invert

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To turn (something) upside down or inside out

   To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

   • to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
   • That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.
   • Seldom, alas! the power of logic reigns / With much ſufficiency in royal brains. / Such reaſ'ning falls like an inverted cone, / Wanting its proper baſe to ſtand upon.
2. 2

   To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.

3. 3

   To undergo inversion, as sugar.

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   1. 4

      To divert

      To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

      • [H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […]
   2. 5

      To turn (the foot) inwards.

   3. 6

      An inverted arch (as in a sewer).

   4. 7

      The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction…

      The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.

   5. 8

      The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.

   6. 9

      An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

   7. 10

      A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand…

      A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.

   8. 11

      A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.

   9. 12

      Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.

   10. 13

       Subjected to the process of inversion

       Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

       • invert sugar
   11. 14

       An invertebrate.

The neighborhood

• synonyminvert
• synonymreverse
• synonymup-end
• antonymnormalize
• antonymstandardise
• antonymunreverse
• neighborinversion
• neighborconvert
• neighborflip the script
• neighborturn the tables