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in·vert Audio Help   (ĭn-vûrt') Pronunciation Key
v.   in·vert·ed, in·vert·ing, in·verts

v.   tr.

To turn inside out or upside down: invert an hourglass.
To reverse the position, order, or condition of: invert the subject and predicate of a sentence.
To subject to inversion. See Synonyms at reverse.

v. intr.
To be subjected to inversion.

n. (ĭn'vûrt')

Something inverted.
Psychology
1. One who takes on the gender role of the opposite sex.
2. 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-² in Indo-European roots.]

in·vert'i·ble adj.

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inverted
adjective
1.	being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake"
2.	(of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk [syn: anatropous] [ant: amphitropous]

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Inverted

In*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Inverting.] [L. invertere, inversum; pref. in- in + vertere to turn. See Verse.]

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.

That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. --Shak.

Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. --Cowper.

2. (Mus.) 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. [Obs.] --Knolles.

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

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