The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
A reserve price in an auction.
Wine held back and aged before being sold.
A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
A resist.
Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
To keep back; to retain.
To book in advance; to make a reservation.
To keep in store for future or special use.
The act of going backwards; a reversal.
A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
The opposite of something.
The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
A piece of misfortune; a setback.
The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
To transpose the positions of two things.
To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
To overthrow; to subvert.
To turn something inside out or upside down.
Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
Reversed.
Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.