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Definitions: REVERSING |
REVERSINGAdjective1. Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Reverse |
Date "REVERSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Mechanical Engineering | The action of changing the direction of movement of a machine or machine part. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Reversing Sign Painter (1901) | |
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 | Reading the reversing thermometers after a Nansen cast Used to compute velocity of sound in seawater.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Figure 11. Buchanan mercury piezometer (VORINGEN model) - This piezometer was designed by Henrik Mohn who was inspired by Buchanan's earlier CHALLENGER design. Mohn had this instrument fabricated by Louis Casella and used it to determine depths of observation of Negretti and Zambra reversing thermometers used during the Norwegian VORINGEN expedition in 1877-1878.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Deepsea reversing thermometers. In: "L'Ocean" by J. Thoulet, 1904. Library Call Number GC11.T49 1904.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Plate I. Modern reversing thermometers for use in the deep sea. I: Negretti and Zambra. II: F. C.Jacob. IIIa: V. Chabaud. IV: C. Richter.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Reversing station or switchback on the Bhor Ghat incline of the Great Indian Peninsula railway, near Bombay.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reversing station or switchback on the Bhor Ghat incline of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, near Bombay.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | The procedure itself is simple, but reversing it is difficult, expensive, and often unsuccessful. (references) | |
The latter can be achieved by identifying and arresting or reversing the disease at an early stage. (references) | ||
This stopping and reversing of caries is dependent on early and accurate diagnosis, which remains a developing field. (references) | ||
Business | These included reversing the growing tendency to use disposable equipment by introducing more re-usable equipment - provided it can be sterilized without difficulty, and segregating waste to ensure that a minimum of household waste is mixed with the clinical waste. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Japan | In 1998 the Justice Ministry began reversing an earlier decision to deny asylum to a group of Burmese prodemocracy students. (references) |
Russia | During the year, the Government was more active in preventing or reversing discriminatory actions taken at the local level, by more actively disseminating information to the regions and, when necessary, reprimanding the officials at fault. (references) | |
China | In July Wang Hongxue of Bengbu, Anhui Province issued an open letter demanding that the authorities fulfill their commitment to the International Olympic Committee about improving human rights by reversing the verdict on the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. (references) | |
Economic History | Mauritania | Reversing a trend of election boycotts, 15 opposition parties nominated candidates for more than 3,000 municipal posts and the 81-member National Assembly. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Because this is a Supreme Court decision, options for reversing the decision appear extremely limited, and the company is contemplating withdrawing from the project. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | Mugabe also announced that his government would begin investigating ways of reversing past discriminatory policies in land distribution, education, employment, and wages. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | Persons can gain a reduction in, or suspension of, their sentences after appeal; appeals usually are not successful, however, because of problems such as short appeal times and inadequate legal counsel, which weaken the effectiveness of the law in preventing or reversing arbitrary decisions. (references) |
Burundi | Although the U.N. believed that the Government improved its compliance with the time limits on detention set by the new penal code, the ICRC, the U.N., and a local human rights organization reported that the prison population increased during the year, reversing the trend that began in 2000 when at least 1,000 persons without files were released. (references) | |
Political Economy | MOROCCO | The 1992 Foreign Trade Law committed Morocco to the principles of free trade, reversing the legal presumption of import protection. (references) |
Trade | Zambia | The increase in reserve rates noted above caused interest rates to increase accordingly, which in turn forced the government to lower the reserve rates, reversing its initial decision after only four weeks. (references) |
Worker Rights | Russia | The MVD, the FSB, and the Procuracy seek to cooperate with foreign governments on ways to combat trafficking and law enforcement agencies have participated in foreign funded training programs; however, these agencies were not optimistic about reversing the trend through law enforcement alone. (references) |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have also seen and encouraged a national movement of parents and citizens committed to reversing the very serious and disturbing trends of adolescent drug abuse. |
