Definitions for invert

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invert in·vert

Spelling: [verb in-vurt; adjective, noun in-vurt]

IPA: /verb ɪnˈvɜrt; adjective, noun ˈɪn vɜrt/

Invert is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in invert (einrtv).

Definitions for invert

noun

1. a person or thing that is inverted.
2. a homosexual.
3. (in plumbing) that portion of the interior of a drain or sewer pipe where the liquid is deepest.
4. an inverted arch or vault.
5. Philately. a two-colored postage stamp with all or part of the central design printed upside down in relation to the inscription.

adjective

1. Chemistry. subjected to inversion.

verb (used with object)

1. to turn upside down.
2. to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
3. to turn or change to the opposite or contrary, as in nature, bearing, or effect:
4. to turn inward or back upon itself.
5. to turn inside out.
6. Chemistry. to subject to inversion.
7. Music. to subject to musical inversion.
8. Phonetics. to articulate as a retroflex vowel.

verb (used without object)

1. Chemistry. to become inverted.

Origin of invert

1525-35; Latin invertere to turn upside down or inside out, equivalent to in- in-² + vertere to turn; see verse

Examples for invert

For the same reason an invert is not virtuous because he does not seduce girls.

On the other hand, the invert would have no influence on an individual who was not predisposed.

A method of supporting the invert bars is shown by Fig. 169; 2×2-in.

invert the pie-dish, and cut the paste to the size and shape of the under side of it.

Another way is to invert the hive in which the united swarms are to live, and strike the bees of the other hive into it as before.

The leading idea was to reverse or invert everything in ordinary life.

But this is to invert the order of the agencies by which the improvement of the law is carried on.

But to say that we must make tools first, and then begin, is to invert the process of life.

Just take reality, invert it, and that's what Romney is likely to say.

In the end, the Toulouse killings never did invert head-to-head polling favoring François Hollande before the affair.