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Inverted   /ɪnvˈərtɪd/   Listen
Inverted

adjective
1.
Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed.  Synonym: upside-down.  "An upside-down cake"
2.
(of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk.  Synonym: anatropous.


Invert

verb
(past & past part. inverted; pres. part. inverting)
1.
Make an inversion (in a musical composition).
2.
Reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of.  Synonym: reverse.
3.
Turn inside out or upside down.  Synonyms: reverse, turn back.



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"Inverted" Quotes from Famous Books



... they were forced to support paupers, they could contrive to save the payment of wages. They could use the labour of the rate-supported pauper instead of employing independent workmen. The evils thus produced led before long to most important discussions.[91] The ordinary view of the poor-law was inverted. The prominent evil was the reckless increase of a degraded population instead of the restriction of population. Eden's own view is sufficiently indicative of the light in which the facts showed themselves to intelligent economists. ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen
... does it matter whose it is? There may be a sort of inverted vanity in refusing fair play to a power, on that ground. Alas! here is one of the first morbid signs of the evil at work upon you. If you had been wholesomely moving and striving in the right direction, do you think you would have been guilty ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... shown thrown back at the top of the machine is drawn into a vertical position after flask has been placed and filled with sand. The 3-way cock shown at the extreme left is then quickly opened, admitting compressed air of 70 to 80 pounds pressure to the inverted cylinder shown at the center of the cut. The cylinder, with the entire upper portion of the machine, is thus driven forcibly up against the ramming head, flask, sand and all. Often a single blow suffices to rain the mould—often ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various
... must be written on parchment, or other suitable substance, in the manner below, omitting in every new line the last letter of the former line, so that the whole may form a kind of inverted cone: ...
— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant
... 6 and 7 stand in an inverted relation to each other. In ver. 6, we have, first, the punishment described, and then their hostile nature, by which the punishment was called forth. In ver. 7, we have, first, the cause, and then the ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg


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