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verb

Invert v. t. (past & past part. inverted; pres. part. inverting)

To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, 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." "Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon."

(Mus.) To change the position of; said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

To divert; to convert to a wrong use. (Obs.)

(Chem.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.

Invert v. i. (Chem.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

noun

Invert n. (Masonry) An inverted arch.

adjective

Invert adj. (Chem.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

Invert sugar (Chem.), a variety of sugar, consisting of a mixture of dextrose and levulose, found naturally in fruits, and produced artificially by the inversion of cane sugar (sucrose); also, less properly, the grape sugar or dextrose obtained from starch. See Inversion, Dextrose, Levulose, and Sugar.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Invert" Quotes from Famous Books

... majority of unprejudiced readers. He is, at best, a poor plagiarist; all he can do is to follow slavishly the lead given him by Cervantes; his only humour lies in making Don Quixote take inns for castles and fancy himself some legendary or historical personage, and Sancho mistake words, invert proverbs, and display his gluttony; all through he shows a proclivity to coarseness and dirt, and he has contrived to introduce two tales filthier than anything by the sixteenth century ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... this day. Thou know'st I mean— Lord, make me mind thee. I herewith forestall My own forgetfulness, when I stoop to glean The corn of earth—which yet thy hand lets fall. Be for me then against myself. Oh lean Over me then when I invert my cup; Take me, if by the hair, and lift ...

— A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul • George MacDonald

... secular duel between the Will and the Understanding. It was ex hypothesi impossible for the super-man, a fortiori the super-woman, to yield to the dictates of the understanding. The question arose whether we might not profitably invert metaphysic and, instead of trying to locate personality in totality, begin with personality and work outwards. (Applause.) Otherwise the process of endeavouring to effect a synthesis of centripetal and centrifugal tendencies ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 • Various

... between the Waldenses, Tauler, and Luther, is, however, a heresy more worthy of condemnation than the ignoring of Germany in the Reformation, and doubly deplorable when one sees such blind faith in the bloody sentences of that most miserable court of judgment of Henry VIII. I must therefore invert your formula thus, "L'histoire romanique (romantique) ne vaut pas le Roman historique." (I am not speaking of "Two Years Ago," for I only began to read the book yesterday.) But I am very glad that you think so highly of Froude personally, ...

— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... example Milton's pronunciation would give the second syllable of 'prostrate' a weak accent to support the metrical stress. That he was willing to take the extreme risk, however, and actually invert the rhythm of the last foot, appears from unequivocal ...

— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum

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