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How to pronounce “reverse”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of reverse with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Taiwan's Global Contributionswe call reverse procurement.
Definition summary: Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction. [from 14th c.]

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How to pronounce reverse

Taiwan's Global Contributions

we call reverse procurement.

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Meaning

[Adjective]
Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction. [from 14th c.]
Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction. [from 19th c.]
(rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
(botany) Reversed.
(genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
[Adverb]
(now rare) In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down. [from 16thc. (from the 14thc. in Middle English)]
[Noun]
The opposite of something. [from 14th c.]
The act of going backwards; a reversal. [from 15th c.]
A piece of misfortune; a setback. [from 16th c.]
(numismatics) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse. [from 17th c.]
The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side. [from 18th c.]
The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.) [from 19th c.]
A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
(surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
(graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
[Verb]
(transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
(transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
(transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
(transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
(obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
(obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
(obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
(law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
(ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
(chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
(rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
(rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
(aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
To overthrow; to subvert.
(computing) Ellipsis of reverse-engineer.

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How to pronounce “reverse”

Pronunciation guide for reverse

How to pronounce reverse

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we call reverse procurement.

We can reverse heart disease, diabetes.

Not even-- maybe even more important than reverse creaming.

Reverse mentoring could be an antidote to that tunnel vision.

think it was possible to reverse transcribe.

whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease

Energizing reverse migration by encouraging even more Black people

the reverse Stitch that you have for

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