Resort vs Revert - What's the difference?
resort | revert |
A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities]] such as [[lodging, lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.
Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
* Milton
To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
* Clarendon
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To fall back; to revert.
* Sir M. Hale
To make one's way, go (to).
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
An act of sorting again.
* 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer , Volume 16:
(obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.
* Francis Bacon
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
* 2010 , Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250 (page 77)
(computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
* Prior
* Thomson
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
To cause to return to a former condition.
(now rare) To return; to come back.
* Shakespeare
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)
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, chapter=2 (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
* 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
* 2003 , Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumu?ah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12
(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 .
As nouns the difference between resort and revert
is that resort is a place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities]] such as [[lodging|lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment or resort can be an act of sorting again or resort can be (obsolete) active power or movement; spring while revert is one who, or that which, reverts.As verbs the difference between resort and revert
is that resort is to have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration or resort can be to repeat a sorting process; sort again while revert is (now rare) to turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.resort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- to have resort to violence
- Join with me to forbid him her resort .
- far from all resort of mirth
Verb
(en verb)- The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.
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- The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.
- The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.
Derived terms
* last resortEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- "If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.
Etymology 3
(etyl) ressort.Noun
(en noun)- Some know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.
External links
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English
(reversion)Noun
(en noun)- Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.
- genuine — if intentionally vague — concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts
- We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
Verb
(en verb)- Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
- The tumbling stream / Reverted , plays in undulating flow.
- So that my arrows / Would have reverted to my bow again.
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- 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.
- The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.
- 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.