Respond vs. Revert

Respondverb

To say something in return; to answer; to reply.

‘to respond to a question or an argument’;

Revertnoun

One who, or that which, reverts.

Respondverb

(intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response

Revertnoun

(religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another

Respondverb

(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.

Revertnoun

A convert to Islam.

Respondverb

(transitive) To satisfy; to answer.

‘The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.’;

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.’;

Respondnoun

A response.

Revertverb

To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

Respondnoun

A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.

Revertverb

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

Respondnoun

(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

Revertverb

(transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.

Respondverb

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

Revertverb

To return; to come back.

‘If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.’;

Respondverb

To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.

‘A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe.’; ‘To every theme responds thy various lay.’;

Revertverb

(intransitive) To return to the possession of.

‘When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.’;

Respondverb

To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.

Revertverb

Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

Respondverb

To answer; to reply.

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.’;

Respondverb

To suit or accord with; to correspond to.

‘For his great deeds respond his speeches great.’;

Revertverb

(intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

Respondnoun

An answer; a response.

Revertverb

To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

Respondnoun

A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.

Revertverb

(intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

‘Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.’;

Respondnoun

A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.

Revertverb

(intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.

Respondverb

show a response or a reaction to something

Revertverb

To convert to Islam.

Respondverb

reply or respond to;

‘She didn't want to answer’; ‘answer the question’; ‘We answered that we would accept the invitation’;

Revertverb

To reply (to correspondence, for example).

‘Please revert before Monday.’;

Respondverb

respond favorably or as hoped;

‘The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy’;

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.

Respond

A respond is a half-pier or half-pillar which is bonded into a wall and designed to carry the springer at one end of an 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.’;

Revertverb

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

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