invert

1. 1

   To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of itself.transitive

   • to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
2. 2

   To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.transitive

3. 3

   To undergo inversion, as sugar.intransitive

4. 4

   To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

   • [H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […]
5. 5

   To turn (the foot) inwards.

syn. invert · reverse · up-end

ant. normalize · standardise · unreverse

1. 1

   An inverted arch (as in a sewer).

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.

4. 4

   An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.obsolete

   • We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put int
7. 7

   Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.Internet

8. 8

   A stamp accidentally printed upside-down.

1. 1

   Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.not-comparable

   • invert sugar

1. 1

   An invertebrate.informal