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Invert [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To turn into a contrary direction; to turn upside down; as, to invert a cone; to invert a hollow vessel.

2. To place in a contrary order or method; as, to invert the rules of justice; to invert the order of words.

3. And winter storms invert the year.

4. In music, to change the order of the notes which form a chord, or the parts which compose harmony.

5. To divert; to turn into another channel; to embezzle. [Not in use.]

Invert [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

Invert [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An inverted arch.

Invert [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To undergo inversion, as sugar.

Invert [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

3. To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

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

Invertebral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Destitute of vertebral column, as animals.

Invertebral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Invertebrate.

Invertebrata [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.

Invertebrate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebrae; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata.

Invertebrate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the Invertebrata.

Invertebrated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Destitute of a back bone or vertebral chain. [ See Vertebrated .]

Invertebrated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no backbone; invertebrate.

Inverted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Turned to a contrary direction; turned upside down; changed in order.

Inverted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.

2. Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.

Inverted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Invertedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a contrary or reversed order.

Invertedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an inverted order.

Invertent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A medicine intended to invert the natural order of the successive irritative motions in the system.

Invertible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Capable of being inverted or turned.

2. Capable of being changed or converted; as, invertible sugar.

3. Incapable of being turned or changed.

Invertin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.

Inverting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Turning in a contrary direction; changing the order.

Inverting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Contrariety Roget’s Thesaurus §14

N. contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness, contradiction, antagonism, clashing, repugnance, inversion, the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme

V. be contrary, contrast with, oppose, diller toto coelo, invert, reverse, turn the tables, turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end, turn upside down, turn inside out, contradict, contravene, antagonize

Adj. contrary, contrarious, contrariant, opposite, counter, dead against, converse, reverse, opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing, conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes, negative, hostile, differing toto coelo, diametrically opposite, diametrically opposed, as opposite as black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite as the poles, as different as night and day, "hyperion to a satyr", quite the contrary, quite the reverse, no such thing, just the other way, tout au contraire

Adv. contrarily, contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the contrary, nay rather, vice versa, on the other hand

Phr. "all concord's born of contraries", thesis, antithesis, synthesis

Inversion Roget’s Thesaurus §218

N. inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination

V. be inverted &c, turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about, turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over, capsize, turn turtle, invert, subvert, retrovert, introvert, reverse, up turn, over turn, up set, over set, turn topsy turvy, culbuter, transpose, put the cart before the horse, turn the tables

Adj. inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy- turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy

Adv. inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels