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Definition: Revers |
ReversNoun1. A lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Revers \Re*vers"\, nounsing plural [French expression See Reverse, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: ReversSynonym: revere (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Revers |
| Non-English Usage: "Revers" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (back, check, cuff, facing, lapel, lappet, reverse, setback, turn up), German (declaration, lapel, revere, revers, reverse), Romanian (reverse, tail), Swedish (iou, IOU (=I owe you), note, note = promissory note, promissory, promissory note). |
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| "Revers" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Revers" is used about 18 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 50% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 38.89% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 11.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "revers": revers gear. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
revers lookup | 25 | look phone revers up | 4 |
revers | 24 | book phone revers | 4 |
revers look up | 11 | lookup number phone revers | 4 |
blade revers sword | 10 | cheryl revers | 3 |
phone revers | 9 | look number phone revers up | 3 |
lookup phone revers | 8 | number phone revers search | 3 |
directory revers | 7 | number revers | 2 |
directory phone revers | 6 | email lookup revers | 2 |
number phone revers | 5 | number phone revers serches | 2 |
search revers | 5 | lookup number revers | 2 |
numbers phone revers | 5 | look number revers up | 2 |
revers phone search | 4 | ||
look number revers up | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "revers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ревер, капак (bonnet, cap, cover, hood, lid, shutter, top). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), obrátit na ruby, obrácený (counter, inverse, reverse, turned over, upside down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لبه برگشته , برگردان (Lapel, Refrain, Turnover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | marche arrière (revers gear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | revers (declaration, lapel, revere, reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ÏεβÎÏ (lapel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eversray solapa (flap, lap, lapel). (various references) вилога (lapel), лацкан (lapel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "revers": reversal, reversals, reverse, reversed, reversely, reverser, reversers, reverses, reversibilities, reversibility, reversible, reversibles, reversibly, reversing, reversion, reversional, reversionary, reversioner, reversioners, reversions, reverso, reversos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "revers": forevers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "revers": irreversibilities, irreversibility, irreversible, irreversibly, nonreversible. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: server, verser. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: serer, serve, sever, veers, verse. | |
-2 letters: errs, ever, eves, rees, revs, seer, sere, veer, vees. | |
-3 letters: ere, err, ers, eve, ree, res, rev, see, ser, vee. | |
-4 letters: er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: reavers, reivers, reserve, reverbs, reveres, reverse, reverso, reverts, reviser, rievers, servers, severer, swerver, vergers, versers. | |
+2 letters: breviers, coverers, derivers, deserver, evertors, forevers, grievers, hoverers, nervures, observer, overseer, oversure, perverse, perverts, preavers, preserve, ravelers, raveners, recovers, recurves, redrives, removers, reproves, reserved, reserver, reserves, resilver, resolver, restrive, restrove, resurvey, revelers, reverers, reveries, reversal, reversed, reverser, reverses, reversos, revilers, revisers, revivers, revokers, riveters, rivieres, servicer, shiverer, silverer, slaverer, sliverer, swervers, traverse, verdures, verniers, waverers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 65 72 73 |
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