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Inverted

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.

Inverted

Inverted \In*vert"ed\, a.

  1. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.

  2. (Geol.) Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.

    Inverted arch (Arch.), an arch placed with crown downward; -- much used in foundations.

Wiktionary
inverted
  1. 1 Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order or direction; characterized by inversion; turned upside down; reversed; opposite; contrary. 2 (context music English) (''of a chord'') Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher 3 (context chemistry English) (''of sugar'') Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar v

  2. (en-past of: invert)

WordNet
inverted
  1. adj. being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake" [syn: upside-down]

  2. (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk [syn: anatropous] [ant: amphitropous]

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Usage examples of "inverted".

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.

Clinging together, they swung like an octopedal pendulum above the inverted clockface of Theeo, hooked on a taut line.

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.

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.

Cassiopeia is roaring lionlike in the heavens -- an inverted W signifying my name.

He could see the land of Martinique running down to the south but it was inverted, looking like dark clouds.

The lead polesman swung the nose about, edging it into a long black incursion of water that moved into the gothic depths like an inverted stream.

Below, the analogy was perfected by an inverted tree of rootlike plumbing that spread fractally through the diamondoid bedrock of New Chusan, terminating in the warm water of the South China Sea as numberless capillaries arranged in a belt around the smartcoral reef, several dozen nieters beneath the surface.