An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
INVERT
invert, reverse
(verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; “when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb”
invert
(verb) make an inversion (in a musical composition); “here the theme is inverted”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
invert (third-person singular simple present inverts, present participle inverting, simple past and past participle inverted)
(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
(transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
(chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
(anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
Noun
invert (plural inverts)
(obsolete, psychology) A homosexual.
(architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *
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.
(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
A skateboarding 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.
(zoology, informal) invertebrate
Adjective
invert (not comparable)
(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
Anagrams
• Vinter, ventri-, virent
Source: Wiktionary
In*vert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Inverting.] Etym: [L. invertere, inversum; pref. in- in + vertere to turn. See Verse.]
1. 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. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
3. To divert; to convert to a wrong use. [Obs.] Knolles.
4. (Chem.)
Definition: To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
In*vert", v. i. (Chem.)
Definition: To undergo inversion, as sugar.
In"vert, a. (Chem.)
Definition: Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar. Invert sugar (Chem.), a variety of sugar, consisting of a mixture of dextrose and levulose, found naturally in fruits, and produced artificially by the inversion of cane sugar (sucrose); also, less properly, the grape sugar or dextrose obtained from starch. See Inversion, Dextrose, Levulose, and Sugar.
In"vert, n. (Masonry)
Definition: An inverted arch.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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