Revert vs Returned - What's the difference?
revert | returned |
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 .
(return)
To come or go back (to a place or person).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
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(obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
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*:‘I suppose here is none woll be glad to returne – and as for me,’ seyde Sir Cador, ‘I had lever dye this day that onys to turne my bak.’
(obsolete) To turn (something) round.
*, Bk.X, Ch.xiij:
*:Whan Kyng Marke harde hym sey that worde, he returned his horse and abode by hym.
To put (place) something back where it had been.
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To give something back to its original holder or owner.
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To take something back to a retailer for a refund.
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To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
*Bible, 1 Kings ii.44
*:The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.
(tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
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(card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
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(cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
To say in reply; to respond.
:to return''' an answer; to '''return thanks
*1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew)
*:‘Ah my good friend, I do look out!’ the young man returned while Maisie helped herself afresh to bread and butter.
(computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
(computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
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(dated) To retort; to throw back.
:to return the lie
*Dryden
*:If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.
To report, or bring back and make known.
:to return the result of an election
*Bible, Exodus xix.8
*:And all the people answered together,and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.
(by extension, UK) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
The act of returning.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
A return ticket.
An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
An answer.
An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
Gain or loss from an investment.
* Jeremy Taylor
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 22, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC Sport
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, title= (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
(computing) A carriage return character.
(computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
(American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
(cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
As verbs the difference between revert and returned
is that revert is (now rare) to turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse while returned is (return).As a noun revert
is one who, or that which, reverts.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.
returned
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Verb
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*return
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "return") * return to formNoun
(en noun)- a return to one's question
- election returns'''; a '''return of the amount of goods produced or sold
- The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.
Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Liverpool have now won only five of their 17 home league games this season. It is a poor return for a team of Liverpool's pedigree and resources but, once again, Kenny Dalglish's team were the instigators of their own downfall as chance after chance went begging.}}
The rise of smart beta, passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return' of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of ' return .}}
- A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
