invertedadj.n.
/ɪnˈvəːtɪd/, U.S. /ᵻnˈvərdəd/ A. adj.
I. Reversed or transposed, and related senses.† 5. Navy and Military. Of a line of battle, fighting force, or formation: in which the former or usual order or arrangement of units, ships, etc., is reversed; in a reversed formation. Cf. invert v. 3. Obsolete.
1.
a. That has developed or has been endowed with a contrary character or tendency; that has been completely altered in meaning, effect, or relations, so as to act in the opposite way.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > opposite or opposed
turneda1325
reversedc1390
contrary1413
opposeda1500
oppositea1513
inverted1563
counter1596
diametrical1613
contraposed1620
oppositive1622
averse1623
diagonial1624
contrarying1628
diametrala1631
conversive1636
Antipodian1640
converted1640
exadverse1647
Antarctic1651
Antipodean1651
antipodal1664
in reverse1694
contradictory1736
converse1794
antithesistic1801
contravening1802
diametric1802
reverse1828
polar1832
antipodist1844
antithetic1864
other-sided1879
antipodic1881
1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse sig. 4v So haue we to iudge of his preposterus and inuerted Silenus who regardeth nothing the prophanation and abuse of Gods holy Name, and so to make him author of vntreuth.
1692 C. Gildon Nuncius Infernalis i. 7 Your Sentiment, that Friendship cou'd be among none but the Vertuous, is now quite inverted; for they cease to be Friends as soon as either takes to..Vertue.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 127. ⁋1 This inverted Idolatry, wherein the Image did Homage to the Man.
1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings xvi. §55. 166 All the true and substantial powers of Government were in an inverted relation and proportion to the official and ostensible authorities.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xii. 184 The mere inverted Jesuitism of a man resolved to do good that evil might come.
1881 R. Adamson Fichte 130 The theoretical part..is nothing but an inverted or idealistic Spinozism.
1917 J. Conrad Let. May (1956) 252 It's true that I managed to get furious with you for about 7½ seconds, but that, really, was a sort of inverted tribute.
2008 C. M. Asch Senator & Sharecropper iii. 96 Eastland would not stand for such an inverted social order, and he embarked upon a political career to preserve the hierarchical order he knew.
b. With reference to position, order, or direction: that has been reversed or placed in a contrary sequence; transposed or interchanged; spec. (of syntax, a clause, etc.) in which the normal or familiar order of words is reversed or transposed.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > reversing natural order > reversed (of order)
preposterous1533
inverse1568
inversed1573
inverted1577
retrograde1664
cockeye1899
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 246/1 in Chron. I They tithed the people after an inuerted order, slaying the whole nines through the whole multitude, and reserued the tenth.
1591 R. Turnbull Expos. Epist. St. Iames sig. D Now this Treatise is a little inuerted, and troubled by a digression which is necessarily made, 6. 7. 8. verses wherin the second place is conteyned.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 230 Defects are to be supplied;..and the inverted parts are to be placed in order.
1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord 51 I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me.
1816 Med. Repos. N.Y. 1 Mar. 295 Such an inverted order of seasons was also noticed by Hippocrates.
1901 W. B. Yeats Let. 11 Aug. (1994) III. 104 You certainly get vivid effects out of your modern words & I do not now find any of the verse too intricate in its thought though I do sometimes regret an inverted phrase.
1938 Evening News 7 Mar. 11/5 A few inverted words have found common acceptance; slop (policeman), yob or yobbo (street rough, an inverted form of boy).
2017 B. Charry Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama i. viii. 198 In the example from Hamlet, the inverted syntax allows the sentence to begin and end with two sets of words that stand in startling contrast to each other.
c. Of meaning, sense, or significance: contrary to that which is usual or expected; reversed in signification.
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the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective] > in meaning
inverted1646
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > [adjective] > reversed in meaning
inverted1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iv. 14 Intended expressions receiving inverted significations. View more context for this quotation
1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 97 Were I inclined to an Observation of Omens and Prodigies, I should..make an inverted use of the words of the Reverend Publisher.
