Meaning

One who, or that which, reverts..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
3. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
4. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
6. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
7. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
8. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.

Example Sentences

[...] 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].

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.

We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]

Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.

The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.

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.

Word Forms

• reverts
• reverting
• reverted

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