I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
back/reverse a car (= make it move backwards )
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Suzy backed the car into the driveway.
reverse a decision (= change a decision )
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They want him to reverse his decision to quit.
reverse a decline (= make sth start to improve again )
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The main aim is to reverse the decline of the world’s environment.
reverse a policy (= stop a policy and change it )
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The new government set about reversing previous policies.
reverse a trend (= make something start to change back )
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He succeeded in reversing the downward trend of the railway’s fortunes.
reverse discrimination
reverse engineering
reverse gear (= for driving backwards )
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He put the truck into reverse gear.
reverse gear
reverse order
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They announced the results in reverse order, starting with the last.
reverse snobbery
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There's a lot of reverse snobbery about opera.
reversing light
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
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For their part, the Communists completely reversed their line, earning the permanent hostility of many of their former allies.
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Gold completely reversed her position on a hormonal link.
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Thus by completely reversing the cycle, mating will occur around midday.
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In a Committee debate, they have completely reversed their previous position.
■ NOUN
appeal
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The Court of Appeal reversed this decision, but it was held that instructions were relevant in deciding fitness for purpose.
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If the appeals courts reverse the case, the whole procedure begins all over again.
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The Court of Appeal reversed the judge's decision to refuse the injunctions sought.
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Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed .
car
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Tony reversed his car and turned to take another look at the theatre - there was nothing there.
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A female driver had reversed into his car in the market place despite his warning cry.
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I reversed the car into a side turn and waited.
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She reversed the car out and swung it round to give Billy room to put his in its place.
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As I reversed the car , I caught sight of her blithely telling all and sundry about the row.
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By the time she had got across the field and back, Miranda had reversed the car on to the road.
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He reversed his car and prepared to drive back down the road.
case
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If the appeals courts reverse the case , the whole procedure begins all over again.
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Again, the same Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the case .
change
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Then we may have some hope of preventing, retarding or reversing the changes .
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The leaders of Park Forest are trying to reverse the forces of change that ruptured their community.
charge
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This momentarily reverses the positive charge on the outside.
court
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The Court of Appeal reversed this decision, but it was held that instructions were relevant in deciding fitness for purpose.
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If the appeals courts reverse the case, the whole procedure begins all over again.
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The Court of Appeal reversed the judge's decision to refuse the injunctions sought.
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Eighteen months later an appellate court reversed the convictions and criticized the conduct of the trial judge and the prosecution.
decision
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Four days later the faculty reversed that decision , and then reversed it once again.
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These decisions can only be reversed with great difficulty.
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That decision was reversed on the spot.
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On the prosecutor's appeal to the Divisional Court this decision was in turn reversed .
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One week later, the decision was reversed .
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The decision was reversed on appeal on the facts.
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The decision was subsequently reversed on appeal to the High Court.
decline
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It proposes tough penalties for industries which cause water pollution to help reverse the decline .
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Expensive state subsidies cushioned but could not reverse Yucatan's long decline .
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It is hoped that the multi-million pound facelift will reverse decades of decline for the shopping area in Liverpool city centre.
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A department devoted to organizing new unions had already been set up to reverse the long decline in membership.
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However, both the lack of growth and the failure to reverse the decline in work opportunities also carry serious political implications.
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The reforms are designed to reverse the drastic decline in the Party's support.
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Last year's return to democracy has scarcely begun to reverse the country's decline .
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How man is trying to reverse the decline .
direction
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The second assumption is that the stream can not move backwards on itself, that is, reverse its direction or join itself.
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Once there, the plane would reverse direction and return to Adana along the same route.
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At first she walked with confidence, reversing her earlier directions , but after a while she began to get confused.
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Indeed it reverses the direction , as we shall see.
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During the freewheeling interval the motional voltage becomes negative and the freewheeling winding current may be forced to reverse direction .
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At the Gynn, the ravine was bridged and an elaborate tramway layout constructed, facilitating cars reversing in both directions .
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Another method reverses the direction of flow, with the water moving upwards through coarse and then fine material.
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Many lace patterns are vertically symmetrical so there seems little point in trying to reverse the direction anyway.
gain
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International anger and domestic turmoil threaten to reverse fragile gains made during Fujimori's 20 months in government.
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Such subtle shifting could be enough to reverse the Republican congressional gains of the 1990s.
government
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Newly formed governments seek deliberately to reverse their predecessors' communications policies.
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Successive Conservative governments implemented policies which reversed the slight trend for income redistribution to poorer groups.
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Why has there been a downturn in river water quality under the Government which has reversed the trend since the mid-1950s?
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Unemployment rose to a million and inflation got worse, so the government had to reverse many of its policies.
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The new government set about reversing previous policies, not least of which was agrarian reform.
order
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The Prince and Princess have each, in their own way, reversed the order of play.
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Methodists accepted this agenda, though they tended to reverse the order of priorities for their trek across the country.
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Some individuals reverse the order of difficulty found in the group as a whole.
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If we reverse the order we get a story of revenge, the children getting their own back.