1757 J. Shebbeare Occas. Critic 69 I..have discovered to your Readers, that your Criticisms are to be understood in the inverted Sense.
1834 Obs. Mineral Waters in South Western Part of Virginia 29 When much altitude is reached, the descent is fearful; in this respect, the line, Descensus Averni facilis est, has an inverted meaning.
1899 Spectator 15 Apr. 514/2 This parting injunction is..written in perfect seriousness and with no thought of an inverted meaning.
1948 Hartford (Connecticut) Daily Courant 25 June 4/5 There seemed to many who had been the hall all last night to be an inverted significance to the choice of ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’ as the selections [sic] of the vocalist.
1967 Sat. Rev. 20 May 97/1 Permit me to narrow my criticism..to one telltale aspect of their deceptive presentation of the problem: their theft of the word ‘integration’ from its true meaning..and their use of it in a completely inverted sense.
2015 S. Raymond Supporting Key Stage 2 & 3 Dyslexic Pupils: Dragonfly Worksheets (ed. 2) 17 ‘Unpleasant’ makes use of the prefix ‘un-’ in order to denote inverted meaning.
2. Heraldry. Depicted pointing or turned in a direction contrary to that which is typical or expected; esp. (of the wings of a bird) depicted with the tips pointing downwards. Also: facing, pointing, or curving inwards. Cf. invertant adj.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > specific aspects of heraldic beasts
regardantc1460
addorsed1572
guardant1572
inverted1610
despectant1688
recursant1688
respectant1688
suspectant1688
adossé1710
affrontee1718
affrontee1724
tourné1725
spectant1825
three-quarteredc1828
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xvii. 159 The Field is Ruby, two Wings, Inuerted and conioined Topaz.
1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry i. v. 67 When fishes are borne swimming you shall say Naiant..when respecting each other, Inverted.
1717 S. Kent Dict. Arms 32 Aquin in Dauphiny; Azure, four Piles inverted argent, meeting in Chief, Chevronways.
1726 S. Kent Banner Display'd I. ii. vii. 111 A Lion rampant Or, holding an Anchor inverted Argent.
1775 H. Clark & T. Wormull Short & Easy Introd. Heraldry 26 Inverted denotes any thing that is turned the wrong way; particularly wings are said to be inverted, when the points of them are down.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xi. 65 If the tips of the wings droop downwards they are inverted.
1892 J. Woodward & G. Burnett Treat. Heraldry II. 501 Azure, three horse shoes inverted argent.
1908 A. F. Pimbley Dict. Heraldry 43/1 Inverted, in a contrary direction; turned the wrong way, as a pair of wings with the points downward.
2000 K. Greaves Canad. Heraldic Primer iv. 18 After the body, the position of the wings is mentioned, such as elevated (tips upwards), inverted (tips downwards) or addorsed (back to back).
3. Mathematics. = inverse adj. 3 (in various senses).
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > describing relationships between quantities > inverse
reciprocal1570
reverse1594
inverse proportion1660
inverted1678
conjugate1680
conjugated1798
1678 J. Hawkins Cocker's Arithm. xi. 186 The Quotient will give you the 4th. term sought in an Inverted Proportion.
1744 T. Stack in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 418 It is allowed, that the translative Velocities of its Points cannot be in an inverted Ratio to the Roots of the Distances.
1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 125 Every sphere in the original system becomes another sphere in the inverted system.
1949 Analyt. Chem. 8 891/1 Considerable time can be saved in these calculations by the use of the inverted equations.
2017 Z. Kowalczuk & M. Tatara in C. Verde & L. Torres Modeling & Monitoring of Pipelines & Networks iii. 59 The models are analyzed in terms of the Euclidean norm of the difference between the two inverted matrices.
4. Music.
a. Of a chord (esp. a triad) or interval: that is or has been altered by the transposition of a note or notes into a higher (or lower) octave. Also: of or relating to such a chord or interval. See inversion n. 6a.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [adjective] > arrangement of notes
supposed1730
inverted1737
primitive1786
direct1864
1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music i. 4 Of Intervals inverted [Fr. Du renversement des Intervales].
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Inverted, a term applicable to certain positions of any..chord.
