Invert
[ɪn'vɜːt] or ['ɪnvɝt]
Definition
(verb.) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; 'when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb'.
(verb.) make an inversion (in a musical composition); 'here the theme is inverted'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
(v. t.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
(v. t.) To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
(v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
(v. i.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
(a.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
(n.) An inverted arch.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Turn upside down.[2]. Reverse, place in contrary order.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Upset, reverse, overturn, subvert,[See OVERTHROW]
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Definition
v.t. to turn in or about: to turn upside down: to reverse: to change the customary order or position.—n. (archit.) an inverted arch or vault as the floor of a sewer &c.—adj. Inver′ted turned upside down: reversed: (geol.) denoting strata that appear to have been reversed or folded back by upheaval.—adv. Inver′tedly in an inverted or contrary manner.—Inverted arch an arch with its curve turned downwards as in a sewer.
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Examples
- But to say that we must make tools first, and then begin, is to invert the process of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He laid down the characteristics of the class of invert ebrates to which octopus and sepia belong. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Fill a medium-sized bottle with water, cover it with a glass plate, invert the bottle in the trough, and then remove the glass plate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I have not done that because this rational procedure inverts the natural order of things and develops all kinds of theoretical tangles and pseudo-problems. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The motion, compared with that of an ordinary land engine, was thus inverted. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He noticed that by holding two of the lenses in a certain position he obtained a large and inverted view of whatever he looked at. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Her engines are of the twin screw, vertical triple expansion direct acting inverted cylinder type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We placed legs on an inverted beaker, and held the two ends of the wires on glass rods eight inches long. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Loerke shook the flask--then he held it inverted over the snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In 1631 Jean Rey just inverted this contrivance, filling the bulb with water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- One end is inserted in the water bath, the other in an inverted bottle. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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