"reversal" meaning in English

See reversal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)səl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-reversal.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səl Etymology: From French réversal or Medieval Latin reversālis. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|réversal}} French réversal, {{bor|en|ML.|reversālis}} Medieval Latin reversālis Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} reversal (not comparable)
  1. Intended to reverse; implying reversal. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-reversal-en-adj--M~CIChe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)səl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-reversal.wav [Southern-England] Forms: reversals [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səl Etymology: From Middle English reversall; equivalent to reverse + -al. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|reversall}} Middle English reversall, {{suffix|en|reverse|al}} reverse + -al Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} reversal (countable and uncountable, plural reversals)
  1. The state of being reversed. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-reversal-en-noun-t89HTS3U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 66 8 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 61 11 28
  2. An instance of reversing. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (an instance of reversing): ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), обръщане (obrǎštane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 倒轉 (Chinese Cantonese), 倒转 (dou³ zyun³) (Chinese Cantonese), 倒轉 (Chinese Mandarin), 倒转 (dàozhuǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), renversement [masculine] (French), inversion [feminine] (French), αναστροφή (anastrofí) [feminine] (Greek), -csere (Hungarian), megfordítás (Hungarian), megfordulás (Hungarian), -forduló (Hungarian), inversión [feminine] (Spanish), retorno [masculine] (Spanish), revocación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-reversal-en-noun-iGg7wYWZ Disambiguation of 'an instance of reversing': 3 95 1
  3. A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-reversal-en-noun-qSS-0NdQ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: reversion

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.