Reverse vs Overset - What's the difference?

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Reverse is a synonym of overset.

As verbs the difference between reverse and overset

is that reverse is while overset is (obsolete) to set over (something); to cover.

reverse

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.

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.

Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.

He selected reverse gear.

(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

He found the sea diverse / With many a windy storm reverse .

(botany) Reversed.

a reverse shell

Antonyms

* (rail transport) normal

Derived terms

* reverse discrimination

Adverb

(en adverb)

*, 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.

Noun

(en noun)

The opposite of something.

We believed the Chinese weren't ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true.

The act of going backwards; a reversal.

* Lamb

By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.

A piece of misfortune; a setback.

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 309:

In fact, though the Russians did not yet know it, the British had met with a reverse .

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.

(Shakespeare)

(surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

Derived terms

* in reverse

Verb

(revers)

To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.

To turn something inside out or upside down.

* Sir W. Temple

A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.

To transpose the positions of two things.

To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

* Shakespeare

Reverse the doom of death.

* Sir Walter Scott

She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.

(obsolete) To return, come back.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.4:

Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse ?

(obsolete) To turn away; to cause to depart.

* Spenser

And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse .

(obsolete) To cause to return; to recall.

* Spenser

And to his fresh remembrance did reverse / The ugly view of his deformed crimes.

(legal) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.

to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree

(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

These can divide, and these reverse , the state.

* Rogers

Custom reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.

Derived terms

* to reverse out * bootlegger reverse * reversal noun

Antonyms

* (rail transport) normalise / normalize (transitive and intransitive)

Anagrams

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overset

English

Verb

(obsolete) To set over (something); to cover.

To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.

(Mortimer)

(obsolete) To overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat.

To physically disturb (someone); to make nauseous, upset.

To knock over, capsize, overturn.

* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.104:

A reef between them also now began / To show its boiling surf and bounding spray, / But finding no place for their landing better, / They ran the boat for shore,—and overset her.

To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray.

* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy

Thus has the Tailor-art, so to speak, overset itself, like most other things; changed its centre-of-gravity; whirled suddenly over from zenith to nadir.

* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 152:

*:‘So this is the creature who oversets the household and suborns servants and clergymen,’ d'Anton said.

(printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space.

To translate.

*1879 , The Saturday magazine - Volume 1 - Page 87:

Overset into English, after the spirits and measures of the anthentical; by Dr. Heinrich Krauss, Ph.D., and so wider.

*1910 , Leonard Bacon, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Henry Ward Beecher, The Independent - Volume 69 - Page 1220 :

They should be overset into English so as to reach a wider public here, for even his elementary descriptions of American universities, would not be so superfluous to any of us as we think, [...]

*2006 , John David Pizer, The idea of world literature :

The thought and its expression—these are the two factors which must solve the problem; and it matters not how much we translate or overset —as the Germans felicitously say—so long as we go no deeper and do not grasp at what all literatures have in common.

To overfill.

(Howell)