invert
to turn upside down.
to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
to turn or change to the opposite or contrary, as in nature, bearing, or effect: to invert a process.
to turn inward or back upon itself.
to turn inside out.
Chemistry. to subject to a reaction in which a starting material of one optical configuration forms a product of the opposite configuration.
Music. to subject to musical inversion, the transposition between the upper voice part and the lower.
Phonetics. to articulate as a retroflex vowel.
Chemistry. to undergo a reaction in which a starting material of one optical configuration forms a product of the opposite configuration.
Chemistry. subjected to a reaction in which a starting material of one optical configuration forms a product of the opposite configuration.
a person or thing that is reversed in position, changed to the contrary, or turned upside down, inside out, or inward.
(in plumbing) that portion of the interior of a drain or sewer pipe where the liquid is deepest.
a U-shaped arch or vault, having the opposite vertical orientation compared to a traditional arch or vault.
Philately. a two-colored postage stamp with all or part of the central design printed upside down in relation to the inscription.
Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use)
a gay person.
a person whose behavior is considered nonnormative for their assigned sex, historically involving both gender non-conforming or transgender expression and gay or lesbian sexual orientation.
Disparaging and Offensive. anyone whose sexuality or gender expression is regarded as strange or unnatural, especially a gay or transgender person.
Informal. (especially among aquarists) invertebrate: My invert tank is mostly sea slugs, but I bought a couple of shrimp recently also.
Origin of invert
1synonym study For invert
Other words from invert
- in·vert·i·ble, adjective
- non·in·vert·ed, adjective
- un·in·vert·ed, adjective
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How to use invert in a sentence
Muaddi’s summer collection for Fenty introduced a new inverted stiletto heel which carries on into the duo’s latest collection.
Fenty Releases Second Round Of Heels By Amina Muaddi | Nandi Howard | November 12, 2020 | Essence.comIf you rotate an electron by 360 degrees, its state will be inverted, just as an arrow, when moved around a 2D Möbius strip, comes back around pointing the opposite way.
Our approach applies DeepCT over each passage in the corpus, and stores the context-aware term weights in an ordinary inverted index to replace tf.
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT? | Dawn Anderson | October 29, 2020 | Search Engine LandDepending on the identity and influence of the complainant, it may even completely invert their opinion of you.
How to create a consistent omnichannel customer experience | Rodney Laws | October 22, 2020 | Search Engine WatchI also learned the power of what they called an inverted pyramid, where the leadership team is at the bottom of the pyramid, because we bear the weight for the actions that we take and the decisions that we make.
The holidays used to be UPS’s busiest time. Then came COVID-19 | Aaron Pressman | October 19, 2020 | Fortune
The flier itself shows an inverted Islamic State flag, with Arabic script below it.
The painting is mostly a bone-colored affair, as the background overwhelms the inverted spiral of the levels of Hell.
Fact-Checking Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’: 10 Mistakes, False Statements, and Oversimplifications | Noah Charney | May 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe EP-3E immediately flips over into a nearly completely inverted dive.
It is not compassionate, it is not wise, and it reflects a completely inverted sense of priorities.
The crew of Alaska Air 261 briefly attempted to regain control by flying inverted.
It is only necessary to have a zinc, or a galvanized tray on which to stand the glass in an inverted position.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinA world of sky and water, with ships and boats, resting on their own inverted images, in the midst.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneUm could reach the highest shelf without standing on an inverted rice-pot, or the even more precarious fish-cleaning bench.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaI carry the pile to the table provided with an iron post, about eighteen inches high, topped with a small inverted disk.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanThere may be a sort of inverted vanity in refusing fair play to a power, on that ground.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona Caird
British Dictionary definitions for invert
to turn or cause to turn upside down or inside out
(tr) to reverse in effect, sequence, direction, etc
(tr) phonetics
to turn (the tip of the tongue) up and back
to pronounce (a speech sound) by retroflexion
logic to form the inverse of a categorial proposition
psychiatry
a person who adopts the role of the opposite sex
another word for homosexual
architect
the lower inner surface of a drain, sewer, etc: Compare soffit (def. 2)
an arch that is concave upwards, esp one used in foundations
Origin of invert
1Derived forms of invert
- invertible, adjective
- invertibility, noun
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