1850 J. J. de Virués y Spínola & F. T. A. Chaluz de Vernevil Orig. Gram. Harmony iv. 26 Every inverted minor becomes major, and every inverted major becomes minor.
1889 E. Prout Harmony i. §26 An inverted 5th becomes a 4th.
1922 Elem. School Jrnl. Dec. 285 The interval of a fourth in descending form (inverted fifth) proves to be the simplest problem for monotone hearing and singing.
1951 Notes 2nd Ser. 8 406/2 An atmosphere of wistful suspension is achieved with an accompaniment based primarily on chords in inverted position.
1994 Math. Gaz. 78 123 The note G..defines what is called the inverted interval from G to C.
2010 N. Scoggin Barron's AP Music Theory ix. 202 Inverted chords may serve to create an arpeggio in the bass line.
b. Of the parts or voices in a piece of contrapuntal music: transposed with one another so that the higher parts are placed below the lower, or vice versa. Of a piece of contrapuntal music: in which the parts or voices have been transposed in this way.In quot. 1786 apparently referring to one of the parts in a piece of contrapuntal music.
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1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Inverted, a term applicable to certain positions of any subject.
1834 A. Merrick tr. Albrechtsberger's Methods Harmony, Figured Base & Composition xxx. 224 The intervals in the two inverted parts [of a double counterpoint in the octave] must appear in the following way: [etc.].
1880 Truth 30 Sept. 416/2 One can listen..without feeling the slightest inclination to quarrel with the composer on the score of abnormal progressions or inverted counterpoint.
1902 P. Goetschius Counterpoint Appl. v. 117 The last 4 measures of the two Parts correspond, but in different keys and with inverted voices.
1959 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 12 109 [The voluntary] by Walond has a slow introduction (containing more inverted counterpoint in bars 6–11 than one is prepared for at first sight).
2009 Music Theory Spectrum 31 103/1 Inventions of Type 2..open with a longer theme combined with a countersubject, followed by another statement with inverted voices.
c. Of a melody or theme: formed by the alteration of each ascending interval into the corresponding descending interval, and vice versa; in which the upward and downward motion of the melody or theme is reversed.
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1813 Brit. Rev. May 327 We really do not see how an inverted answer can be called the same melody as its subject.
1891 Musical Times 1 Apr. 213 The graceful Minuet with its two Trios, the second founded upon the inverted theme of the first.
1949 Musical Q. 35 9 Tension gradually grows through skilful imitative treatment of this inverted melody against itself and against the theme in its original form.
1977 Irish Times 11 Apr. 8/7 The subsequent diminuendo fades away into a most mystic reach for the new, inverted statement of the fugue.
2002 D. Ledbetter Bach's Well-tempered Clavier 200 The inverted version of the subject may be seen as a version of this, and so related in affect to its recto version.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [adjective] > other evolutions
inverted1779
1779 Minutes Proc. Court-martial Sir Hugh Palliser 127/2 Did I not give Instructions..to direct an inverted Line, when I should see Occasion for it, by way of providing for calling Ships into the Situation of changing the Order of their Line, when I thought it for public advantage?
1833 United Service Jrnl. July 352 Squadrons shall always be in the usual order within themselves, though inverted as regards their relative positions in the line.
1870 Field Q. Mag. & Rev. Nov. 274/2 The old-fashioned inverted line is all very well, and by its use a regiment can be made to front in any direction quickly.
1884 W. Bainbridge-Hoff Examples, Concl., & Maxims Mod. Naval Tactics (U.S. Office Naval Intelligence: Gen. Information Ser. No. 3) vii. 94 The natural order should always be maintained except when forced by circumstances to form in an inverted formation.
6. Of sucrose or a solution of it: that has been hydrolysed resulting in conversion into glucose and fructose; see invert v. 6.Chiefly in inverted sugar n. at Compounds.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > carbohydrates > sugars > [adjective] > inverted
inverted1845
invert1864
1845 Let. from Secretary of Treasury Chem. Anal. Sugars 28 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (28th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 165) IX Soubeiran has shown that inverted cane sugar rotates to the left only while in the liquid state.
