retrograde

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
2. sıfat Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
3. sıfat Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
4. sıfat Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
5. sıfat Having a passage of music played backwards.
6. sıfat Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.

   “retrograde ideas, morals, etc.”

7. sıfat Involving a return to or a retracing of a previous course of travel.
8. sıfat Counterproductive to a desired outcome; contradictory, contrary.

   “In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire: / And we beseech you, bend you to remain”

9. sıfat Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
10. sıfat Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.

    “Mercury retrograde”

11. sıfat Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
12. sıfat Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
13. sıfat Of verse: reading the same forwards or backwards; palindromic.
14. zarf In a reverse direction; backwards.
15. isim A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
16. isim The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
17. isim One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
18. isim One who reneges on an agreement, or switches loyalties; a rebel, a renegade.
19. isim The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
20. fiil To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
21. fiil To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
22. fiil To cause (someone or something) to revert to an inferior or less developed state.
23. fiil To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.

    “[…] Monna Brigida, who had retrograded to false hair in Romola's absence, but now drew it off again and declared she would not mind being gray, if her dear child would stay with her.”

24. fiil Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
25. fiil Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
26. fiil To retreat or withdraw from a position.
27. fiil To move backwards; to recede.

    “A dabble in the stocks does not always turn out profitably; cotton is sometimes heavy on our hands, and real estate will sulkily retrograde, when, by the calculation, it ought to have advanced.”

28. fiil Of the telling of an incident, etc.: to move to an earlier time.