[{"word":"reverts","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"One who, or that which, reverts.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To cause to return to a former condition.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(now rare) To return; to come back.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"If they attack, we will revert to the bunker."},{"definition":"To return to the possession of.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author."},{"definition":"To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print."},{"definition":"To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts."},{"definition":"To take up again or return to a previous topic.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Please revert before Monday."},{"definition":"To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revert","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reverts"]}]