From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Invert \In*vert"\, verb (used with an object) [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}, noun, 10.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inverted \In*vert"ed\, adjective
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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