1870 Chem. News 25 Feb. 87/1 It is not necessary to make any optical experiment on the inverted syrup.
1915 A. G. Woodman Food Anal. vi. 246 The inverted solution, after cooling, is nearly neutralized with sodium hydroxide, care being taken to leave it faintly acid.
1946 S. Jordan & K. E. Langwill Confectionary Anal. & Composition xii. 40 The acidity of an inverted syrup should never fall below pH 4.5.
2012 A. Labropoulos & S. Anestis in T. Varzakas et al. Sweeteners vi. 160 Examples of products using inverted syrups include jams, granola bars, and candies.
7. Originally Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Designating sexual feelings, other psychological characteristics, or behaviour displayed by a person of one sex regarded as characteristic of the opposite sex; (of a person) displaying such instincts or behaviour; spec. homosexual. Now disused in Psychology (rare and somewhat dated in general use).See note at inversion n. 10.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual
inverted1870
Uranian1883
homosexual1892
homogenic1894
camp1910
homosex1913
queer1914
homoerotic1915
homosexualist1920
homo1923
faggoty1928
tapette1930
fag1932
gay1934
so1937
same-sex1938
faggy1949
ginger beer1959
that waya1960
that way inclineda1960
ginger1965
minty1965
pink1972
leather1990
1870 tr. C. Westphal in Detroit Rev. Med. & Pharmacy 5 28 (title) Inverted sexual-feeling [Ger. conträre Sexualempfindung]... A symptom of a neuropathic (psychopathic) state.
1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion 16 The painter Bazzi seems to have been radically inverted.
1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion 156 Social opinion is most amply adequate to deal with the manifestations of inverted sexuality.
1958 Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry 28 428 Inverted females would be expected to show..a relatively complete identification with the masculine role.
1998 E. Mordden Venice Adriana 277 I am not inverted! I am what you are—human!
2005 D. E. Hall in I. Morland & A. Willox Queer Theory 105 ‘Inverted’ individuals were (supposedly) recognizable because they always demonstrated the gender characteristics of the sex of the soul within them: gay men were..always effeminate and lesbians..always masculine.
8. Phonetics. Of a sound: articulated with the tongue curled up and back. Cf. retroflex adj. 2. Now largely disused.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [adjective] > lingual > articulation by
cacuminal1862
retracted1874
inverted1877
coronal1890
retroflex1915
domal1919
retroflexed1932
1877 H. Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 32 Inverted consonants allow of the distinctions of ‘inner’ and ‘outer’.
1902 E. W. Scripture Elements Exper. Phonetics xxi. 297 The term ‘cacuminal’ (or ‘cerebral’, or ‘inverted’) is applied to a frontal articulation, in which the point of the tongue is turned up and back.
1934 Year's Work in Eng. Stud. 1932 53 The consonant apparently became a cerebral (inverted) r before its disappearance.
1970 F. D. M. Dow Outl. Mandarin Phonetics iv. 37 Retroflexed sounds (also called ‘cacuminal’, ‘cerebral’ or ‘inverted’ sound) are, of course, those produced with the tongue tip curled upwards towards the hard palate.
II. Turned upside down.
9. That is or has been turned or placed upside down, or turned over.
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the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective]
enversed?1440
inverse?1440
turned1513
overturned1561
inversed1592
inverted1598
topsy-turvy1618
downside up1683
headlong1713
upturned1816
Antipodean1853
upside down1866
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Inuerso, inuerted.
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 75 There be that ascribe an inuerted semicircle to this proportion.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 11 A fit Vessel for this purpose, will be an inverted Glass Syphon.
1737 Mem. Soc. Grub-St. II. 160 In Time's inverted glass slow falls the sand To working eyes.
1774 J. Cant in Adamson's Muses Threnodie (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xxiii Besides several inverted letters, the indulgent reader will be pleased to Correct the following Errata.
1806 Naval Chron. 15 106 They had no covering but an inverted boat.
1870 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light 22 Dove has applied the ‘reversion prism’ to render erect the inverted images of the astronomical telescope.
1913 Evening News (London) 17 Nov. 3/3 Mr. Bucks, the first British airman to fly upside down..intends to give exhibitions of inverted flight and looping the loop.
