revert
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Is revert a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.Examples: "[...] 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]."
2. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.Examples: "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."; "Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one."
3. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.Examples: "We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges."
verb (English)
1. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.Examples: "Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene."; "The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow."archaictransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.Examples: "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."transitive
3. (transitive) To reverse (a change).Examples: "This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level."; "You can use page histories to easily revert (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit."; "When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too."transitive
4. (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).Examples: "When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too."; "She has, in other words, two beliefs: βc (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she cooperated) and βr (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she :Template:.."transitive
5. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.Examples: "When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author."intransitive
6. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary