Reparate vs Reverse - What's the difference?
reparate | reverse |
(obsolescent, rare) Restored]] to a state of good [[repair#Noun, repair; returned to working order.
* For examples of the usage of this term see the .
Gives the Latin etymology and defines the adjective merely as “repaired”; gives one supporting quotation and does not indicate the pronunciation. * “
Gives the Latin etymology and defines the adjective similarly hereto; gives two supporting quotations and does not indicate the pronunciation. ; restore to proper condition.
* For examples of the usage of this term see the .
Make reparation(s).
Make reparation(s) for; redress.
(transitive, chiefly, US) Make reparation to; compensate.
Lists this verb as the same word as , defining it in the transitive senses only. English terms with multiple etymologies ---- 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
As verbs the difference between reparate and reverse
is that reparate is ; restore to proper condition or reparate can be make reparation(s) while reverse is .As an adjective reparate
is (obsolescent|rare) restored]] to a state of good [[repair#noun|repair; returned to working order.reparate
English
Etymology 1
From the Classical (etyl) .Adjective
(-)References
* “†?reparate, ppl. a.'']” listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary], second edition (1989)
Gives the Latin etymology and defines the adjective merely as “repaired”; gives one supporting quotation and does not indicate the pronunciation. * “
†reparate, adj.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , draft revision (December 2009)
Gives the Latin etymology and defines the adjective similarly hereto; gives two supporting quotations and does not indicate the pronunciation.
Etymology 2
From the Classical (etyl) .Verb
References
* “reparate, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', draft revision (December 2009)''n.''”, and offering for comparison the related adjective ”.
Gives the Latin etymology, noting “after [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50202915 REPARATION
Etymology 3
Back-formation from reparation.Verb
Quotations
* For examples of the usage of this term see the .References
* Ole R. Reuter, On the Development of English Verbs from Latin and French Past Participles'' (Helsingfors, 1934),page 155]. * “reparate, v.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , draft revision (December 2009)
reparate 1922 [back-form. f. ''reparation
Lists this verb as the same word as , defining it in the transitive senses only. English terms with multiple etymologies ----
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.