1953 Word for Word (Whitbread & Co.) 27/2 Optic, a measuring and dispensing device widely used for spirits. It is usually inserted into the neck of an inverted bottle.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Apr. d4/2 The line..rose, flattened out and then reversed so that it sloped downward, forming the shape of a dome or an inverted U.
III. Turned inside out.
10. Medicine and Surgery. Of a part of the body: turned inside out or outside in. Cf. inversion n. 20a.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [adjective] > other disorders
opplete1545
inverted1598
mercurial1786
lesioned1821
lesional1834
radicular1877
1598 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Praxis Med. Vniuersalis i. vi. 63 The inuerted eielids are in the day time often to be annointed with the iuice of Smallage.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 131 Ectropium, is when the inward part of the lower Ey-lid appeareth inverted.
1787 Med. Communications 2 241 Sometimes the inversion is so partial, that no part of the inverted uterus descends below it's mouth.
1864 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Sept. 359/1 A considerable amount of force was required to withdraw the inverted intestine.
1991 Dogs Today Mar. 44/2 In show Clumber Spaniels, questions about..hidden defects such as arthritic hips, back trouble and inverted eyelids, have not been addressed.
2008 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 14 May 7 There was a another delay because doctors were not told that she needed surgery on an inverted uterus.
B. n.† 1. Phonetics. A sound articulated with the tongue curled up and back; a retroflex sound. Cf. sense A. 8. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only in the work of Henry Sweet.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [noun] > lingual > by parts of tongue > articulation of
precession1843
inverted1879
fronting1886
retraction1890
retroflexion1932
dorsality1951
1879 H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1877–9 468 rn, etc. represent single inverteds.
1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) 26 The inverteds are..represented in Sanskrit under the name of cerebrals.
2. Philately. A postage stamp having all or part of its design printed upside down in error, often highly valued for its rarity; = invert n.1 4. Now somewhat rare.
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1899 Amer. Jrnl. Philately July 288 The watermark was inverted, but no particular value is to be added to the stamp on that account, for inverteds are common on the first issues of Chile.
1905 Gibbons Stamp Weekly 13 May 307/2 The new Gibbons [catalogue] lists a new inverted. For a long time the 1 mil, brown, has been the only value with inverted overprint; now the 5 mils has been added.
1920 Stamp Collectors' Fortn. 1 May 148/2 Such things as special printings and inverteds have appreciated enormously.
1994 D. Beasley The Jenny xii. 55 Why not ask Winslow about the 1869 inverteds that you saw in his shop?
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inverted engine n. any of various types of engine in which the usual positions of the crankshaft and the cylinders are inverted, esp. (in later use) in the engine of an aeroplane.
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1765 J. Watt Let. 16 Oct. in J. P. Muirhead Origin & Progress Mech. Inventions J. Watt (1854) I. 10 Inverted engine, with a new piston, the first not answering.
1933 Meccano Mag. Feb. 109/2 It is fitted with three de Havilland ‘Gipsy III’ inverted engines.
2005 J. Clark From Hayseed to Jet Pilot vii. 35 The base was equipped with Fairchild PT19's with a Ryan 6-cylinder air-cooled, inverted engine.
inverted loop n. (a) an aerobatic manoeuvre in which an aircraft flies in a vertical loop with the upper surface of its fuselage, wings, etc., on the outside of the curve, and the underside of the aircraft on the inside (cf. outside loop n. at outside n., adj., adv., and prep. Compounds); (b) a vertical loop in a rollercoaster in which the upper surface of the track faces into the curve, so that the car and its passengers are turned upside down at the top of the loop.
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1928 N.Y. Times 12 Feb. xx. 13/3 In the Spring of 1927, Lieutenant James Doolittle successfully completed an outside or inverted loop in an army Curtiss Hawk.
1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 397 In an inverted loop.., the centrifugal force acts in the opposite direction.
1978 Pacific Stars & Stripes 23 Dec. 12/2 (caption) Knotts Berry Farm's ‘Corkscrew’ was the first double inverted loop roller coaster in the country.
