Synonyms of the word

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

annul

• v. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
• v. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

backward

• adj. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
• adj. (of motion) Pertaining to the direction reverse of normal.
• adj. Reluctant or unable to advance.
• adj. Of a culture considered undeveloped or unsophisticated.
• adj. Pertaining to a thought or value that is considered outdated.
• adj. (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
• adj. (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
• adj. (obsolete) Unwilling; averse; reluctant.
• adj. Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
• adj. Late or behindhand.
• adj. (obsolete) Already past or gone; bygone.
• adv. (of motion) In the direction towards the back; backwards.
• adv. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
• adv. By way of reflection; reflexively.
• adv. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
• n. The state behind or past.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

cancel

• v. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
• v. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
• v. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
• v. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction,…
• v. (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
• v. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
• v. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
• v. (slang) To kill.
• n. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
• n. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
• n. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

contrary

• adj. Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
• adj. Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent.
• adj. Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.
• adv. Contrarily.
• n. The opposite.
• n. One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true.
• v. (obsolete) To oppose; to frustrate.
• v. (obsolete) To impugn.
• v. (obsolete) To contradict (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To do the opposite of (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to.
• v. (obsolete) To argue; to debate; to uphold an opposite opinion.
• v. (obsolete) To be self-contradictory; to become reversed.

countermand

• v. To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
• v. To recall a person or unit with such an order.
• v. To prohibit; to forbid.
• v. To oppose; to revoke the command of.
• n. An order to the contrary of a previous one.

decree

• n. An edict or law.
• n. (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
• n. (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
• v. To command by a decree.

gear

• n. (uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
• n. Clothing; garments.
• n. (obsolete) goods; property; household items.
• n. (countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices…
• n. (countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio…
• n. (countable) a configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of…
• n. (slang) recreational drugs, including steroids.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) stuff.
• n. (obsolete) business matters; affairs; concern.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
• v. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear…
• v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
• v. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
• adj. (mostly British (Scouse)) great or fantastic.

happening

• v. present participle of happen.
• adj. (slang, of a place) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
• adj. (slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
• n. Something that happens.
• n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

inverse

• adj. Opposite in effect, nature or order.
• adj. Reverse, opposite in order.
• adj. (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
• adj. (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when…
• adj. (geometry) That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point…
• adj. (category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse…
• n. An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside…
• n. The result of an inversion, particularly.
• n. (mathematics) A second element which negates a first; in a binary operation, the element for which the…
• n. (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
• n. (card games) The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that…
• n. (linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number…
• v. (surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.

invert

• v. (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
• v. (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in…
• v. (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
• v. To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
• n. (archaic) A homosexual person.
• n. (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
• n. The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable…
• n. (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
• n. (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
• n. A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance…
• n. (biology, informal) invertebrate.
• adj. (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

occurrence

• n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

occurrent

• adj. Current, actual, occurring.
• n. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.

opposite

• adj. Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
• adj. (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
• adj. Facing in the other direction.
• adj. Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
• adj. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
• n. Something opposite or contrary to another.
• n. An opponent.
• n. An antonym.
• n. (mathematics) An additive inverse.
• adv. In an opposite position.
• prep. Facing, or across from.
• prep. In a complementary role to.
• prep. (television) On another channel at the same time.

oppositeness

• n. The state or condition of being opposite.

opposition

• n. The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
• n. An opposite or contrasting position.
• n. (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees…
• n. (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
• n. (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent…
• n. (chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance…

override

• v. To ride across or beyond something.
• v. To ride a horse too hard.
• v. To counteract the normal operation of something.
• v. (object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the…
• n. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
• n. A royalty.
• n. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.

overrule

• v. (transitive) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
• v. (transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
• v. (transitive) To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
• v. (transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.

overthrow

• v. (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
• v. (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
• n. A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
• n. (sports) A throw that goes too far.
• n. (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence…

overturn

• v. To turn over, capsize or upset (something).
• v. To overthrow or destroy something.
• v. (law) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind.
• v. To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

rearward

• n. The part that comes last or is situated in the rear; conclusion; wind-up.
• n. The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard.
• adj. Toward the back or rear of something.
• adv. Toward the back or rear of something.

reorientation

• n. A new orientation.
• n. The act of changing the direction of something.

repeal

• v. (transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
• v. To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
• v. To suppress; to repel.
• n. An act or instance of repealing.

rescind

• v. (transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of…

reversal

• n. The state of being reversed.
• n. An instance of reversing.
• n. A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
• adj. Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

reversion

• n. The action of reverting something.
• n. The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal.
• n. The fact of being turned the reverse way.
• n. The action of turning something the reverse way.
• n. (law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
• n. (law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
• n. (law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
• n. The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
• n. The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
• n. A sum payable on a person's death.

revoke

• v. (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
• v. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
• v. (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
• v. (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
• v. (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
• n. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
• n. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious…
• n. A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense…

rule

• n. A regulation, law, guideline.
• n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
• n. A regulating principle.
• n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
• n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
• n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
• v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
• v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
• v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

running

• adj. Moving or advancing by running.
• adj. successive; one following the other without break or intervention.
• adj. Flowing; easy; cursive.
• adj. Continuous; keeping along step by step.
• adj. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
• adj. (medicine) Discharging pus.
• adj. (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
• adv. (informal) consecutively; in a row.
• n. The action of the verb to run.
• n. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
• n. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
• n. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
• v. present participle of run.

setback

• n. An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
• n. (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
• n. (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
• n. (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
• n. A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.

side

• n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
• n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
• n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• n. One set of competitors in a game.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
• n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
• n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
• v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
• v. To lean on one side.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
• v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
• adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
• adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

turnabout

• n. The act of turning about so as to face in the opposite direction.
• n. A reversal of a decision or opinion etc; a change of mind or flip-flop.

turnaround

• n. The act of turning to face in the other direction.
• n. A reversal of policy.
• n. The time required to carry out a task.
• n. A turnabout.
• n. (music) A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
• n. (music) The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
• n. (US, historical) Synonym of goback.

vacate

• v. To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.
• v. To leave an office or position.
• v. To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
• v. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural…

verso

• n. The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet or a…
• n. (printing) The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an…