Used in a Sentence

reversing

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for reversing.

Editorial note

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An act of reversal.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of reversing gathered in one view.

noun

An act of reversal.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reversing.

noun

An act of reversal.

Example sentences

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Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect.

2

It's not, jameshart just learned about something which has been an issue in reversing unicode text since 1991.

3

Those are not really side-effects of Naloxone, they are side-effects of reversing the effect of opiates.

4

It's really cool how they can arbitrarily turn the prop on and off like an electric aircraft, even reversing its direction.

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Yes, and years later BlackBerry is still around, with a CEO that's almost finished reversing the damage the previous ones caused.

6

Deliberately inverting motivations or reversing cause and effect is a common form of humor.

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Want to whitelist or block, just add a DNS entry after reversing the IP.

8

Real infinite physics like draing a water dam and flooding mines is CPU intensive (there are such mods too) and changes the gameplay (reversing a flood means pumping out the water).

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Considering that what we're shooting for on HN is an internet version of reversing the arrow of entropy, i.e.

10

And how about reversing some of the problems we introduced earlier while we are at it?

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We should be quite wary of reversing metaphors in this fashion.

12

He's not reversing a conditional probability, but rather asking a question about the unconditional probability (the base rate), so the 60/40 conditional information is not relevant.

Quote examples

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People built things on top of Microcorruption, too -- there are actual professional-grade reversing tools which have a command-line "microcorruption quirks mode" to better emulate the behavior of the game's emulator.

2

I did that exact thing a few years ago (reversing the X) and muscle memory still makes me start it the "old way" before doing the reversal #mildlyinteresting And yes, I look at peoples shoes for this too...

3

> What is remarkable, however, is how this rather iffy result has been seized upon by some liberals as a rationale for making large minimum wage increases a core component of the liberal agenda–for arguing that living wages “can play an important role in reversing the 25-year decline in wages experienced by most working people in America” (as this book’s back cover has it).

Proper noun examples

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Reversing up was weird, looking over the 'wrong' shoulder.

2

Reversing idiocy doesn't get you accuracy.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use reversing in a sentence?

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect.

What does reversing mean?

An act of reversal.

What part of speech is reversing?

reversing is commonly used as noun.