1992 Sidewinder..Whewwww!! in rec.roller-coaster (Usenet newsgroup) 27 July The ride has two inverted loops that turn you sideways while also turning you upside down.
1996 Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) 5 Dec. a5/5 [A pilot] was killed when he tried to perform an inverted loop and crashed.
2012 P. G. Kain Dramatic Pause 135 ‘What was the name of that coaster?’ ‘The Screaming Demon... It had three inverted loops and some serious gravity drops.’
inverted nipple n. a nipple that is retracted onto or beneath the surface of the breast, rather than projecting above it (potentially creating difficulty with breastfeeding, and sometimes serving as a sign of an underlying cancer).In quot. 1838, used with reference to such nipples in the marsupial pouch of the kangaroo.
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1838 Descr. Catal. Physiol. Ser. Compar. Anat. Mus. Royal Coll. Surgeons IV. 155 The orifices leading to the fossæ containing, at this early period, the inverted nipples, may be observed at the lower part of the pouch.
1866 Hahnemannian Monthly July 456 The general appearance of the patient,..the inverted nipples, and the leaden cast of the areola, decided, at once, in my mind that the tumor was of a cancerous nature.
1923 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 23 547/1 We have yet to find the inverted nipple which will not respond to this treatment.
1994 Today's Parent Great Expectations Dec. 15/3 If you have inverted nipples, you can wear special breast shells designed to draw them out.
2007 R. Cooper Thailand beyond Fringe xli. 131 Inverted nipples, like so many things Thai, are not really Thai at all, but a genetic import from China.
inverted pleat n. Dressmaking and Tailoring a pleat made by bringing together the edges of two folds in a piece of material and securing them at the top, so that the excess material is gathered behind the pleat, which appears from the front as an upside down V; a reversed box pleat (box pleat n. at box n.2 Compounds 6).
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1878 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 2 Mar. 141/1 The back of the train hangs in full folds from inverted pleats being in the seams some distance below the waist.
1915 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer Suppl. 1/2 The smart patch pockets are finished with stitched inverted pleats.
1968 Women's Wear Daily 21 May 36/3 (advt.) The long jacket easing out over a swingy skirt with inverted pleats.
2011 C. J. Fresia Threads Sewing Guide iv. 131 An inverted pleat consists of two knife pleats facing each other—it's the opposite of a box pleat.
inverted racism n. prejudice or antagonism directed towards a majority or (formerly) dominant ethnic group; perceived discrimination by or in favour of a minority or (formerly) oppressed ethnic group; = reverse racism n. at reverse adj. and adv. Compounds 2.In early use not as a fixed collocation.
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1942 L. Gershoy in Univ. Rev. (Univ. of Kansas City) 9 53/1 The comfortable assumption that all Germans are congenital criminals..finds no support in biology or anthropology... Racism in the manner of Goebbels is brutal and degrading nonsense. Inverted racism in this style is no improvement.
1965 El Dorado (Arkansas) Times 4 Dec. 6/6 The Pine Bluff Citizens Council has accused Gov. Orval E. Faubus of practicing inverted racism with his promise to place Negroes in more responsible jobs in state government.
2006 D. Gupta in R. Pinxten & E. Preckler Racism in Metropol. Areas 63 Black Panthers advocated inverted racism and it did not work. A small minority cannot overturn a majority.
inverted snob n. [after inverted snobbery n.] a person who shows inverted snobbery.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > types of snobbery
tapinophoby1773
inverted snobbery1909
wine-snobbery1966
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > worshipper of > inverted snob
inverted snob1909
downstart1960
the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > types of snobbery > type of snob
inverted snob1909
wine snob1951
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > worshipper of > inverted snob > attitudes of
inverted snobbism1909
1909 N. Nathan Econ. Heresies xix. 378 The inverted ‘snob’, the person who conceives that he can acquire personal distinction by ‘fearless’ repudiation of snobbery, and truculent antagonism to aristocracy.
1955 A. Koestler Trail of Dinosaur ii. 87 Only an inverted snob will pretend..that ‘the aristocracy’..is devoid of value.
