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verb
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
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.
To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
[H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […]
To turn (the foot) inwards.
noun
An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
adj
Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
invert sugar