Reverse vs Transition - What's the difference?
reverse | transition |
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
The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
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, passage=So, depending on how he chooses to govern over the next four years, Mr. Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the next. His re-election opens the door further for the post-’60s generation, even if it does not quite clear the room.}}
A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
(music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
(genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
(some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
(medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
(education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
(skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
(LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
To make a .
To bring through a ; to change.
(LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
* 2006 , Taylor J. Holder, All Points in Between: Shifting on the Scale of Sex and Gender (ISBN 0595399274):
* 2009 , Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (ISBN 0786747919):
* 2009 , Mara Drummond, Transitions - A Guide To Transitioning For Transsexuals And Their Families , page 71:
* 2012 , Kevin Alderson, Counseling LGBTI Clients (ISBN 1412987180), page 195:
As verbs the difference between reverse and transition
is that reverse is while transition is to make a.As a noun transition is
the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.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 ----transition
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
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Usage notes
In the United Kingdom education system, the noun is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next. Contrast with transfer which is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. In the United States education system the, noun is used to define a move from a one phase of an to another specifically regarding the child's or adult's progress from more or less special educational support to greater independent living.Verb
(en verb)- The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.
- Eric told me that after he transitioned , he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.
- And simply being accepted into one of these programs was not a guarantee that one would be allowed to transition . First, the trans person had to undergo extensive, sometimes indefinite, periods of psychotherapy
- If the transitioning' person leaves the family home, there will be moving costs, and costs associated with the acquisition of another home or the renting of an apartment. If the non-' transitioning spouse leaves the family home,
- After he transitioned , he changed jobs so he could go stealth, hoping that no one would discover he was once a woman.