Usually means: Turning or moving in opposite direction.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word reverse:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. reverse, the reverse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reverse, the reverse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reverse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reverse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reverse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reverse, reverse: Wordnik
  7. reverse, the reverse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reverse: Wiktionary
  9. reverse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reverse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reverse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reverse: Dictionary.com
  13. reverse (adv./adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reverse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reverse (American football), Reverse (Eldritch album), Reverse (Morandi album), Reverse (TV series), Reverse (bridge), Reverse (coin), Reverse (film), Reverse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reverse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reverse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reverse: Rhymezone
  19. reverse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reverse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Reverse (a car, etc.): Britih-American Dictionary
  22. reverse: Free Dictionary
  23. reverse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. reverse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. reverse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. reverse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. reverse: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Reverse: Numismatic Dictionary

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  5. reverse: Legal dictionary
  6. reverse: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reverse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reverse: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reverse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. re.verse, reverse, reverse [indian rotation], reverse [inian rotation]: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reverse: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Reverse: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. reverse: Coin Collecting
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
adjective:  Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
adjective:  (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
adjective:  Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
adjective:  (botany) Reversed.
adjective:  (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
adverb:  (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.
noun:  The opposite of something.
noun:  The act of going backwards; a reversal.
noun:  A piece of misfortune; a setback.
noun:  (numismatics) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
noun:  The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
noun:  The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
noun:  A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
noun:  (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
verb:  (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
verb:  (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
verb:  (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
verb:  (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
verb:  (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
verb:  (ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
verb:  (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
verb:  (rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
verb:  (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
verb:  (aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
verb:  To overthrow; to subvert.
verb:  (computing) Short for reverse-engineer. [To derive or duplicate the design, technical specifications, manufacturing methods, or functionality of an object by studying an existing product, prototype, etc.]

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