Definizione monolingua

reverse

reverse (third-person singular simple present reverses, present participle reversing, simple past and past participle reversed)

1. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
2. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
3. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:

     Bene they all dead, and laid in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse?

5. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
6. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction.
7. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
8. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position
9. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position

reverse (plural reverses)

1. The opposite of front.
2. The opposite of forward.
3. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
4. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.

reverse (comparative more reverse, superlative most reverse)

1. Having the order of its constituents moved backwards in time or space.

   We ate the meal in reverse order with the dessert first and ending with the starter.

   The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.

2. Causing movement in the opposite direction.

   He selected reverse gear.

3. (rail transport, of points) to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.

reverse (comparative more reverse, superlative most reverse)

1. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII:

     they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.

   • 1963, Donal Serrell Thomas, Points of Contact:

     The man was killed to feed his image fat / Within this pictured world that ran reverse, / Where miracles alone were ever plain.

Definizione dizionario reverse

	contrario
	A relation of direct opposition.

	invertirsi
	Diventare l'opposto di quello che era prima.
	To become the opposite one of what it was before.

	retromarcia
	gear

capovolgere

contrasto

fare retromarcia

inverso

invertire

marcia indietro

opposto

revocare

rinviare

rivoltare

rovesciare

rovescio

stornare

verso

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.

to turn something around

The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.

(intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.

to turn something inside out

(rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position

(ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction.

(rail transport, of points) to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.

(law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.

Causing movement in the opposite direction.

(obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.

The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.

(rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position

Having the order of its constituents moved backwards in time or space.

(chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.

The opposite of front.

(now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.

tails (of coins)

The opposite of forward.

opposite of front

(intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.

change (mind)

exchange (things)

To turn around, go in the opposite direction.

having the order of its constituents moved backwards