reverser
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reverser (plural reversers)
- Something which reverses a particular action or condition.
- a polarity reverser
- 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
- The down grade would give her a start, and then, if Mitchell got his reverser over smartly, he might catch her on the right angle, and she would come back. Mitchell reversed, and moved forward, but to the horror of the fireman, he didn't stop!
- (aviation) A thrust reverser.
- (Scots law) A mortgager of land.
- (slang, computing) A reverse-engineer.
- 2011, Eldad Eilam, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering:
- Antidebugger techniques are particularly effective when combined with code encryption because encrypting the program forces reversers to run it inside a debugger in order to allow the program to decrypt itself.
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reverser
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Conjugation of reverser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | reverser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reversant /ʁə.vɛʁ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | reversé /ʁə.vɛʁ.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reverse /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
reverses /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
reverse /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
reversons /ʁə.vɛʁ.sɔ̃/ |
reversez /ʁə.vɛʁ.se/ |
reversent /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
| imperfect | reversais /ʁə.vɛʁ.sɛ/ |
reversais /ʁə.vɛʁ.sɛ/ |
reversait /ʁə.vɛʁ.sɛ/ |
reversions /ʁə.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
reversiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.sje/ |
reversaient /ʁə.vɛʁ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reversai /ʁə.vɛʁ.se/ |
reversas /ʁə.vɛʁ.sa/ |
reversa /ʁə.vɛʁ.sa/ |
reversâmes /ʁə.vɛʁ.sam/ |
reversâtes /ʁə.vɛʁ.sat/ |
reversèrent /ʁə.vɛʁ.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | reverserai /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
reverseras /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
reversera /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
reverserons /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
reverserez /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
reverseront /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reverserais /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
reverserais /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
reverserait /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
reverserions /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reverseriez /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁje/ |
reverseraient /ʁə.vɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reverse /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
reverses /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
reverse /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
reversions /ʁə.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
reversiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.sje/ |
reversent /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
| imperfect2 | reversasse /ʁə.vɛʁ.sas/ |
reversasses /ʁə.vɛʁ.sas/ |
reversât /ʁə.vɛʁ.sa/ |
reversassions /ʁə.vɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
reversassiez /ʁə.vɛʁ.sa.sje/ |
reversassent /ʁə.vɛʁ.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | reverse /ʁə.vɛʁs/ |
— | reversons /ʁə.vɛʁ.sɔ̃/ |
reversez /ʁə.vɛʁ.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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- “reverser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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reverser
- to invert (turn upside down)
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This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of reverser (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | reverser | avoir reversé | |||||
| gerund | en reversant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | reversant | ||||||
| past participle | reversé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | revers | reverses | reverse | reversons | reversez | reversent |
| imperfect | reversoie, reverseie, reversoe, reverseve | reversoies, reverseies, reversoes, reverseves | reversoit, reverseit, reversot, reverseve | reversiiens, reversiens | reversiiez, reversiez | reversoient, reverseient, reversoent, reversevent | |
| preterite | reversai | reversas | reversa | reversames | reversastes | reverserent | |
| future | reverserai | reverseras | reversera | reverserons | reverseroiz, reversereiz, reverserez | reverseront | |
| conditional | reverseroie, reversereie | reverseroies, reversereies | reverseroit, reversereit | reverseriiens, reverseriens | reverseriiez, reverseriez | reverseroient, reversereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | revers | revers | reverst | reversons | reversez | reversent |
| imperfect | reversasse | reversasses | reversast | reversissons, reversissiens | reversissoiz, reversissez, reversissiez | reversassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | reverse | — | reversons | reversez | — | ||
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reverser