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in·vert

(ĭn-vûrt′)

v. in·vert·ed, in·vert·ing, in·verts

v.tr.

1. To turn inside out or upside down: invert an hourglass.

2. To reverse the position, order, or condition of: invert the subject and predicate of a sentence. See Synonyms at reverse.

3. To subject to inversion.

v.intr.

To be subjected to inversion.

n. (ĭn′vûrt′)

1. Something inverted.

2. Psychology

a. One who takes on the gender role of the opposite sex.

b. In the theory of Sigmund Freud, a homosexual person. No longer in scientific use.

[Latin invertere : in-, in; see in-² + vertere, to turn; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

in·vert′i·ble adj.

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Adj.	1.	inverted - being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake" upside-down turned - moved around an axis or center
	2.	inverted - (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk anatropous plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

inverted

adjective

Turned over completely:

capsized, overturned, upset, upside-down, upturned.

Translations

invertiert

inverted

[ɪnˈvɜːtɪd] ADJ inverted commas (Brit) → comillas fpl
in inverted commas → entre comillas
inverted snob persona que desprecia las actitudes propias de la clase social a la que pertenece, intentando identificarse con gente de una clase supuestamente inferior
inverted snobbery → esnobismo m regresivo

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inverted

inverted commas

pl (Brit) → Anführungszeichen pl; his new job, in inverted → sein sogenannter neuer Job

inverted snobbery

n that’s just inverted → das ist die umgekehrte Variante von Snobismus

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Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted. My God!

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Henceforward he saw every appearance of virtue in the youth through the magnifying end, and viewed all his faults with the glass inverted, so that they became scarce perceptible.

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"It seems a paradox, does it not," he went on, "that the image formed on the Retina should be inverted?"

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As the gong sounded, one of his seconds inverted a water bottle on his head.

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On top of all he placed the cooking pot, inverted, and on top of this he laid one of the grinning skulls, upon which he fastened the headdress of the dead Kulonga.

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After their departure, taking place in inverted order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward.

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On the other hand, the effect may be inverted. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

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The chimney-corner and once blazing hearth was now filled with inverted beehives, in which the hens laid their eggs; while out of doors the plots that each succeeding householder had carefully shaped with his spade were torn by the cocks in wildest fashion.

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After half an hour of skillful maneuvering, the Englishman rose rapidly to a considerable altitude, and then, suddenly, without warning, he looped and flew with the plane inverted for a few seconds.

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The fresh chill air was faintly charged with the aroma of pine balsam, and the sky above was crystal clear and blue -- a great inverted cup of blessing.

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So he stood, after regaining balance, and soberly regarded, in a vain effort to understand, the mate with a bottle- bottom inverted skyward, the mouth to his lips, the while his throat made gulping contractions and noises.

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By crossing and lashing the ends of two spars, and then elevating them in the air like an inverted "V," I could get a point above the deck to which to make fast my hoisting tackle.