Reverted vs Retorted - What's the difference?
reverted | retorted |
(revert)
That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).
Bent back, reversed.
Directed backwards.
* 1795 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb’:
(retort)
A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
* Milton
To bend or curve back.
* Southey
To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
* Shakespeare
(chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
:* 1893', A large curved ' retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.670)
A container in which material is subjected to high temperatures]] as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and [[forge, forging of metal.
As verbs the difference between reverted and retorted
is that reverted is (revert) while retorted is (retort).As an adjective reverted
is that has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc).reverted
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- With many a pause and oft reverted eye / I climb the Coomb's ascent [...].
retorted
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Verb
(head)retort
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(wikipedia retort)Etymology 1
From (etyl) retortus, from .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=“It is a pity,” he retorted with aggravating meekness, “that they do not use a little common sense. The case resembles that of Columbus' ?egg, and is every bit as simple. […]”}}
- to retort the charge of vanity
- And with retorted scorn his back he turned.
- a retorted line
- With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated.
- As when his virtues, shining upon others, / Heat them and they retort that heat again / To the first giver.
