revert

English

/ɹɨˈvɝt/, /ɹɨˈvɜːt/, /ˈɹiˌvɝt/, /ˈɹiːvɜːt/

noun
Definitions
  • One who, or that which, reverts.
  • (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
  • (Islam) A convert to Islam.
  • (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

Etymology

Root from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (turn, rotate, wind, spin, twist, become, bend, turn out).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*wert-

Gloss

turn, rotate, wind, spin, twist, become, bend, turn out

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

風

Emoji
🙃

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