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.]
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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.
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That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,
As if these organs had deceptious functions. --Shak.
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Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone,
Wanting its proper base to stand upon. --Cowper.
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2. (Mus.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which
form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
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3. To divert; to convert to a wrong use. [Obs.] --Knolles.
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4. (Chem.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or
subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inverted \In*vert"ed\, a.
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1. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed;
characterized by inversion.
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2. (Geol.) Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata
when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.
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Inverted arch (Arch.), an arch placed with crown downward;
-- much used in foundations.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inverted
adj 1: 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "inverted":
arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backwards, capsized,
chiastic, everted, gay, homoerotic, homophile, hyperbatic,
inside out, introverted, invaginated, inversed, outside in,
palindromic, queer, resupinate, retroverted, reversed, topsy-turvy,
transposed, upside-down, wrong side out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
anatropous, upside-down
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