invert
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- 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.
Adjective
- Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
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