reverse
/ɹɪˈvɝs/ adjective B2- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction. · We ate the meal in reverse order, starting with dessert and ending with the starter.· The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction. · He selected reverse gear.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- Reversed. · a reverse shell
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
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“Sire, I am sorry to tell your majesty a cruel fact; but the feeling in Dauphiné is quite the reverse of that in Provence or Languedoc.
“The paper is thin, and the reverse will give the message.
Incidentally, I may tell you that we are doing the reverse of what you very justly blame, and that we are endeavouring to prevent anything like public exposure of private matters which must necessarily follow when once the case is fairly in the hands of the official police.
I have great hopes of finding him quite the reverse.
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