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
When Macaulay inverts the order of a sentence does he usually do it for emphasis or to secure coherence?
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterDuring the implantation of conjugial love, the love of the sex inverts itself, and becomes the chaste love of the sex, n. 99.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love | Emanuel SwedenborgBcquer, in his striving after complicated metrical arrangements, often inverts the word-order in his verse.
Modern Spanish Lyrics | VariousChalmers holds that the Ricardian doctrine of rent inverts the true order.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) | Leslie StephenFourthly, utilitarianism inverts the true relation between right and utility.
Theoretical Ethics | Milton Valentine
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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