invert
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Is invert a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.Examples: "to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc."; "That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions."; "Seldom, alas! the power of logic reigns / With much ſufficiency in royal brains. / Such reaſ'ning falls like an inverted cone, / Wanting its proper baſe to ſtand upon."transitive
2. (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.transitive
3. (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.intransitive
4. (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
noun (English)
1. (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
2. (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
3. (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
4. (obsolete, psychology) A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.Examples: "We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess."obsolete
5. (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.Internet
adj (English)
1. (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.Examples: "invert sugar"not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.informal
Definition source: Wiktionary