English Dictionary

revert

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɨˈvɝt/

動詞

古語 他動詞 自動詞 ムスリム用法 香港英語 マレーシア英語 シンガポール英語 未分類 非標準 禁用

(transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse. / To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. / (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）元の状態または反対の状態に戻す、逆転させる。 / （他動詞）反射させる、反響させる。 / （他動詞）以前の状態に戻らせる。

The ancient ritual promised to revert the river's current and send the waters flowing in the opposite direction.

古代の儀式は川の流れを反転させ、水が逆方向に流れるようにすると約束されていた。

意味（1）

(transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.

意味（2）

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.

意味（4）

(intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.

If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To return to the possession of.

意味（6）

(intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

意味（7）

(transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

意味（9）

(intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

意味（10）

(intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

意味（11）

(intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.

意味（12）

(intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.

He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam.

意味（13）

(intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).

Please revert before Monday.

意味（14）

(transitive, mathematics) 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.

reverts （ present singular third-person ）

reverting （ participle present ）

reverted （ participle past ）

reverted （ past ）