Definitions for reverse

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reverse re·verse

Spelling: [ri-vurs]

IPA: /rɪˈvɜrs/

Reverse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in reverse (eeerrsv).

Definitions for reverse

noun

1. the opposite or contrary of something.
2. the back or rear of anything.
3. Numismatics. the side of a coin, medal, etc., that does not bear the principal design (opposed to obverse). the side of an ancient coin that was struck by the upper die.
4. an adverse change of fortune; a misfortune, check, or defeat:
5. Machinery. the condition of being reversed: a reversing mechanism.
6. Football. a play on offense in which one back running laterally hands the ball to another back who is running in the opposite direction and who then makes either an end run or a cutback.
7. Bridge. reverse bid.
8. Printing. printed matter in which areas that normally appear as white are printed in black, and vice versa.

adjective

1. opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character:
2. with the back or rear part toward the observer:
3. pertaining to or producing movement in a mechanism opposite to that made under ordinary running conditions:
4. acting in a manner opposite or contrary to that which is usual, as an appliance or apparatus.
5. noting or pertaining to an image like that seen in a mirror; backward; reversed.
6. noting or pertaining to printed matter in which what is normally white, as the page of a book, appears as black, and vice versa.

verb (used with object)

1. to turn in an opposite position; transpose:
2. to turn in the opposite direction; send on the opposite course.
3. to turn inside out or upside down.
4. to change the direction of running of (a mechanism).
5. to cause (a mechanism) to run in a direction opposite to that in which it commonly runs.
6. to revoke or annul (a decree, judgment, etc.):
7. to alter to the opposite in character or tendency; change completely.
8. to turn in the opposite order:
9. Printing. to print as a reverse.

verb (used without object)

1. to shift into reverse gear:
2. (of a mechanism) to be reversed.
3. to turn or move in the opposite or contrary direction, as in dancing.
4. Bridge. to make a reverse bid.

Origin of reverse

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English revers Old French Latin reversus, past participle of revertere to revert (see verse); (v.) Middle English

Examples for reverse

Europeans seem to find them exotic, an odd case of culture-envy in reverse.

Ditto Virginia, but in reverse; culturally, northern Virginia is Yankee land (but with gun shops).

To make it such is in every respect the reverse of scientific.

Will you take my word for it, when I tell you she has not your right interests at heart, but the reverse?

Then, without comment, he glided out to reverse all his arrangements.

My trip takes the reverse path, and I begin by assessing the depth of my Shakespeare knowledge in his birthplace.

The Hampshire knight was not a man to be disheartened by a reverse.

So now the company is asking the FCC to, in effect, reverse itself.

The action of the 16th September is considered by some to have been a reverse.

But  Republican and Democratic parties have made efforts to reverse that trend.