reverse

/ɹɪˈvɜːs/ · noun

Meaning

The opposite of something.
The act of going backwards; a reversal.
A piece of misfortune; a setback.
The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
To turn something inside out or upside down.
To transpose the positions of two things.
To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
To return, come back.
To turn away; to cause to depart.
Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
(of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
Reversed.
In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.

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