Invert vs. Revert
Invertverb
(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
‘to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.’;
Revertnoun
One who, or that which, reverts.
Invertverb
To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
Revertnoun
(religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
Invertverb
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
Revertnoun
A convert to Islam.
Invertverb
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
Revertnoun
(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.’;
Invertnoun
A homosexual.
Revertverb
To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
Invertnoun
(architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *
Revertverb
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
Invertnoun
The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
Revertverb
(transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
Invertnoun
(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
Revertverb
To return; to come back.
‘If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.’;
Invertnoun
(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
Revertverb
(intransitive) To return to the possession of.
‘When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.’;
Invertnoun
A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
Revertverb
Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
Invertnoun
invertebrate
Revertverb
(transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
‘Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.’;
Invertadjective
(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
‘invert sugar’;
Revertverb
(intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
Invertverb
To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
‘That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,As if these organs had deceptious functions.’; ‘Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone,Wanting its proper base to stand upon.’;
Revertverb
To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
Invertverb
To change the position of; - said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
Revertverb
(intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
‘Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.’;
Invertverb
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
Revertverb
(intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
Invertverb
To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
Revertverb
To convert to Islam.
Invertverb
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
Revertverb
To reply (to correspondence, for example).
‘Please revert before Monday.’;
Invertadjective
Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
Revertverb
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.
Invertnoun
An inverted arch.
Revertverb
To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
‘Till happy chance revert the cruel scence.’; ‘The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow.’;
Invertverb
make an inversion (in a musical composition);
‘here the theme is inverted’;
Revertverb
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
Invertverb
turn inside out or upside down
Revertverb
To change back. See Revert, v. i.
Revertverb
To return; to come back.
‘So that my arrowsWould have reverted to my bow again.’;
Revertverb
To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
Revertverb
To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
Revertverb
To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
Revertnoun
One who, or that which, reverts.
‘An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith.’;
Revertverb
go back to a previous state;
‘We reverted to the old rules’;
Revertverb
undergo reversion, as in a mutation
