invert.
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it.
Meaning & usage
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it.
To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
To turn (the foot) inwards.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French invertir.
An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
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.
The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French invertir.
Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
invert sugar
Where this word comes from
From Middle French invertir.
An invertebrate.
Where this word comes from
Abbreviation of invertebrate.
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