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I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Meaning of "revert" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD REVERT

From Latin revertere to return, from re- + vertere to turn.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF REVERT

revert  [rɪˈvɜːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REVERT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Revert is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb revert in English.

WHAT DOES REVERT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of revert in the English dictionary

The first definition of revert in the dictionary is to go back to a former practice, condition, belief, etc. Other definition of revert is to take up again or come back to a former topic. Revert is also to return to a more primitive, earlier, or simpler condition or type.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO REVERT

PRESENT

Present
I revert
you revert
he/she/it reverts
we revert
you revert
they revert
Present continuous
I am reverting
you are reverting
he/she/it is reverting
we are reverting
you are reverting
they are reverting
Present perfect
I have reverted
you have reverted
he/she/it has reverted
we have reverted
you have reverted
they have reverted
Present perfect continuous
I have been reverting
you have been reverting
he/she/it has been reverting
we have been reverting
you have been reverting
they have been reverting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I reverted
you reverted
he/she/it reverted
we reverted
you reverted
they reverted
Past continuous
I was reverting
you were reverting
he/she/it was reverting
we were reverting
you were reverting
they were reverting
Past perfect
I had reverted
you had reverted
he/she/it had reverted
we had reverted
you had reverted
they had reverted
Past perfect continuous
I had been reverting
you had been reverting
he/she/it had been reverting
we had been reverting
you had been reverting
they had been reverting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will revert
you will revert
he/she/it will revert
we will revert
you will revert
they will revert
Future continuous
I will be reverting
you will be reverting
he/she/it will be reverting
we will be reverting
you will be reverting
they will be reverting
Future perfect
I will have reverted
you will have reverted
he/she/it will have reverted
we will have reverted
you will have reverted
they will have reverted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been reverting
you will have been reverting
he/she/it will have been reverting
we will have been reverting
you will have been reverting
they will have been reverting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would revert
you would revert
he/she/it would revert
we would revert
you would revert
they would revert
Conditional continuous
I would be reverting
you would be reverting
he/she/it would be reverting
we would be reverting
you would be reverting
they would be reverting
Conditional perfect
I would have revert
you would have revert
he/she/it would have revert
we would have revert
you would have revert
they would have revert
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been reverting
you would have been reverting
he/she/it would have been reverting
we would have been reverting
you would have been reverting
they would have been reverting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you revert
we let´s revert
you revert
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to revert
Past participle
reverted
Present Participle
reverting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REVERT


advert
ˈædvɜːt
animadvert
ˌænɪmædˈvɜːt
antevert
ˌæntɪˈvɜːt
avert
əˈvɜːt
convert
kənˈvɜːt
divert
daɪˈvɜːt
evert
ɪˈvɜːt
extravert
ˈɛkstrəˌvɜːt
interconvert
ˌɪntəkənˈvɜːt
introvert
ˈɪntrəˌvɜːt
invert
ɪnˈvɜːt
obvert
ɒbˈvɜːt
overt
ˈəʊvɜːt
pervert
pəˈvɜːt
reconvert
ˌriːkənˈvɜːt
retrovert
ˌrɛtrəʊˈvɜːt
seroconvert
ˌsɪərəʊkənˈvɜːt
subvert
səbˈvɜːt
unpervert
ˌʌnpəˈvɜːt
vert
vɜːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REVERT

reversi
reversibility
reversible
reversibly
Reversing Falls
reversing light
reversion
reversional
reversionally
reversionary
reversionary bonus
reversioner
reversis
reverso
revert to type
revertant
reverter
revertible
revertive
revery

WORDS THAT END LIKE REVERT

ambivert
blipvert
Calvert
controvert
couvert
covert
culvert
discovert
feme covert
gladvert
j´ouvert
Kilvert
millisievert
sievert
tail covert
taivert
undercovert
vetivert
wing covert

Synonyms and antonyms of revert in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «REVERT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «revert» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of revert

Translation of «revert» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REVERT

Find out the translation of revert to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of revert from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «revert» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恢复 >
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

volver a
570 millions of speakers

English

revert
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वापस लौटने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العودة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вернуться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

reverter
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রত্যাবর্তন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

revenir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kembali
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zurückkehren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

戻る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 되돌아가다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bali
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trở lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாற்றியமைக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परत या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dönmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tornare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przywrócić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

повернутися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

reveni
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επανέλθει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

terugkeer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

återgå
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tilbake
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of revert

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REVERT»

The term «revert» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.934 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REVERT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about revert

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7 QUOTES WITH «REVERT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word revert.
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Katherine Helmond
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.
2
Walter Kohn
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
3
Mark Lawrenson
If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.
4
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
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Barry Ritholtz
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
6
Esperanza Spalding
I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.
7
Marguerite Young
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REVERT»

