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Revert vs Reserve - What's the difference?

revert | reserve |

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 adjective reserve is

reserved.

revert

English

(reversion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.
  • * 2010 , Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250 (page 77)
  • genuine — if intentionally vague — concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts
  • (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
  • We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  • * Prior
  • Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
  • * Thomson
  • The tumbling stream / Reverted , plays in undulating flow.
  • To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  • To cause to return to a former condition.
  • (now rare) To return; to come back.
  • * Shakespeare
  • So that my arrows / Would have reverted to my bow again.
  • 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 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.}}
  • (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
  • 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.
  • * 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
  • The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.
  • * 2003 , Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumu?ah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12
  • 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.
  • (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 .
  • reserve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Restriction.
  • # The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation; exception.
  • .
  • # Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
  • That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
  • # A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-25, author= Martin Lukacs
  • , volume=190, issue=20, page=13, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy , passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}
  • # A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
  • # (label) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US (reservation).)
  • # (label) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
  • # (label) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
  • # Wine held back and aged before being sold.
  • (label) Something initially kept back for later use in a recreation.
  • # (label) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
  • # (label) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
  • Synonyms

    * reservation, res * (restraint of freedom in words or actions) self-restraint, reticence, taciturnity * substitute * (tract of land for Aboriginal peoples) rez

    Derived terms

    * Federal Reserve * Federal Reserve System * nature reserve * reserve bank * reserve price * wildlife reserve

    Verb

  • To keep back; to retain.
  • We reserve the right to make modifications.
  • To keep in store for future or special use.
  • This cake is reserved for the guests!
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.
  • To book in advance; to make a reservation.
  • I reserved a table for us at the best restaurant in town.
  • (obsolete) To make an exception of; to except.
  • Anagrams

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