revert

noun reverts

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another. [...] Cyril III ibn Laqlaq’s correspondence which reflects genuine—if intentionally vague—concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts [who had converted to Islam before].
3. A convert to Islam. Zeba Siddiqui, herself a revert and editor of the Parent's Manual: A Guide for Muslim Parents Living in North America, contributed to this book as a consultant.
4. 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.
5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground. In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]

verb reverts · reverting · reverted

1. archaic, transitive To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse. Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. transitive To cause to return to a former condition. Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes / Too ſlightly timbred for ſo loud a Winde, / Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe, / And not where I had arm’d them.

   Similar: restore, roll back

4. transitive To reverse (a change). This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level.

   Similar: undo

5. transitive To reverse a change made by (a person). When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.
6. intransitive To return to the possession of. When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
7. intransitive Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
8. 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.

   Similar: give back, restore, reinstate, render, return, revest, surrender

9. intransitive To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc. 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.
10. intransitive To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
11. intransitive To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse. Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
12. intransitive, nonstandard To take up again or return to a previous topic.

    Similar: hark back

13. archaic, intransitive To return; to come back. If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
14. intransitive To convert to Islam. 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.
15. intransitive To reply (to correspondence, etc.). Please revert before Monday.

    Similar: revert back

16. transitive 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. First we revert the series expansion (3.6) to give z(#92;zeta) as a series in z.

Similar: deconvert, reconvert, rehabilitate, restitute, restore, revert, roll back · Opposite: convert