Discover the use of revert in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to revert and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dreamweaver CS5 All-in-One For Dummies
Inevitably, a time comes when you need to revert to the last saved version of a file . During each work session, Dreamweaver allows you to revert to the previously saved version, whether that's the state the file was in when you opened it or the ...
Sue Jenkins, Richard Wagner, 2010
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Why and when do spot prices of crude oil revert to futures ...
Recent studies of crude oil price formation emphasize the role of interest rates and convenience yield (the adjusted spot-futures spread), confirming that spot prices mean-revert and normally exceed discounted futures.
Mark W. French, 2005
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Practical Perforce
For example, to revert the index.html file in the current directory: p4 revert index. html (The revert command doesn't have a default argument—it won't revert all the files in your workspace, for example, unless you give it an argument whose view  ...
Laura Wingerd, 2005
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
A reverter is a lesser interest — a possibility that the land might revert — arising when a grant is limited so that it might terminate. A reversion occurs automatically upon termination of the prior estate (as when a life tenant dies), whereas a ...
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
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SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
If you want to discard the results of a gradual upgrade for a particular site and need to revert to the previous version site, you can do so by using the following procedure. Reverting back to the previous sites deletes the upgraded sites. Be sure ...
James Pyles, Christopher M. Buechler, Bob Fox, 2007
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Youth Leaving the Church: How to Revert This Trend
Why do so many youth become disenchanted with the Christian Church? This book discusses possible reasons why youth leave the church and suggests ways to reverse these trends. This book answers the questions: Why Church?
Joyce T. Henderson, 2001
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iPhoto 09 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
It turns out that Revert to Original isn't doing anything complicated. When you edit a photo, iPhoto makes a copy ofthe original in a folder named for the photo's event, stored in the Modified folder. As long as this happens, you can recover the  ...
Adam Engst, 2009
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IPhoto 6: The Missing Manual
In that event, the Revert to Original command will be dimmed when you select the edited photo. Bottom line: If you want the warmth and security of Revert to Original at your disposal, don't edit your pictures behind iPhoto's back. Follow the  ...
David Pogue, Derrick Story, 2006
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0: A Visual Introduction to ...
Undo,. Revert. and. Undo. History. With so many options available for changing images, it's almost inevitable that occasionally you will want to reverse a change that you have made. One way to step back through your ...
Philip Andrews, 2007
10
IBM System Storage N series Hardware Guide
The N series does not support NDU for the revert process for DOT 8 7-mode. The following restrictions apply to the revert process: User data is temporarily offline and unavailable during the revert. You must plan when the data is offline to limit ...
Roland Tretau, Jeff Lin, Dirk Peitzmann, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REVERT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term revert is used in the context of the following news items.
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Revert back to Yosemite from El Capitan
You can't boot your Mac into Recovery mode and revert to Yosemite because this method can only be used for reinstalling the system that's currently on the Mac, ... «Macworld UK, Jul 15»
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Done with the El Capitan public beta? Here's how to revert your Mac …
It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Sure, installing a beta operating system can be fun and games—you get to try out the new features and see the ... «Macworld, Jul 15»
3
Revert to Ringgit peg to stabilise currency, says analyst
KUALA LUMPUR: The government has been urged to revert to the system of pegging the ringgit to counter its current depreciation and enable it to stabilise . «Astro Awani, Jul 15»
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Harrison County among 11 counties to revert to traditional order …
Other counties that decided to revert to the traditional order include Brooke, Calhoun, Greenbrier, Hardy, Kanawha, Mason, Morgan, Pendleton, Putnam and ... «The Exponent Telegram, Jun 15»
5
Rented commercial properties to revert to their owners in 2028 after …
A sunset clause on rent for business properties leased from both the government and private owners is soon to come into effect whereby the properties will ... «Malta Independent Online, Jun 15»
6
Sandberg: Slumping Galvis needs to revert to shortened swing
It's the same approach Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg would like Galvis to revert to now that the 25-year-old shortstop is mired in a slump. Galvis, whose ... «Philly.com, Jun 15»
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Revert raises $1.2M in second round funding
New Zealand-based cloud backup specialist Revert has secured a further $1.2 million in funding bringing the total funding received to date to over $1.6 million. «Scoop.co.nz, Apr 15»
8
600 Chinese Workers Revert to Islam in Saudi
The workers' and engineers decision to revert to Islam followed hard work from scholars in Taneem Da`wah office, Saudi paper Sabq reported on Tuesday. «Onislam.net, Apr 15»
9
UP row over move to revert Irrigation Dept. employees
The Uttar Pradesh government's decision to revert the employees of the Irrigation Department who had benefited from reservation in promotion is likely to ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»
10
GraceKennedy Group CEO calls for Government to revert to Junior …
"I recommend strongly that the Government of Jamaica revert to the Junior Stock Exchange's original incentive scheme, so that small businesses can grow.". «Jamaica Gleaner, Mar 15»

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