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  • noun Plural form of invert.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invert.

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Examples

  • Even more obvious is his partner "Rass Buten," whose name inverts the consonants in Bas Rutten's name (and otherwise bears little resemblance to the Dutch fighter / broadcaster).

    Dick Hyacinth's One-stop Hyphen Shop 2009

  • They began censoring public debate about the existence of "inverts" and "pedersts".

    Argentina gay person of color 2007

  • The group claimed Chrysler's proposed plan "inverts" the usual priority scheme, whereby senior secured creditors are paid in full first, followed by junior lenders, administrative claims, unsecured lenders and equity holders.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • I have seen some other fiction of this period when everyone wanted to talk about sex and psychology and call gay people "inverts" and frankly it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between the first-rate

    The Millions 2009

  • Rather, Lauria said, Chrysler's proposed plan "inverts" the classic priority scheme written into the bankruptcy code, where senior secured creditors are paid in full first, followed by junior lenders, administrative claims, unsecured lenders and equity holders.

    Reuters: Top News 2009

  • Rather, Lauria said, Chrysler's proposed plan "inverts" the classic priority scheme written into the bankruptcy code, where senior secured creditors are paid in full first, followed by junior lenders, administrative claims, unsecured lenders and equity holders.

    Reuters: Top News 2009

  • The group claimed Chrysler's proposed plan "inverts" the usual priority scheme, whereby senior secured creditors are paid in full first, followed by junior lenders, administrative claims, unsecured lenders and equity holders.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • Tom Lauria, a bankruptcy attorney representing a group of secured lenders, has said Chrysler's proposed plan "inverts" the usual priority scheme, whereby senior secured creditors are paid in full first, followed by junior lenders, administrative claims, unsecured lenders and equity holders.

    BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content 2009

  • Tom Lauria, a bankruptcy attorney representing a group of secured lenders, has said Chrysler's proposed plan "inverts" the usual priority scheme, whereby senior secured creditors are paid in full first, followed by junior lenders, administrative claims, unsecured lenders and equity holders.

    BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content 2009

  • The equivalent of such a scaling in one dimension would be that reliability is inversely proportional to the standard deviation of the noise distribution, and therefore closely related to the Having specified the generative model, we can now formalize the Bayesian inference process which "inverts" it.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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