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Revert vs Comeback - What's the difference?

revert | comeback |

As nouns the difference between revert and comeback

is that revert is one who, or that which, reverts while comeback is a return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.

As a verb revert

is to turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

revert

English

(reversion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, reverts.
  • (in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
  • * 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons , page 27:
  • * 2001 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
  • Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.
  • * 2010 , Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250 (page 77)
  • genuine — if intentionally vague — concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts
  • (computing) 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.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  • * Prior
  • Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
  • * Thomson
  • The tumbling stream / Reverted , plays in undulating flow.
  • To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  • To cause to return to a former condition.
  • (now rare) To return; to come back.
  • * Shakespeare
  • So that my arrows / Would have reverted to my bow again.
  • To return to the possession of.
  • # (legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
  • To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
  • To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=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.}}
  • (biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  • To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
  • To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.
  • (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
  • * 1995 , Wiz?rat al-I?l?m wa-al-Thaq?fah, Sudanow: Volume 20
  • 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.
  • * 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
  • The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.
  • * 2003 , Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumu?ah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12
  • But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life.
  • (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To reply; to come back.
  • (math) 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 .
  • comeback

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
  • That fad went out with the eighties, but I think it's making a comeback .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=February 5 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Newcastle produced a stunning comeback from 4-0 down to earn a draw that shocked title hopefuls Arsenal.}}
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2013 , date=December 6 , author= alim17 , title=Girls' Generation rumored to make a comeback in early 2014! , work=allkpop.com citation , page= , passage= According to rumors in the entertainment world on December 6, Girls' Generation will be making a comeback' next year with a masculine concept. They have supposedly decided on the title song in their new album and have begun filming the music video on December 6. It appears they have started preparing for a full-scale '''comeback'''! It will be the girls' first Korean ' comeback in a year since "I Got a Boy." }}
  • A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
  • I wish I had thought of a quick comeback for his comment.

    Usage notes

    In sense “reply”, more casual than (m) or the somewhat formal (m).

    Synonyms

    * (reply) rejoinder, retort