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For selective pressures for linguistic ability could easily reverse in ontogeny the order I maintain would be needed in phylogeny.
pattern
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I knitted two plain white rows between each row of faces and reversed the pattern each time it changed.
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The new policy would seek to reverse the pattern of out-migration while strengthening the economic base of inner-city areas.
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The temperature pattern also reverses when the pattern of atmospheric pressure of the southern oscillation reverses.
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More valuable is James Woodhouse who reversed the pattern of Duck's career.
policy
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But then in 1997 they reversed the policy and, not surprisingly, they had a collapse.
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Rising public outrage eventually forced Intel to reverse its policy and offer replacement chips to anyone who wanted one.
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It has reversed some policies , such as the hated Employment Contracts Act and the hasty privatisation of the accident compensation scheme.
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Most important, they announced that they would reverse the disastrous 1982 policy of nationalizing banks.
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Unemployment rose to a million and inflation got worse, so the government had to reverse many of its policies .
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The plans to reverse decades of governmental policy without benefit of public hearings and substantive dialogue have produced little.
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The new government set about reversing previous policies , not least of which was agrarian reform.
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The decision to release the documents reverses a Red Cross policy of secrecy.
position
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This would immediately reverse the relative positions of majority and minority in Northern Ireland.
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Gold completely reversed her position on a hormonal link.
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Yet in the case of negotiated safety, these same prevention groups reverse position .
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Anomie theorists and their subcultural followers reversed the classical position on these matters, and in doing so encountered serious problems.
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On April 29, however, Taylor reversed his position .
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The Transfer Regulations reverse the position with respect to employees.
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Now reverse the position by rotating the hands but keeping them touching.
priority
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Here too there are reasons for reversing the priority .
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Methodists accepted this agenda, though they tended to reverse the order of priorities for their trek across the country.
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Formalist theory reversed the priority of content over form and devoted its attention exclusively to form.
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Where previous models had been brain models first and useful devices second, Hopfield reversed the priorities .
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George Bush has reversed these priorities .
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But he said from day to day I should reverse the priorities .
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Derrida reverses this priority by making all apparently logocentric forms of discourse secondary and indeed illusory.
process
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Local geologists hope the latest earthquake may help to reverse the process .
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Only then, after it was too late to reverse the process , did I feel remorse.
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Instead of growing up, I had, as it were, grown down, and thus reversed a natural biological process .
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Television and its congeners have begun to reverse the process that started with the invention of the printing press.
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We can't reverse the process , but we might be able to check it.
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On the plus side, weight loss and regular exercise have been shown to reverse this process .
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After some education they turn these patterns into print, or reverse the process , turning print into acoustic events.
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By keeping a close and constant watch on himself, Quinn was gradually able to reverse the process .
role
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Of course, you can reverse the roles , make a cross both ways, and compare the results.
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In their conversations he chose to reverse their roles .
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But the union of youth and age had reversed her role .
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As a practical matter, the more we reverse roles , the better the parenting balance.
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In the next portrait I introduce a man and a woman who achieved a work-family balance for both by reversing traditional roles .
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This would entail making approaches, reversing the role she had assumed throughout the years with Claire.
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They eventually succeeded in reversing the roles of the pagan religions and their own by taking the offensive.
situation
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Mere words could do little in the short term to reverse the chaotic situation .
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It will take tremendous political will, courage and humanity to reverse this situation .
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But later on, the shortage of manpower reversed the situation .
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Yet both organizations allowed the experiment to go forward, and in each case it reversed a deteriorating situation .
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Those doubts continued as Pittsburgh came out and reversed the situation in the second half.
trend
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Mr Stafford Smith is doing his best to reverse the growing trend towards execution and so far he has been very successful.
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The action reversed a trend in which the two countries appeared to be edging ever so slightly toward increased cooperation.
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Parts and accessories sales declined sharply, reversing an earlier trend .
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Tyler had been charged with reversing this trend .
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Liberal Democrats will reverse this trend by: Creating safe and secure communities.
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The conference was misleadingly regarded as a success and as reversing the trend in relations.
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Both the president and the Republican Congress want to reverse that trend with broadly similar plans.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As I approached the house a car reversed out of the driveway and sped off down the road.
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Cities are expanding and using up more and more of the desert. Our aim is to reverse this trend and to protect our open spaces.
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Drive down to where I am, then start reversing.
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Half the new police squad cars have the colors reversed.
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He slowly reversed the van into the parking place.
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It's clear that our priorities need to be reversed.
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It may take a century or two to reverse the damage done by pollution.
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Many of the former administration's policies were reversed by the new president.
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The court of appeal reversed the original verdict set the prisoner free.
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The image on the screen was reversed and upside down.
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The longer the economic decline is allowed to go on the more difficult it will be to reverse it.
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You'll have to reverse to let them pass.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By keeping a close and constant watch on himself, Quinn was gradually able to reverse the process.
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It reversed fast, the gearbox whining like a violin, and parked in front of the Mercedes.
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Many of the consequences of our acts can be reversed or nullified by redefinition.
