Found 6 hits - Term: invert, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
invert \in"vert\, n. masonry
an inverted arch.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
invert \invert"\, v. t. imp. p. p. inverted; p. pr. vb.
n. inverting. l. invertere, inversum; pref. in- in +
vertere to turn. see verse.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
that doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,
as if these organs had deceptious functions. --shak.
1913 webster
such reasoning falls like an inverted cone,
wanting its proper base to stand upon. --cowper.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
inverted inverting verse inversion
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
invert \invert"\, v. i. chem.
to undergo inversion, as sugar.
1913 webster
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
invert \in"vert\, a. chem.
subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted;
as, invert sugar.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
invert sugar inversion dextrose levulose sugar
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
invert
v 1: make an inversion in a musical composition; "here the
theme is inverted"
2: turn inside out or upside down syn: reverse
see also:
reverse
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 moby thesaurus words for "invert":
auntie, bi-guy, bisexual, bull dyke, butch, catamite, change,
chicken, convert, dyke, evert, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flip,
flit, fricatrice, fruit, gunsel, homo, homophile, homosexual,
homosexualist, introvert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse,
lesbian, nance, pansy, pathic, pronate, punk, queen, queer,
resupinate, reverse, revert, revolve, rotate, sapphist, supinate,
transplace, transpose, tribade, turn, turn about, turn around,
turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn out, turn over,
turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down
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