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| "REVERSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "REVERSING" is used about 330 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.94% | 310 | 16,399 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.55% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.91% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.61% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 330 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "REVERSING": reversing current ♦ reversing dog ♦ reversing drive ♦ reversing engine ♦ reversing gear ♦ reversing gearbox ♦ reversing light ♦ reversing lights ♦ reversing mechanism ♦ reversing thermometer ♦ thrust reversing. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "REVERSING": contrast-reversing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "REVERSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扭转 (reversed, twisted, twisting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | omstyring (alternate route, alternation, alternative route, alternative routing, change-over, re-routing, reversal, reverse, shifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | terugboeking (clawback, claw-back, reversal), omkering van draairichting (reversal, reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suunnanvaihto (reversal, reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | renversement du sens de marche (reversal, reverse), renversement de marche (reversal, reverse, reversing drive, reversing mechanism), renversement (reversal), remboursement (rebate, redemption, refund, reimbursement, repayment), inversion du mouvement (reversal, reverse), inversion de mouvement (reversal, reverse), inversion de marche (reversal, reverse), contre-passement (reversal), contre-passation (reversal), changement de sens (reversal, reverse, reversing drive, reversing mechanism), changement de marche (reversal, reverse, reversing drive, reversing mechanism), changement de la marche (reversal, reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Umsteuerung (rerouting), umkehrend (inversive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντιστροφή της φοράς κίνησης (reversal, reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inversione di marcia (reversal, reverse), inversione (inversion, reversal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 破毀 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はき (ambition, annulment, aspiration, breaking, revocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 반전 (reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eversingray inversão do movimento (reversal, reverse), inversão de marcha (reversal, reverse), inversão (inversion, mete, reversal). (various references) фонарь заднего хода (reversing light). (various references) zadnji (after, back, hidden, hinder, last, latest, rear, rearward, ulterior), preusmeren. (various references) inversión de la marcha (reversal, reverse). (various references) omkastning (change, inversion, reversal, transposition, turnover), backning (backing). (various references) ters çevirme (inversion, overturn, turning inside out), geri dönebilen, geri (aback, back, backward, backwards, behind, hind, posterior, re-, rear, rearward, rest, retro-, reverse, slow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"REVERSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eversing, reevesiana, rehersyng, reversi, reversings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REVERSING" (pronounced river"sing or rēver"sing) |
| 5 | -v er" s i ng | conversing, traversing. |
| 4 | -er" s i ng | coercing, cursing, disbursing, dispersing, nursing, rehearsing, reimbursing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
| 5 | -v er" s i ng | conversing, traversing. |
| 4 | -er" s i ng | coercing, cursing, disbursing, dispersing, nursing, rehearsing, reimbursing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reserving. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-r-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: grievers, resigner, revering, severing, verniers. | |
-2 letters: enviers, greisen, griever, grieves, inverse, nervier, reeving, regiven, regives, reivers, rerisen, reviser, rievers, ringers, serving, veering, veiners, venires, vergers, vernier, versine, versing. | |
-3 letters: envier, envies, erring, genies, genres, givens, givers, greens, grieve, nereis, nerves, nieves, regive, reigns, reiver, reives, renigs, rerigs, rerise, resign, revers, revise, riever, ringer. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-r-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: preserving. | |
+2 letters: persevering, reobserving, reservicing, resilvering, resurveying. | |
+3 letters: overdressing, overnighters, overstrewing. | |
+4 letters: introgressive, overasserting, overengineers, overmastering, overorganizes, overservicing, overspreading, overstressing, perseverating, perseveringly, rediscovering, reinvigorates, semievergreen, transgressive, unprogressive. | |
+5 letters: cryopreserving, interrogatives, nonprogressive, overbreathings, overexercising, overgenerosity, overharvesting, overimpressing, overpersuading, overprocessing, overresponding, overstretching, regressiveness, tergiversating, tergiversation, verbigerations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 56 45 52 53 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ...- . .-. ... .. -. --. |
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