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Most important, they announced that they would reverse the disastrous 1982 policy of nationalizing banks.
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Self-pity tends to block taking action that will be truly effective in reversing the downward spirals of primary and family diseases.
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The Prague linguists' approach explains it in terms of reversing the theme-rheme sequence.
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Tyler had been charged with reversing this trend.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Financial reverses forced Thomas to sell his business.
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The reverse side has two eagles with a dead hare.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But for others, the reverse was true: it was technical drawing which attracted them into engineering.
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But in fact the reverse is true.
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It is the conglomerate process in reverse .
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The parasympathetic nervous system does the reverse , preparing the body for more vegetative activities.
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The process can work in reverse .
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Union commander McDowell reacted to this reverse by renewing his forward pressure.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
direction
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In the reverse direction the wood looked different.
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In funerary rites or in cases of houses subject to the intrusions of snakes, this reverse direction is followed by the priest.
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In the reverse direction the country received its most abundantly grown foodstuffs of today - maize and cassava.
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The system does not necessarily include a balance lift that is to say duplicate tanks working up and down duplicate inclines in reverse direction .
discrimination
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At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination .
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The fact is that both the benefits of affirmative action and the white-male fears of reverse discrimination have been exaggerated.
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Thomas was renowned as a vigorous opponent of affirmative action or reverse discrimination , espousing minority self-help rather than racial quotas.
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She does think it is sometimes reverse discrimination but wonders how else people will move up.
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There are a number of legal formulae by which any suggestion of reverse discrimination is ruled out.
effect
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Damage to a visual area in the brainstem, the superior colliculus, had the reverse effect .
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They have exactly the reverse effect .
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One can only guess at the reverse effect on the police themselves.
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This was supposed to comfort me, but it had the reverse effect .
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Each fresh admission of Wingate's guilt brought with it a reverse effect .
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Contradictions which might seem likely to undermine the system have often the reverse effect .
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Removing input neuron 1 produces difficulties with remembering output pattern A but not B. Removing input neuron 2 produces the reverse effect .
gear
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The machine has no reverse gear .
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Engage forward and reverse gears and shunt backwards and forwards, listening for unusual transmission noises.
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Thus the movement, seen from close by, appears to go into reverse gear .
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After some time, he finally started the engine and crunched into reverse gear .
order
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To take these points in reverse order , the initiation of the student into the rational life should occur in two directions.
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Cosmologists have supposed that the universe might go into reverse and run through with all its physical laws in reverse order .
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In fact we have just suggested the reverse order of development.
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We discuss in reverse order these three ways that languages can have words that share sound and meaning.
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Here in reverse order are the Top Three: 3.
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If the last four rows of Table 1 are taken in reverse order , the required reciprocal is obtained.
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Their voting preferences were, of course, in the reverse order .
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They died in reverse order to that in which they'd been born.
process
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The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.
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The reverse process , therefore, is to consider what we owe to other people.
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Ultimately you are involved in a reverse process of what the historian H underwent while writing the book.
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The reverse process often takes place in the evening, and the mountains become clear and sharp again.
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The reverse process involves the computer recognition of pictures.
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They also allow the reverse processes , antiquarks turning into electrons, and electrons and antielectrons turning into antiquarks and quarks.
punch
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The defender now turns attacker, stepping quickly forward and striking with a reverse punch to his attacker's chest.
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Possibly the most commonly used punch in karate is the reverse punch.
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The reverse punch is also the strongest and hardest punch in karate.
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The reverse punch is most frequently used in a counter-attack.
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The basic lunge punch is dropped in favour of the short swift jab or the very fast reverse punch.
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Add a reverse punch to underline your technique.
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Begin to thrust your punching hip forwards, using the pull-back of your snap punch to power the reverse punch.
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Throw a reverse punch as before and bring the kicking knee forwards without raising the lower leg or turning the hips.
side
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White spots on the reverse side of a tiger's ears.
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And in the reverse side of the Moon?
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On the reverse sides of the sheets Dante s text strikes through.
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It was on the reverse side of a police interview with Reza Eslaminia.
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The reverse side of the appeal has a useful bibliography.
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But the reverse side has a reverse side, too.
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If Photoflo creeps on to the reverse side of the grid, it may leave drying artefacts.
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This certificate normally carries on the reverse side a form of renunciation.
situation
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There were so many takes and retakes for angles that the reverse situation was occurring for Nicholson, the actor.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His advice had the reverse effect to that intended.
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In some families the father goes out to work and the mother stays at home. In others, the reverse situation is true.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bridge of four diodes, connected in reverse parallel with the switching transistors, provides the path for freewheeling currents.
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The diode D1 is reverse biased during this period and plays no part in the action.
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The effect achieves what we players call reverse swing.
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The fact is that both the benefits of affirmative action and the white-male fears of reverse discrimination have been exaggerated.
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Their voting preferences were, of course, in the reverse order.
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To remove just about everything, and run it to waste, the ultimate is a reverse osmosis unit at around £250.