invert

Meanings

Plural: inverts

Verb

• make an inversion (in a musical composition)
  • "here the theme is inverted"
• reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
  • "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"
• turn inside out or upside down
• To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
• 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.

Noun

• 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 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.
• An invertebrate.

Adj

• Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

Synonyms

invert, reverse, turn back, up-end

Antonyms

normalize, standardise, unreverse

Related Words

convert, inversion

Anagrams of invert