What's the difference between obverse and reverse?

Obverse


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
  • (a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
  • (a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a brief survey of applications of video in psychiatry, the author describes the original methodology elaborated by the French-speaking section of the AMDP under the direction of the Liège team: semi-structured interview, combination of a "clinical" analysis of the reasons for a poor interrater-reliability (through one or several "observers" of the discussions which follow a projection) and of a multivariate statistical analysis adapted to single cases (through a modification of the obverse factor analysis or Q-technique), "consensus" item scores and final "reference" rating of a patient.
  • (2) Testable inferences from this hypothesis are proposed, including the suggestion that clinically and neurophysiologically, schizophrenia and psychosomatic disorders are the obverse of one another.
  • (3) The enzyme is very thermostable; about 90% of activity remains after being heated at 70 degrees C for 10 min, and no effect of Ca-2's obversed.
  • (4) The only listing for a piece of paper reads: “1-white piece of paper with BREEZO & tel#329-4789 and unreadable printing on the obverse side.” When contacted by the Guardian, Boyd’s cousin Joe Kelly recalled the slip of paper with the FedEx stamp.
  • (5) We sought to verify whether the obverse was true, i.e.
  • (6) This was the obverse of the expected results if ATP4- were to be the sole form of ATP to effect channel closure.
  • (7) Because it is possible to argue that energetic dirt-digging is the obverse side of the uncovering of genuine scandals."
  • (8) Middle-class Swedes have more money and more choice than they used to have, yet the obverse of their greater choice is that others in Sweden have less in the way of life chances than before.
  • (9) Identification of participating genes and clarification of their mechanisms of action will help to elucidate the universal cellular decline of biological aging and an important obverse manifestation, the rare escape of cells from senescence leading to immortalization and oncogenesis.
  • (10) The obverse of these we called the hyporeactive immunologically deficient disorders resulting from defects of the cell or serum components of the immunological reactions, of which many examples have also been found.
  • (11) Where there was disagreement, combination of postiive inhalation test and a negative RAST was much more frequent (33.6%) than in the obverse (3%).
  • (12) Twenty-four male and female deaf and hearing adolescents learned lists of paired associates that were either high visual and low auditory imagery words or the obverse.
  • (13) The results are consistent with release rate of the drug from microspheres (obversely, rate of drug delivery to the tumour), being a determinant of potency in these systems.
  • (14) His Calvinist imagination, quick to conjure doom, and possibly the looming shadow of debt that would end in his expulsion from the paradise garden at Concord, provoked Hawthorne to create something very like its obverse: namely a garden of death.
  • (15) Thus these judgments are not equivalent obverse aspects of a unitary judgmental process.
  • (16) Reasons given for opposing blind review included the following: blinding not possible, identification will not influence judgment, and its obverse, identification assists judgment.
  • (17) A recent alternative asks the obverse; given a mass of tissue that may be developed and maintained at a particular cost, what predictions do physical principles permit about its placement.
  • (18) The synthesis of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells has been examined during conjugation, in preconjugal conditions, and in control cultures that were not exposed to obverse diffusible sex factors.
  • (19) If you are continually rewarded for bad behaviour you will probably continue to do it but if the obverse is true you might consider changing behaviour.

Reverse


Definition:

  • (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
  • (a.) Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
  • (a.) Reversed; as, a reverse shell.
  • (a.) That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.
  • (a.) That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite.
  • (a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse.
  • (a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse.
  • (a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
  • (a.) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
  • (a.) To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.
  • (a.) To cause to return; to recall.
  • (a.) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
  • (a.) To turn upside down; to invert.
  • (a.) Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.
  • (a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.
  • (v. i.) To return; to revert.
  • (v. i.) To become or be reversed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (2) Application of 40 microM NiCl2 reversibly blocked It while leaving Is intact, whereas 20 microM CdCl2 reversibly blocked Is, but not It.
  • (3) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
  • (4) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (5) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
  • (6) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
  • (7) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (8) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (9) Head-injured patients had a low thyroxine (T4), low triiodothyronine (T3), and high reverse T3.
  • (10) Dilutional studies comparing the mechanism of inhibition of monoamine oxidase produced by Gerovital H3 and by ipronizid demonstrated that Gerovital H3 was a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase.
  • (11) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
  • (12) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (13) What reforms there were could also be reversed, she warned.
  • (14) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
  • (15) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
  • (16) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
  • (17) These antagonists reverse NMDA-mediated long term influence in these brain areas.
  • (18) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
  • (19) We have recently described a nonnucleoside compound that specifically inhibits the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent of AIDS.
  • (20) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.