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invert
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Word definitions for invert in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Middle French invertir or directly from Latin invertere "turn upside down, turn about," from in- "in, on" (see in- (2)) + vertere "to turn" (see versus ). Related: Inverted ; inverting ; invertedly .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invert \In*vert"\, v. i. (Chem.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
Usage examples of invert.
The flight back was enlivened by some aerobatics in which we dutifully followed Bill, maintaining our position in relation to his aircraft whether he was inverted or not.
Coyote killed the afterburner, then snapped the Tomcat into a wingover which sent the heavy aircraft plunging toward the cloud deck in an inverted dive.
Chalky white shells bearing the inverted contours of various automata were stacked along the walls.
On the backswing, so swiftly that Tommy could hardly follow the separate movements, he threaded his ankles through his looped hands and swung there, his body arched into an inverted hoop.
You invert it over a gas burner and, when it is hot, bake Turkish flat breads on its convex surface.
Clinging together, they swung like an octopedal pendulum above the inverted clockface of Theeo, hooked on a taut line.
This primacy of the spiritual inverts the Darwinian materialism on the doctrine of utility.
Little by little, as the administration develops, the relationship between society and power, between the multitude and the sovereign state, is inverted so that now power and the state produce society.
Above arched a dim sky like a stupendous inverted hollow cup of dimmest jade .
Henceforward he saw every appearance of virtue in the youth through the magnifying end, and viewed all his faults with the glass inverted, so that they became scarce perceptible.
The passenger gene had come unstuck and attached itself to a section of an inverted repeat sequence on the wrong strand of the heteroduplex he had created that morning.
Behaviourism itself, indeed, had been originally a kind of inverted Puritan faith, according to which intellectual salvation involved acceptance of a crude materialistic dogma, chiefly because it was repugnant to the self-righteous, and unintelligible to intellectuals of the earlier schools.
The Falcon shrieked into the sky, inverting as it twisted out to an Immelmann.
He inverts all values and all proportions, because he is constantly under the impression that he is deciphering signs: for him, the crown makes the king.
When the woman began to tremble and moan, the girl rose up, knelt behind George and presented a curious inverted face to study his ministrations.