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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
invert
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inverted comma
▪ Her friends, in inverted commas, all disappeared when she was in trouble.
inverted snobbery
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in inverted commas
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Invert the cake and pan on a wire rack and remove the pan.
▪ A camera inverts the image it receives.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invert

Invert \In"vert\, a. (Chem.) 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.

Invert

Invert \In"vert\, n. (Masonry) An inverted arch.

Invert

Invert \In*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Inverting.] [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.) 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.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.

Invert

Invert \In*vert"\, v. i. (Chem.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invert

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.

Wiktionary
invert
  1. (context chemistry English) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted. n. 1 (context archaic English) A homosexual man. 2 (context architecture English) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). * 3 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. invert (in'‑vert) The floor or bottom of the internal cross section of a closed conduit, such as an aqueduct, tunnel, or drain - The term originally referred to the inverted arch used to form the bottom of a masonry‑lined sewer or tunnel (Jackson, 1997) Wilson, W.E., Moore, J.E., (2003) ''Glossary of Hydrology,'' Berlin: Springer 4 (context civil engineering English) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point. 5 (context civil engineering English) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction. 2 (context transitive music English) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch. 3 (context chemistry intransitive English) To undergo inversion, as sugar. 4 To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

WordNet
invert
  1. v. make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted"

  2. turn inside out or upside down [syn: reverse]

Wikipedia

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.