revert
/ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who, or that which, reverts.
noun
The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
noun
The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
verb
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
Example Sentences
- "[...] 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]."
- "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."
- "Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one."
- "We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges."
- "In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]"
- "Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-etor Proto-Indo-European *wértetor Proto-Italic *wertō Latin vertō Latin revertor Old French revertirbor. English revert From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.