Reverse vs Monitor - What's the difference?
reverse | monitor |
Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
(rail transport, of points) to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
* Gower
(botany) Reversed.
*, Bk.XVIII:
*:they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.
*1963 , Donal Serrell Thomas, Points of Contact :
*:The man was killed to feed his image fat / Within this pictured world that ran reverse , / Where miracles alone were ever plain.
The opposite of something.
The act of going backwards; a reversal.
* Lamb
A piece of misfortune; a setback.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 309:
The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
(surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
To turn something inside out or upside down.
* Sir W. Temple
To transpose the positions of two things.
To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To return, come back.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.4:
(obsolete) To turn away; to cause to depart.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To cause to return; to recall.
* Spenser
(legal) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
(ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
(chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
(rail transport) To place a set of points in the reverse position
(rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
To overthrow; to subvert.
* Alexander Pope
* Rogers
Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
* 1829 , Charles Sprague,
A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
(computing) A program for viewing and editing.
(British) A student leader in a class.
* 1871 , ,
* 1881 , , Chapter X,
(nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
(archaic) An ironclad.
A monitor lizard.
(obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
* Francis Bacon
(engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring the several tools successively into position.
To watch over; to guard.
* 1993 , H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide , World Health Organization,
* 1997 , Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers , Volumes 23-373,
* 2002', Mark Baker, Garry Smith, ''GridRM: A Resource '''Monitoring Architecture for the Grid'', in Manish Parashar (editor), ''Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop , Springer, LNCS 2536,
As a verb reverse
is .As a proper noun monitor is
any of several publications eg the "christian science monitor".reverse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We ate the meal in reverse order, starting with dessert and ending with the starter.
- The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.
- He selected reverse gear.
- He found the sea diverse / With many a windy storm reverse .
- a reverse shell
Antonyms
* (rail transport) normalDerived terms
* reverse discriminationAdverb
(en adverb)Noun
(en noun)- We believed the Chinese weren't ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true.
- By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.
- In fact, though the Russians did not yet know it, the British had met with a reverse .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* in reverseVerb
(revers)- A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.
- Reverse the doom of death.
- She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.
- Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse ?
- And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse .
- And to his fresh remembrance did reverse / The ugly view of his deformed crimes.
- to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree
- These can divide, and these reverse , the state.
- Custom reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.
Derived terms
* to reverse out * bootlegger reverse * reversal nounAntonyms
* (rail transport) normalise / normalize (transitive and intransitive)Anagrams
* * * English ergative verbs ----monitor
English
Alternative forms
* monitour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
- And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
- A monitor , though still;
- Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
- Beyond the preacher's skill.
- The information flashed up on the monitor .
- a machine code monitor
- So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors , who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.
- But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors !
- You need not be a monitor to the king.
Derived terms
* hall monitor * hallway monitor * monitor lizard * water monitorSee also
* display * screen * VDUVerb
(en verb)page 134,
- Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
page 239,
- During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
page 268,
- A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored' and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance ' monitoring , analysis, prediction and tuning.