Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word REVERSE

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Definitions of REVERSE

1. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
2. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
3. To overthrow; to subvert.
4. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction. [from 14th c.]
5. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction. [from 19th c.]
6. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
7. (botany) Reversed.
8. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
9. (nowrare) In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down. [from 16^thc. (from the 14^thc. in Middle English)]
10. The opposite of something. [from 14th c.]
11. The act of going backwards; a reversal. [from 15th c.]
12. A piece of misfortune; a setback. [from 16th c.]
13. (numismatics, y) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse. [from 17th c.]
14. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side. [from 18th c.]
15. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. [from 19th c.]
16. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
17. (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
18. (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
19. (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
20. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
21. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
22. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
23. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
24. (legal) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
25. (ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
26. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
27. (rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
28. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
29. (aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
30. (computing) Short for reverse-engineer.

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Examples of Using REVERSE in a Sentence

• Alypius was afterwards commissioned to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem as part of Julian's systematic attempt to reverse the Christianization of the Roman Empire by restoring pagan and, in this case, Jewish practices.
• The BIOS firmware was originally proprietary to the IBM PC; it was reverse engineered by some companies (such as Phoenix Technologies) looking to create compatible systems.
• In engineered forms, it often is a copy (replicate) of the naturally occurring DNA from any particular organism's natural genome; the organism's own mRNA was naturally transcribed from its DNA, and the cDNA is reverse transcribed from the mRNA, yielding a duplicate of the original DNA.
• Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the second company after Columbia Data Products to legally reverse engineer the BIOS of the IBM Personal Computer.
• He is known for his scientific contributions to the theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature.
• The most prevalent versions of the coin show a common loon, a bird found throughout Canada, on the reverse and Queen Elizabeth II, the nation's head of state at the time of the coin's issue, on the obverse.
• Mirrors reverse the direction of the image in an equal yet opposite angle from which the light shines upon it.
• She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, King Henry VIII.
• Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose (security through obscurity) or its logic or implicit values embedded in it, primarily, in order to prevent tampering, deter reverse engineering, or even to create a puzzle or recreational challenge for someone reading the source code.
• It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction (see shot reverse shot).
• In colloquial usage, the term palimpsest is also used in architecture, archaeology and geomorphology to denote an object made or worked upon for one purpose and later reused for another; for example, a monumental brass the reverse blank side of which has been re-engraved.
• Polymorphic code, self-modifying program code designed to defeat anti-virus programs or reverse engineering.
• Firmly committed to carrying out the decrees of the Council of Trent and authentic Catholic teaching, Benedict removed changes previously made to the Breviary, sought peacefully to reverse growing secularism in European courts, invigorated ceremonies with great pomp, and throughout his life and his reign published numerous theological and ecclesiastical treatises.
• Polish notation (PN), also known as normal Polish notation (NPN), Łukasiewicz notation, Warsaw notation, Polish prefix notation or simply prefix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators precede their operands, in contrast to the more common infix notation, in which operators are placed between operands, as well as reverse Polish notation (RPN), in which operators follow their operands.
• After invading a host cell's cytoplasm, the virus uses its own reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome, the reverse of the usual pattern, thus retro (backward).
• Retroposons are repetitive DNA fragments which are inserted into chromosomes after they had been reverse transcribed from any RNA molecule.
• A reverse transcriptase (RT) is an enzyme used to convert RNA genome to DNA, a process termed reverse transcription.
• Reverse Polish notation (RPN), also known as reverse Łukasiewicz notation, Polish postfix notation or simply postfix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators follow their operands, in contrast to prefix or Polish notation (PN), in which operators precede their operands.
• It revolves around the character Susumu Kodai (Derek Wildstar in the English version) and an international crew from Earth, tasked during an interstellar war to go into space aboard the space warship Yamato, derived from the World War II battleship of the same name, in response to a message of aid from the planet Iscandar in order to retrieve a device which is able to reverse the radiation infecting Earth after being bombed by the Gamilas (Gamilons).
• The toonie is a bi-metallic coin which on the reverse side bears an image of a polar bear by artist Brent Townsend.
• Adorning its obverse is the profile of George Washington, while its reverse design has undergone frequent changes since 1998.
• Lipscomb was intended to test the potential advantages of this propulsion system for providing quieter and safer operation for a full sized attack submarine (safer because reverse thrust would be instantaneous with reversal of the direct current engine's electric polarity).
• Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.
• He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.
• Carmack made innovations in 3D computer graphics, such as his Carmack's Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes.

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