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
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.
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
invert (not comparable)
(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
• 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
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