1966 Guardian 14 May 7/6 But, gosh, don't be an inverted snob! Subculture is fun!
2004 Week 25 Sept. 35/2 Too much ground has been given to the class warriors and inverted snobs within the party who love a bit of toff-bashing even if it means riding roughshod over civil liberties.
inverted snobbery n. an attitude of exaggerated contempt or dislike for wealth, achievement, high social status, refined taste, typically combined with esteem for ‘ordinary people’, popular taste or culture, etc.; behaviour associated with such an attitude.
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1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 176 His book..was a capital instance of the Penny Messalina school of literature; and there arose from it..a rank atmosphere of..sickening, inverted snobbery.
1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. xxxviii. 159 It was that eternal, inverted snobbery of his, that hatred of anyone born with the things he had never achieved.
1962 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 10 Sept. 12/5 I have no inverted snobbery against men of inherited wealth.
1971 Lancet 23 Apr. 918/2 The curious inverted snobbery of the use of ‘Mr.’ by surgeons..is well worth the attention of a sociologist.
2009 S. Reynolds Bring Noise 298 [A] vein of inverted snobbery that runs through British rock culture, one symptom of which is an abiding discomfort with the notion of ‘art rock’ itself.
inverted snobbism n. = inverted snobbery n.
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1897 Spectator 4 Sept. 317/1 He is evidently very proud of his ability to abuse not only a Duke, but a Duke who is a cousin. One really thought that this kind of inverted snobbism had died out, but apparently it has not.
1939 A. Thirkell Before Lunch vi. 160 The inverted snobbism that at once overcame her against her will.
1972 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 26 Feb. 5/7 To confine all of our productions to the small Public theatre regardless of their economic viability on Broadway would be inverted snobbism.
1997 Financial Times 29 Nov. (FT Weekend section) p. xix/7 Inverted snobbism runs rife. Just as mockney..and regional accents are now deemed more seemly than Oxbridge, so basic mash and chips are replacing purée and frites.
inverted spelling n. an unetymological spelling based on the spelling of a similar sounding word or phoneme, esp. one in which an unetymological element is inserted in a word on the basis of analogy with another word where the element in question is etymologically justified, but is no longer pronounced, e.g. the modern spelling of limb (Old English lim) with a b, by analogy with lamb (Old English lamb); = inverse spelling n. at inverse adj. and n. Compounds.
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inverted spelling1891
inverse spelling1902
1891 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 12 223 We even find in the MSS inminsis for inmissis, an inverted spelling which throws light on the pronunciation of the seventh century.
1958 G. L. Brook Hist. Eng. Lang. v. 102 Another contributory cause of the confusion of Modern English spelling is to be found in what are called inverted spellings.
1970 B. M. H. Strang Hist. Eng. ii. v. 291 Inverted spellings, e.g. y for e in districts suspected to be y-less, are as revealing as direct e for y spellings.
2008 Rev. Eng. Stud. 59 56 The consistency with which the stressed vowel is spelled <e> is noteworthy, and it is possible that the form is influenced by OFr ferme... Fyrm is presumably an inverted spelling.
inverted sugar n. [after French sucre interverti (see the main etymology)] a mixture of glucose and fructose obtained by the hydrolysis of sucrose, used esp. in food processing and brewing; = invert sugar n. at invert adj. Compounds.
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inverted sugar1861
invert sugar1864
1845 Let. from Secretary of Treasury Rep. Chem. Anal. Sugars 28 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (28th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 165) IX Soubeiran has shown that inverted cane sugar rotates to the left only while in the liquid state.]
1861 Chem. News 13 Apr. 227/1 During the maturation of fruits this sugar undergoes a peculiar influence, and is gradually converted into inverted sugar.., identical in its qualities and rotatory power with that obtained by the action of acids or glucose ferment on cane sugar.
1915 H. C. Prinsen-Geerligs Pract. White Sugar Manuf. iv. 290 The new-formed inverted sugar attracts more moisture with the result that a syrupy solution of inverted sugar oozes out from the baskets.
2010 Guardian (Online ed.) (Nexis) 24 Sept. If too much inverted sugar is added it increases the tendency for the cinder toffee to become sticky.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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