Inverted
[ɪn'vɜːtɪd] or [ɪn'vɝt]
Definition
(adj.) being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; 'a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma'; 'an upside-down cake' .
Editor: Pedro--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Invert
(a.) Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
(a.) Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.
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Examples
- 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.
- The steel buckets scoop up the material at the bottom of the ladder, which they then ascend, and are discharged by becoming inverted at the upper end of the ladder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Far down the inverted telescope he saw the faint white figure of May Welland--in New York. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It looks as if it might be roofed, from centre to circumference, with inverted saucers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A luminous image of any object placed in front of the lens is thrown in an inverted position upon the screen, which is of ground glass, to permit the image to be seen in focusing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A large number of baths can be run by this contrivance by simply connecting them, by means of rubber tubes, with a reservoir replenished by an inverted bottle. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- How far, in their inverted culture, had these West Africans gone beyond phallic knowledge? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If we place over each end of the wire an inverted jar filled with water, the gases are easily collected. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A very simple apparatus for the purpose is shown in Fig. 224, in which a vessel containing water has an inverted bell or cylinder within it, open at its lower end. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Fill a glass tube about a yard long with mercury, close the open end with a finger, and quickly insert the end of the inverted tube in a dish of mercury (Fig. 43). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Into one of the cans a bottle of water is inverted. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This can be done by floating on water a light dish containing phosphorus, then igniting the phosphorus, and placing an inverted jar over the burning substance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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