to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
To turn something inside out or upside down.
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.
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.
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.