Word Meanings - REVERSIBLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a reversible manner.

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• REVERSIBLE
  1. Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence. 2. Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics. Reversible lock, a lock
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• IRREVERSIBLE STEERING GEAR
  A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• IRREVERSIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being irreversible.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• IRREVERSIBLE
  1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine. 2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree. This rejection
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.