Revert vs Again - What's the difference?
revert | again |
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)
, title=(The China Governess)
, 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 .
(label) Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.
* 1526 , The Bible , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) 2:
Back (to a former place or state).
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), chapter=19
, title= (label) In return, as a reciprocal action; back.
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* 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)
Another time; once more.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again';
* , chapter=1
, title= * 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:
* 1979 , Charles Edward Daniels et al., “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (song), Million Mile Reflections , Charlie Daniels Band, Epic Records:
* 2010 , Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian , 30 October:
Over and above a factor of one.
* 1908 December 10, , “New Genera and Species of Crinoids”, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , Volume XXI,
# Tell me again, say again;
# I ask again, I say again;
# Here too, here also, in this case as well;
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(label) In any other place.
(label) On the other hand.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564–1616)
Moreover; besides; further.
* (rfdate) Hersche
(obsolete or dialectal) Against.
* 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
* 1924 , J H Wilkinson, Leeds Dialect Glossary and Lore , page 60
* 2003 , Glasgow Sunday Herald, page 16, column 2:
As a noun revert
is one who, or that which, reverts.As a verb revert
is (now rare) to turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.As an adverb again is
(label) back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.As a preposition again is
(obsolete or dialectal) against.revert
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.
citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
- 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.
again
English
(wikipedia again)Alternative forms
* againe, agayne, ageyne (obsolete); agin (colloquial or humorous)Adverb
(-)- And after they were warned in ther slepe, that they shulde not go ageyne to Herod, they retourned into ther awne countre another way.
The China Governess, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
- but Merlyn warned the kynge couertly that gweneuer was not holsome for hym to take to wyf / for he warned hym that launcelot shold loue her and she hym ageyne
- So women are never angrie, but to the end a man should againe be angrie with them, therein imitating the lawes of Love.
- Thus men are plagued with women, they again with men, when they are of diverse humours and conditions.
- As he lies in the light before a glaring white target, the black upon him shines again .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’
- He tangled in tree-tops again' and ' again / And barely missed hitting a tri-motored plane.
- Johnny said, “Devil, just come on back if you ever want to try again / I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I’m the best that’s ever been.”
- The last sentence is so shocking, I have to read it again .
pp.229–230:
- Cirri l-lxxx, 15, about 12mm. long; first two joints short, about twice as broad as long; third about one-third again' [=one and one-third times] as long as broad; fourth and fifth the longest, about half ' again [=one and a half times] as long as broad;.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again , the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- (Francis Bacon)
- The one is my sovereignthe other again is my kinsman.
- Again , it is of great consequence to avoid, etc.
Derived terms
* again and again * again-coming * once againPreposition
(English prepositions)- And here begynneth the treson of Kynge Marke that he ordayned agayne Sir Trystram.
- Ah'd like to wahrn (warn) thi agaan 'evvin owt to dew wi' that chap.
- You may think you are all on the same side, agin the government.