Revert vs Resume - What's the difference?
revert | resume |
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.
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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 .
A summary or synopsis.
* 1919 , (Saki) (Hector Hugh Munro), ‘Excepting Mrs. Pentherby’, The Toys of Peace :
* 1978 , Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia , Volumes 102-103,
* 1999 , The Guardian , 14 Jun 1999:
* 2005 , Tony Martin, Lolly Scramble: A Memoir of Little Consequence , Pan Macmillan Australia,
* 2006 , Helen Borger, Human Resources , Career FAQs, Australia,
* 2011 , Monica Makari, How to Find a Job in Australia , Revised edition, How to...Books, Australia,
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* 1995 , Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu",
As nouns the difference between revert and resume
is that revert is one who, or that which, reverts while résumé is a summary or synopsis.As verbs the difference between revert and resume
is that revert is to turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse while resume is to take back possession of (something).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.
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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.
resume
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Alternative forms
* resume,Noun
(en noun)- On one occasion Mrs. Val Gwepton, who was not blessed with the most reposeful of temperaments, fairly let herself go, and gave Mrs. Pentherby a vivid and truthful résumé of her opinion of her.
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- A résumé of diagnostic characters of the five families represented in Australia is also given, and a list of the 19 genera described from Australia is included
- However, a brief résumé of recent weddings, royal and otherwise, reveals that Edward and Sophie's big day could be in danger of being badly out of step.
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- It was this piffling résumé that accompanied me to Auckland, where I hoped to get a foot in with the city?s biggest ‘nonprofessional’ theatre group, the New Independent.
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- Résumés have a particular structure that you should follow – it?s what you say in it that makes yours stand out from the rest.
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- A well written CV (Curriculum Vitae) or résumé is the most important document when looking for a job, your first opportunity to present yourself and it can open or close the door to an interview.
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Wired Magazine
- The match between Stiegler and Xanadu was doubly unlikely; not only was Stiegler happily unemployed, but the Xanadu programmers did not seem to place high value on management personnel. As Stiegler tells it, the original plan during the first days at Autodesk was to get somebody with a good résumé and stick him in a closet until somebody from Autodesk came to visit, at which point the obedient manager could be trotted out to prove that the hackers were under control. This was hardly Stiegler's style.