reversed
逆转的,反转的,反向的,反转
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Definitions
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- : opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- : with the back or rear part toward the observer: the reverse side of a fabric.
- : pertaining to or producing movement in a mechanism opposite to that made under ordinary running conditions: a reverse gear; a reverse turbine.
- : acting in a manner opposite or contrary to that which is usual, as an appliance or apparatus.
- : noting or pertaining to an image like that seen in a mirror; backward; reversed.
- : noting or pertaining to printed matter in which what is normally white, as the page of a book, appears as black, and vice versa.
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- : the opposite or contrary of something.
- : the back or rear of anything.
- : Numismatics. the side of a coin, medal, etc., that does not bear the principal design.the side of an ancient coin that was struck by the upper die.
- : an adverse change of fortune; a misfortune, check, or defeat: to meet with an unexpected reverse.
- : Machinery. the condition of being reversed: to throw an engine into reverse.a reversing mechanism.
- : Football. a play on offense in which one back running laterally hands the ball to another back who is running in the opposite direction and who then makes either an end run or a cutback.
- : Bridge. reverse bid.
- : Printing. printed matter in which areas that normally appear as white are printed in black, and vice versa.
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re·versed, re·vers·ing.
- : to turn in an opposite position; transpose: The printer accidently reversed two chapters of the book.
- : to turn in the opposite direction; send on the opposite course.
- : to turn inside out or upside down.
- : to change the direction of running of.
- : to cause to run in a direction opposite to that in which it commonly runs.
- : to revoke or annul: to reverse a verdict.
- : to alter to the opposite in character or tendency; change completely.
- : to turn in the opposite order: to reverse the process of evolution.
- : Printing. to print as a reverse.
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re·versed, re·vers·ing.
- : to shift into reverse gear: The driver drove forward, then reversed.
- : to be reversed.
- : to turn or move in the opposite or contrary direction, as in dancing.
- : Bridge. to make a reverse bid.
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Examples
Amid a reckoning of racism has come a financial one, aimed at reversing decades of underinvestment in communities of color.
Effects of Earth’s magnetic field — Science News, November 21, 1970Earth’s magnetic field has frequently reversed at intervals of 1 million to 100 million years.
No one would even blink at that age difference if the genders were reversed.
It reverses completely the way the designers perform the function thanks to the artificial intelligence.
One could actually consider it a reverse subscription, since people receive rewards for their patronage.
Although there have been versions recorded where the roles are reversed.
Facing a political backlash, they reversed course in 2011 and announced that the military commission process would be restarted.
The series also reversed a long trend that saw the character paralyzed by the Joker and confined to a wheelchair for a decade.
Fortunes reversed and what was far-fetched yesterday was suddenly closer to fact.
In 2013, however, Paul released another budget proposal that reversed course.
Now if we double the last 16, it gives us the date of the second Folio in 32 and 32 reversed gives us the date of the first Folio.
Pete, after spewing the last hateful molecule away, reversed his tiny fibre engines, and began to draw in.
After the ice passed away the movements were reversed, the northern region rising and the southern sinking down.
Blood must always tell in England—although in America—if Mrs. Hofer is a type—well, this is the land of reversed theories.
Death was what the Marquise expected, since she knew that death would she herself have pronounced had the positions been reversed.