Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Turned in a contrary direction; turned upside down; reversed in order; hence, opposite; contrary.
- Specifically— In heraldry, turned in the other way from what is usual: as, the hands inverted when the fingers point downward. Also
invertant . - In botany, opposed to the normal or usual position, as ovules attached to the apex of the ovary or its cells, or as flowers with the normally dorsal side ventral.
- It geology, lying apparently in inverse or reverse order, as strata which have been folded back on each other by the intrusion of igneous rocks or by crust movements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
- adjective (Geol.) Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.
- adjective (Arch.) an arch placed with crown downward; -- much used in foundations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Changed to a
contrary orcounterchanged order or direction; characterized byinversion ; turnedupside down ;reversed ;opposite ;contrary . - adjective music (of a chord) Having the lowest note
transposed anoctave higher - adjective chemistry (of sugar) Having its
polarization changed by hydrolysis; seeinvert sugar - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
invert .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed
- adjective (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
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Examples
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He took some of this boiled infusion that I have been speaking of, and by the use of a mercurial bath -- a kind of trough used in laboratories -- he deftly inverted a vessel containing the infusion into the mercury, so that the latter reached a little beyond the level of the mouth of the _inverted_ vessel.
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Wolin uses the term inverted totalitarianism to describe our descent into despotism.
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Prins described what she called the inverted pyramid of profits erected on the backs of these sub-prime loans.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Mortgage Fraud Summit Reveals Both Systemic Fraud and FBI's Seeming Blind Eye Suzanne O 2010
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Prins described what she called the inverted pyramid of profits erected on the backs of these sub-prime loans.
Suzanne O'Keeffe: Mortgage Fraud Summit Reveals Both Systemic Fraud and FBI's Seeming Blind Eye Suzanne O'Keeffe 2010
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In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 the title inverted the last two digits of 1948, the year when it was published, he imagined a world divided into three despotic superstates—Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia—permanently at war with one another.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Bettis and McKee later reteamed on the Masters of Horror episode Sick Girl and the short film Blue Like You, as well as in inverted roles when Bettis directed McKee in Roman.
Lucky McKee and Angela Bettis Reteaming For Offspring: The Woman | /Film 2010
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'Lonely' in inverted comma because i made myself feel that way.
Pantsbomber psyche laid bare in messageboard archives (corrected) Boing Boing 2009
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'Lonely' in inverted comma because i made myself feel that way.
Pantsbomber psyche laid bare in messageboard archives (corrected) Boing Boing 2009
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Civilisation is a word we only really see nowadays in inverted commas, but it's a useful concept when thinking about history.
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010
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That egged us on; we became festival promoters, in inverted commas.
My greatest mistake: Pete Lawrence Graham Snowdon 2010
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Severinus used this word to describe Brother Barenger when they were doing his autopsy.
June 13, 2012