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- adjective Not
inverted
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Examples
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On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits.
Ulysses 2003
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On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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It is liable, of course, to be overdone, but there are several ways of avoiding that: sometimes it is possible to place the sign-post at the beginning without inversion; or the uninverted sentence may be reconstructed, so that the subject no longer carries the emphasis; and, as often as not, a sentence of which the accentuation is theoretically doubtful may in practice be left to the reader's discernment.
Inversion. 1908
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If we restore the St. Matthew quotation to the uninverted form, again we have an answer to either of two questions: What is the basis of the law? and What is the importance of these two commandments?
Inversion. 1908
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The sentence is, no doubt, cumbrous in the uninverted form; but it wants reconstruction, not inversion.
Inversion. 1908
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When all types and subjects are thus combined the summation of these inconstant retardations presents sharply differentiated terms and a curve uninverted at any point.
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Gracenotes: foldr chosen for its magical evil terminating powers uninverted: Moving from lisp to haskell with respect to functions is like moving from c to perl with respect to strings.
The Haskell Sequence - News about Haskell byorgey 2009
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