'Revert' definitions:
Definition of 'revert'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Revert'
From: GCIDE
- Revert \Re*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverting.] [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.]
- 1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. [1913 Webster]
- Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i. [1913 Webster]
- To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx^2 + 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Revert'
From: GCIDE
- Revert \Re*vert"\, v. i.
- 1. To return; to come back. [1913 Webster]
- So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Revert'
From: GCIDE
- Revert \Re*vert"\, n. One who, or that which, reverts. [1913 Webster]
- An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'revert'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- back,
- back up,
- backslide,
- cock,
- come after,
- come again,
- come back,
- come last,
- come up again,
- cry back to,
- echo,
- fall,
- fall again into,
- fall astern,
- fall back,
- fall behind,
- fall from grace,
- follow,
- get behind,
- go back,
- go back to,
- go backwards,
- go behind,
- have a relapse,
- jerk back,
- keep coming,
- lag behind,
- lapse,
- lapse back,
- lose ground,
- pull back,
- react,
- reappear,
- recede,
- recidivate,
- recur,
- recur to,
- regress,
- relapse,
- reoccur,
- repeat,
- resound,
- resume,
- retreat,
- retrocede,
- retroflex,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- retrovert,
- return,
- return to,
- reverberate,
- reverse,
- revert to,
- sink back,
- slide back,
- slip back,
- take up again,
- trail,
- trail behind,
- turn,
- yield again to