Reversed

Examples

• Later, the bowl became more pointed, the drop was replaced by a tongue, and the handle, after 1760, instead of slightly curving to the front at the end, reversed the position. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Love and hatred might have been unattended with any such desires, or their particular connexion might have been entirely reversed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• To take off copies lay dry sheets of paper on the reversed impression, press gently, and remove quickly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He had not well done speaking, when the windlass was reversed and worked again. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• When the current was reversed the friction was greatly increased over what it was when no current was passing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The armature circuit had a switch in it which permitted the locomotive to be reversed by reversing the direction of current flow through the armature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But it _is_ a negative, so called because everything in it is reversed--not only from left to right, but in the details of the image. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If you had just reversed the nod and the bow, it would have been right, said Amy reprovingly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• When, however, rain falls on a wooded slope, the action is reversed; a small portion runs off, while the greater portion sinks into the soft earth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If the direction is reversed, the polarity will also be reversed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The photograph is true as far as position, form, and expression are concerned, but the actual intensities are just reversed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They rest on one side--in the greater number of species on the left, but in some on the right side; and occasionally reversed adult specimens occur. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This is true, except that the terms should be reversed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The object to be reproduced was laid in contact with the prepared paper, and exposed to the light until a copy was produced which was a negative, having the lights and shadows reversed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It addressed me as if our places were reversed, as if all the good deeds had been mine and all the feelings they had awakened his. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If the direction of flow of current be reversed, by reversing the battery, the electromagnetic polarity also reverses and the end of the permanent magnet swings over to the other side. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Instantly with the shock of impact I reversed my engine, but my prow was wedged in the hole it had made in the battleship's stern. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Good-by, Solomon, he added, trying to wield his stick again, but failing now that he had reversed the handle. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then a second twisting followed, the direction being again reversed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One was used in connection with the propelling lever, which was provided with a pawl to fit into the teeth of the reversed ratchet wheel on its forward movement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then the motion of the bar was reversed, which drew the thread back through the cloth in the form of loops, and through the loops first formed, thus producing a chain stitch. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If the magnet is passed through the helix, the current is reversed as soon as the magnet passes the middle point. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The central cylindrical space in the receiver is now filled with water, and the operation is reversed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• May my arms be reversed, and my name dishonoured, said Brian de Bois-Guilbert, if thou shalt have reason to complain of me! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Remove the original carefully, and a reversed impression will be observed on the pad. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Both these having violated nature, their natural likings and antipathies are reversed; they grow altogether morbid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When the operation is reversed, and only the _darks_ are etched in _intaglio_, to be filled with ink, as in copper-plate engraving, it is called photo-gravure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If the current could be repeatedly reversed just as the helix completed its half turn, the motion could be prolonged; periodic current reversal would produce continuous rotation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But all this is reversed in the case of the unjust man. Plato. The Republic.
• For making duplicates it was obviously necessary to first secure a mold carrying the record in negative or reversed form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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