un-
alternate
flip
switch
interchange
tack
flip-flop
undo
turn round
backwards
backward
reversal
reversely
reversative
put the shoe on the other foot
reversally
anti-
inverse
in reverse
undecide
overturn
crossback
misobey
backout
revere
R
reversible
retroverse
backing
iterate
backsie
turn about
reverseways
flipside
countermeasure
uncause
flip side
reversewise
reversing
flop
unparse
reversive
reverser
dis-
renversement
actionlike
gain-
reverse
contra
invert
back
retrograde
reversion
-ate
invertedly
fly in the face of
undoing
impose
gostun
revertive
arse about face
mix up
converse
reversedly
enforce
constrain
antimetabole
backscratch
act
commutate
do
unfeel
behave
contragredient
counterreversal
the other way around
reversible process
reversalism
correction
rectification
countermaneuver
reciprocatory
the other way round
offset
override
contrariwise
vice versa
interplay
reversal
reversative
inverse
R
reversible
retroverse
reversive
actionlike
reverse
retrograde
revertive
converse
contragredient
reciprocatory
backwards
backward
reversely
reversally
reverseways
reversewise
back
invertedly
arse about face
reversedly
the other way around
the other way round
contrariwise
vice versa
undo
inverse
crossback
backout
revere
backing
backsie
flipside
countermeasure
flip side
reversing
reverser
renversement
reversion
undoing
converse
antimetabole
counterreversal
reversible process
reversalism
correction
rectification
interplay
reversal
alternate
flip
switch
interchange
tack
flip-flop
turn round
undo
put the shoe on the other foot
undecide
overturn
misobey
iterate
turn about
uncause
flop
unparse
reverse
contra
invert
fly in the face of
impose
gostun
mix up
enforce
constrain
backscratch
act
commutate
do
unfeel
behave
countermaneuver
offset
override
prefix
- do the opposite of, reverse (a specified action)
- contrary to or contrasted against traditional norms; unconventional; alternative
- Used to form temporary names of elements (such as unbiunium) whose existence has been predicted, and have not yet been given a trivial name.
- absent; lacking; not; negative
- deprive of, release from, free from, remove from, extract from
- intensifying a verb that already suggests opposition or removal
- not
- Used to form large numbers as the first in the sequence.
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns
adj
- every second one of a series
- serving or used in place of another
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
noun
adj
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- lightly throw to see which side comes up
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- look through a book or other written material
- toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
- cause to move with a flick
- throw or toss with a light motion
- move with a flick or light motion
- turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
- react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way
- go mad, go crazy
noun
- an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
- hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg
- a sudden, quick movement
- the act of flipping a coin
- a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
adj
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- make a shift in or exchange of
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
noun
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- cause to change places
noun
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- fasten with tacks
- turn into the wind
- create by putting components or members together
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- fix to; attach
noun
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- sailing a zigzag course
verb
- To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
- To revolve or rotate around a centre.
- To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
prefix
- Opposite of, reverse.
- Related to antiparticles or antimatter.
- Against, hostile to.
- Physically opposite: applied to mountain ranges.
- Indicating that a game's conventional victory conditions have been reversed: misère.
- Counteracting, neutralizing.
- Contrasting with the norm.
- That reacts with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
noun
- The reverse of any procedure or process.
- The result of a circle inversion; the set of all such points; the curve described by such a set.
- A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
- A ratio etc. in which the antecedents and consequents are switched.
- The negative of a given number.
- A second function which, when combined with the initially given function, yields as its output any term inputted into the first function.
- The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that first dealt; the area of the table reserved for bets upon such an outcome.
- A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
- The non-truth-preserving proposition constructed by negating both the premise and conclusion of an initially given proposition.
- One divided by a given number.
- An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside out or backwards.
adj
- Reverse, opposite in order.
- Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
- Opposite in effect, nature or order.
- Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity.
- That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point or geometrical figure); that is constructed by circle inversion.
- Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
verb
verb
- To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
- To turn over, capsize or upset.
- To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
- To overthrow or destroy.
- Of a body of water: to undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
noun
noun
- A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.
- An "X"-shaped railroad crossing sign.
- A Catholic.
- A hairpin bend.
- A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
- A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
- A cross between a hybrid species and one of the original parent species.
- The species resulting from a crossback.
- The measurement from the outer edge of one shoulder blade to the outer edge of the other.
- Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
- A cross-course.
verb
adj
name
character
noun
- rex (“king”) or regina (“queen”); the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name
- the Crown, the government of a monarchy (abbreviating rex (“king”) or regina (“queen”))
- rook
- Thursday
- Republican
- ring
- runs, the statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player
- radius
noun
- The reverse, in contrast to the obverse.
- A necessary consequence or corollary of something that acts as a negation or counterbalance; especially one seen as opposite, or as pro versus con.
- The B-side of a phonograph record.
- The occasion when we meet again (e.g. when I return from work, etc.; said on parting); later or tomorrow.
noun
verb
- To flip; to reverse (an image).
- To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- To cause to drop heavily.
- To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
noun
- The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
- An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
- A flophouse.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
intj
adv
adj
verb
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- change to the contrary
- turn inside out or upside down
- rule against
- cancel officially
noun
- a relation of direct opposition
- the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design
- (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction
- turning in the opposite direction
adj
verb
adv
noun
- A deal to swap goods or services.
- A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- A contra dance.
prep
adv
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
postp
adj
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adv
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
noun
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
noun
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- The action of reverting something.
- The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- An estate which has been returned in this manner.
suffix
noun
- The opposite or reverse.
- Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
- One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
- Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true.".
adj
verb
verb
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- be suitable for theatrical performance
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- be engaged in an activity, often for no particular purpose other than pleasure
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
noun
verb
- To reverse the direction of (a current).
- To commute; to change one kind of payment into another, especially to convert from several installments to a single lumpsum payment.
- To commute; to be invariant under a reversal of the positions of operands.
- To transform, especially into a reversed or opposite form.
- To convert from being or using an alternating current into being or using a direct current.
- To remove or reduce the legal obligations or restrictions on
verb
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- engage in
- carry out or perform an action
- get (something) done
- proceed or get along
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- create or design, often in a certain way
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- carry on or function
- arrange attractively
- travel or traverse (a distance)
noun
noun
noun
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- something substituted for an error
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- the act of disciplining
- treatment of a specific defect
noun
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
- the conversion of alternating current to direct current
- determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve
verb
- To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- To place out of line.
noun
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- A terrace on a hillside.
- The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
verb
- To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- To ride across or beyond something.
noun
- A royalty.
- A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
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