Crossword clues for reversal
reversal
- Change for the worse, e.g.
- Turnabout
- About-face
- Minister and earls surprisingly backing movement
- Change in direction
- Several transferred after QPR's latest defeat
- Potential result of a 56-
- Backing show, risk being invested on and off
- Complete change of fortune
- Appeal result, at times
- Unfavorable change of fortune
- Change of fortune
- Change for the worse
- Setback
- Potential result of a 56-Across
- Act of reversing the order or place of
- Turning in the opposite direction
- A judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
- A decision to reverse an earlier decision
- Turning in an opposite direction or position
- Something that is thwarting or frustrating
- A change from one state to the opposite state
- An unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes
- Undoing
- Change of mind
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reversal \Re*ver"sal\, a. [See Reverse.]
Intended to reverse; implying reversal. [Obs.]
--Bp. Burnet.
Reversal \Re*ver"sal\, n. [From Reverse.]
The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.
--Blackstone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Intended to reverse; implying reversal. n. 1 The state of being reversed. 2 An instance of reverse. 3 A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
WordNet
n. a change from one state to the opposite state; "there was a reversal of autonomic function"
an unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating [syn: reverse, setback, blow, black eye]
turning in an opposite direction or position; "the reversal of the image in the lens" [syn: turn around]
a decision to reverse an earlier decision [syn: change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround]
a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside [ant: affirmation]
turning in the opposite direction [syn: reversion, reverse, turnabout, turnaround]
the act of reversing the order or place of [syn: transposition]
a reversal in attitude or principle or point of view; "an about-face on foreign policy" [syn: about-face, volte-face, policy change]
Wikipedia
Reversal may refer to:
- In law, reversal refers to the setting aside of a decision of a lower court by a higher court
- In drama, "reversal" refers to Aristotle's concept of Peripeteia
- Reversal film, a type of photographic film also known as slide or transparency film
- The Reversal, a novel by Michael Connelly
- Reversal of polarity
- In grappling, a reversal occurs when the defensive contender achieves an offensive position
- Reversal (film), a movie about wrestling
- Reversal, an options-trading strategy, see Options arbitrage#Reversal
Reversal is a 2001 movie about a high school wrestler, directed by Jimi Petulla. The movie, starring Danny Mousetis, chronicles the struggle of Leo Leone as he strives for the Pennsylvania state title and his dad's affection. Coached by his father, Edward Leone (played by Jimi Petulla), he is constantly pushed towards this goal. He is forced to decide between the approval of his father or his own wishes as he feels the strain from years of training and making weight. The movie never made it to the mainstream public, however received vocal support from many leaders in the wrestling community such as Cael Sanderson and Kurt Angle.
The soundtrack was composed by Jeff Danna. His first credits were as a contributing composer for Fox's popular series Beverly Hills 90210. One of his more recent and noteworthy scores were for The Boondock Saints (Parts I & II). In 2001, other than Reversal, Danna composed three more films; O, The Grey Zone and Green Dragon. His music has also been heard on the hit syndicated series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and in the telefilm "Baby," with Farrah Fawcett.
Usage examples of "reversal".
A wealthy criminal might obtain, not only the reversal of the sentence by which he was justly condemned, but might likewise inflict whatever punishment he pleased on the accuser, the witnesses, and the judge.
It felt odd for him to be taking orders from Breck, but the reversal of roles was necessary.
Sir John Sharington, whose crimes and malversations had appeared so egregious at the condemnation of Lord Seymour, obtained from parliament a reversal of his attainder.
The impersonal, reportorial quality of the third-person objective point of view works well to suggest ironies of situations and speech, those understated subtleties of discovery and reversal that make for psychological suspense.
Hobgood, Sheff had, and this reversal of the process, by a ghost, was something that really scared him.
And then, for a brief period of thirty or forty thousand years, a reversal of the mass exchange as the companion star in turn burned up its hydrogen and bloated to a blue supergiant, while the relentless hole devoured its substance.
In an execrable left-slanting hand, he announced, employing a sardonic tone that had not been present in his first letters from Lisbon, that the old tubafter a series of delays, reversals, mechanical failures, and governmental tergiversations, had finally been cleared yet againfor departure, on the second of December.
At another level, the irony is embodied in the dramatic reversal of fortunes undergone by Mathieu and Brunet by the time the tetralogy breaks off.
Edwina had had no effect whatsoever, Emma was a bit taken aback by this unanticipated reversal.
Again, we have the response undergoing an actual reversal when the tissue is stale.
Throughout the Middle Ages the inhabitants of Khurasan were taught painful lessons in sudden reversals of fortune.
Therefore, the Longline continued to emit its own neutrino bursts as it left the neutron star and when it made its reversal some three hundred thousand kilometers away.
This is of all courts the safest and rightest to abide by, but it must not be forgotten that the common sense of one generation is not that of the next, and that the modification with which common sense descends cannot be effected, however gently we may try to do so, without some disturbance of the pre-existing common sense, and some reversal of its decrees.
Based on the seroepidemiology we found just that, but noticed a paradoxical reversal in the wealthier classes until we reached a glaring absence in businessmen above a certain socio-economic level.
He would come presently to the greatest-to the reversal of the final Jewish word of power, to the reversed Tetragrammaton itself.