former proprietor or his heirs.
  • In chem., to return from a soluble to an insoluble condition: applied to a change which takes place in certain superphosphates. See reversion, 8.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, reverts.
  • intransitive verb. To return; to come back.
  • intransitive verb. To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
  • intransitive verb. To return, wholly or in part, towards some preĆ«xistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  • intransitive verb. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
  • transitive verb. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
  • transitive verb. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  • transitive verb. To change back. See Revert, v. i.
  • transitive verb. to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who, or that which, reverts.
  • noun. A convert to Islam.
  • noun. The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
  • verb. To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  • verb. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  • verb. To cause to return to a former condition.
  • verb. To return; to come back.
  • verb. To return to the possession of.
  • verb. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
  • verb. To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
  • verb. To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  • verb. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
  • verb. To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.
  • verb. To convert to Islam.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. go back to a previous state
  • verb. undergo reversion, as in a mutation
  • Word Usage
    "Habari superglobal. php (revision 3563) 11 class SuperGlobal extends ArrayIterator 12 {29 public static function process_gps () 30 {31/* We should only revert the magic quotes once per page hit */32 static $revert = true; 33 34 if (!"
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