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revert

Syllables: re·vert/ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t/

revert noun: one who, or that which, reverts.

Noun

revert (plural reverts)

  1. One who, or that which, reverts.
  2. One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
    • [...] Cyril III ibn Laqlaq’s correspondence which reflects genuine—if intentionally vague—concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts [who had converted to Islam before].2010, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250, page 77
  3. (ideologically loaded, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
    • Zeba Siddiqui, herself a revert and editor of the Parent's Manual: A Guide for Muslim Parents Living in North America, contributed to this book as a consultant.1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons, page 27
    • Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.2001, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
  4. The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
    • We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
  5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
    • In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124

Verb

revert (third-person singular simple present reverts, present participle reverting, simple past and past participle reverted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
    • Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.c. 1700, Matthew Prior, A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus
    • The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
  2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
    • Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes / Too ſlightly timbred for ſo loud a Winde, / Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe, / And not where I had arm’d them.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    Synonyms:
    restore, roll back
  4. (transitive) To reverse (a change).
    • This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level.1998, Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Steven Black, Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0, page 826
    • You can use page histories to easily revert (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit.2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 82
    Synonyms:
    undo
  5. (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
    • When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.2008, Kidd, Terry T., Chen, Irene, Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, page 261
    • She has, in other words, two beliefs: βc (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she cooperated) and βr (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she :Template:..2014, Simon DeDeo, “Group minds and the case of Wikipedia”, in Human Computation
  6. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
    • When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
    1. (intransitive) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
  7. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
    • Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
  8. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
    • Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  9. (intransitive) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  10. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
    • Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
  11. (intransitive, nonstandard) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
    Synonyms:
    hark back
  12. (archaic, intransitive) To return; to come back.
    • If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
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  1. (intransitive) To convert to Islam.
    • He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam.1995, Wizārat al-Iʻlām wa-al-Thaqāfah, “Sudanow”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 20
    • The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
  2. (intransitive, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
    • Please revert before Monday.
    Synonyms:
    revert back
  3. (transitive) 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.
    • First we revert the series expansion (3.6) to give z(#92;zeta) as a series in z.1990, George A. Baker, Jr.; J. D. Johnson, “Thomas-Fermi Equation of State - The Hot Curve”, in Valdir C. Aguilera-Navarro, editor, Condensed Matter Theories, volume 5, →ISBN, page 5
    • To express z as a power series of n#92;lambda³, we first expand g#95;#123;3#47;2#125;(z) in z […] We then revert the power series to express z in terms of n#92;lambda³.2005, Frank Y. Wang, Physics with MAPLE: The Computer Algebra Resource for Mathematical Methods in Physics, →ISBN, pages 518–9

revert meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

revert in Tamil

முன்நிலையாக்கு, திருப்பு, பணி இறக்கு, முன்னை நிலைக்கு மாற்று, மாற்றுதல்

revert in Urdu

پلٹا, تنزل, واپسی, پلٹنا

revert in Bengali

পূর্ববর্তী অবস্থায় ফিরে যাওয়া

revert in Malayalam

തിരിച്ചുവിടുക, അധോഗതി പ്രാപിക്കുക, വിഷയത്തിലേക്കു മടങ്ങുക
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revert in Kannada
ಹಿಂದಿರುಗು, ಮರಳು, ವಾಪಸಾಗು, ಪೂರ್ವಾವಸ್ಥೆಗೆ ಬರು

Examples of revert in a sentence

  • But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an.2003, Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumuʻah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12:
  • We can revert the series expansion of #92;langlen#92;rangle#92;lambda³#95;T#47;g […] and obtain a series expansion for the fugacity z in terms of #92;langlen#92;rangle#92;lambda³#95;T#47;g, […]2016, Linda E. Reichl, A Modern Course in Statistical Physics, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 218:

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Forms of revert

Noun
pluralreverts
Verb
third-person singular presentreverts
present participlereverting
past participlereverted
pastreverted

Past tense of revert: reverted

Plural of revert: reverts

Origin of revert

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.

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Questions about revert

What does revert mean?
Revert means one who, or that which, reverts.
What is revert in Tamil?
Revert in Tamil is முன்நிலையாக்கு, திருப்பு, பணி இறக்கு. See Revert meaning in Tamil.
How do you use revert in a sentence?
But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an.
What part of speech is revert?
Revert can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce revert?
Revert is pronounced /ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t/.
What is the plural of revert?
The plural of revert is reverts.

Words near revert in the dictionary

  1. reversive
  2. reversively
  3. reversivity
  4. reverso
  5. reversos
  6. revert
  7. revert back
  8. revert war
  9. revert wars
  10. revertability
  11. revertable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: revert (page history and authors); revert (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revert (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revert (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revert (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revert (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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