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verbɪnˈvəːtɪnˈvərt [with object]1Put upside down or in the opposite position, order, or arrangement. invert the mousse on to a serving plate Example sentencesExamples - Remove from the oven and invert the molds onto a sheet pan to cool.
- Before you invert the cake onto a serving plate simply place the pan on the stove on low heat for 30 seconds.
- Thinking of language as an instinct inverts the popular wisdom, especially as it has been passed down in the canon of the humanities and social sciences.
- The ocean is indeed a magical, mysterious place, a fluid-filled negative space where mountains lay upside down and inverted, and where myth and legend have been born and bred.
- We ‘control nature,’ but it continually subverts and even inverts our intentions.
- By building a construction yard within a completed building, the design inverts a logical order of events.
- Remove from the heat and invert the mold onto a cutting board.
- In his letter On Humanism, Heidegger charges Sartre with merely inverting the Platonic order of essence and existence;
- Remove the weight and invert the mold onto a serving dish.
- The roof is essentially inverted or turned upside down compared to the standard roofing.
- I did the ‘snowplow’ the whole way down the bunny slope (you know, when you invert your skis into an upside down v shape).
- Today, we invert the stability and order of our world into an unstable and dangerous mirror image.
- To serve, cut around each slice of bread and serve each piece upside down with pineapple and juices on top (or invert the whole pan onto a large platter and cut into squares).
- The postmodern movement would pick up that ideal by inverting traditional concepts of high and low art to see what new life they could squeeze out of these tired, old ideas - like soup cans!
- Using oven mitts, carefully invert the pie onto a large serving plate.
- Shakespeare suppresses matters irrelevant to his dramatic purpose, inverts the order of events, creates important roles for individuals of no historical importance, and telescopes lifetimes into single scenes.
- In this sense, I think my approach to course planning inverts the usual model.
- The therapist moves the cup over the area to be treated, removes the cotton ball and inverts the cup onto the body.
- Remove from the heat invert the pan onto a cutting board, and remove the pan.
- Cool the cake in the pan for 5 minutes; then invert it onto a rack to cool completely.
Synonyms turn upside down, upturn, upend, turn around, turn about, turn inside out, turn back to front, reverse, flip (over), transpose - 1.1Music Modify (a phrase) by reversing the direction of pitch changes.
Example sentencesExamples - In the Gigue, Bach used the sort of chiasmus device that is often found in his binary dances, by which he inverts the basic motive of the A section as the motive for the B section.
- Bach chorales are transposed according to strict mathematical procedures, folk tunes are inverted and piled on top of one another, and the clumsy sound of an orchestrion is produced by a small orchestra.
- After a spiky fugue the Passacaglia theme is also inverted.
- Here, Grechaninov inverts the middle movements order with the slow movement coming third and this Largo is extremely well constructed.
- 1.2Music Alter (an interval or triad) by changing the relative position of the notes in it.
Example sentencesExamples - These last two devices may be combined to form a mirror canon or canon in retrograde inversion, where the second voice has the melody backwards and with the intervals inverted.
- 1.3Mathematics Subject to inversion; transform into its inverse.
Example sentencesExamples - He gives the reader the same method of dividing fractions as taught in schools today, namely invert the divisor and multiply.
- Write down the whole part as the next component of the continued fraction and invert the part after the decimal point.
- In the proof below, we use the fact that e is the sum of the series of inverted factorials.
- If you simply invert the numerator fraction and multiply it by the denominator, then you get the wrong answer; it comes out upside-down.
- We inverted the algorithm to generate afterpulse-modified histograms from ideal histograms.
nounɪnˈvəːtɪnˈvərt 1An arch constructed in an upside-down position to provide lateral support, e.g. in a tunnel. Example sentencesExamples - Usually used with an open invert, the Dur-A-Span culvert can promote fish passage even during the construction period if footings are prepared outside of the wetted perimeter.
- Forest road builders are finding that open invert or 1/2-pipe solutions are very useful for remote crossings where high fisheries values are identified.
- Moreover, the permanent concrete invert was constructed close behind the second-stage bench excavation.
- 1.1 The concave lower surface of a sewer or drain.
2Psychology
dated A homosexual. 3Philately
A postage stamp printed with an error such that all or part of its design is upside down.
Derivatives nounɪnvəːtəˈbɪlɪti Two methods of studying the invertibility of operators belonging to the above-mentioned algebras are described. Example sentencesExamples - The technique consists of establishing an invertibility-based fault detectability condition for the diagnostic model.
adjectiveɪnˈvəːtɪb(ə)l Although an invertible drive is easier to implement, self-righting is preferred, because although you can still drive, your weapon usually becomes useless when you're inverted. Example sentencesExamples - But because cryptographic functions must be invertible, must be fast to compute, and should have small key size and memory requirements, linear functions are irresistible.
- The lift also has four interchangeable pallet and block fork options, including an invertible fork for setting concrete, steel, and other types of lintels.
- Alternatively, instead of using a paintbrush you could use a can of compressed air, which can be purchased at most electronics shops and automotive shops, buying a can that is invertible is a good idea.
- He spent about a year of rigorous self-study fooling around with canons, fugues, invertible counterpoint, and so on.
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'turn back to front'): from Latin invertere, literally 'turn inside out', from in- 'into' + vertere 'to turn'. nounˈɪnvəːtˈɪnvərt informal verbɪnˈvərtinˈvərt [with object]1Put upside down or in the opposite position, order, or arrangement. invert the mousse onto a serving plate Example sentencesExamples - In this sense, I think my approach to course planning inverts the usual model.
- Shakespeare suppresses matters irrelevant to his dramatic purpose, inverts the order of events, creates important roles for individuals of no historical importance, and telescopes lifetimes into single scenes.
- Before you invert the cake onto a serving plate simply place the pan on the stove on low heat for 30 seconds.
- We ‘control nature,’ but it continually subverts and even inverts our intentions.
- Remove from the heat and invert the mold onto a cutting board.
- The postmodern movement would pick up that ideal by inverting traditional concepts of high and low art to see what new life they could squeeze out of these tired, old ideas - like soup cans!
- Today, we invert the stability and order of our world into an unstable and dangerous mirror image.
- Cool the cake in the pan for 5 minutes; then invert it onto a rack to cool completely.
- Remove from the oven and invert the molds onto a sheet pan to cool.
- In his letter On Humanism, Heidegger charges Sartre with merely inverting the Platonic order of essence and existence;
- The ocean is indeed a magical, mysterious place, a fluid-filled negative space where mountains lay upside down and inverted, and where myth and legend have been born and bred.
- Using oven mitts, carefully invert the pie onto a large serving plate.
- By building a construction yard within a completed building, the design inverts a logical order of events.
- The roof is essentially inverted or turned upside down compared to the standard roofing.
- To serve, cut around each slice of bread and serve each piece upside down with pineapple and juices on top (or invert the whole pan onto a large platter and cut into squares).
- Remove from the heat invert the pan onto a cutting board, and remove the pan.
- Remove the weight and invert the mold onto a serving dish.
- The therapist moves the cup over the area to be treated, removes the cotton ball and inverts the cup onto the body.
- I did the ‘snowplow’ the whole way down the bunny slope (you know, when you invert your skis into an upside down v shape).
- Thinking of language as an instinct inverts the popular wisdom, especially as it has been passed down in the canon of the humanities and social sciences.
Synonyms turn upside down, upturn, upend, turn around, turn about, turn inside out, turn back to front, reverse, flip, flip over, transpose - 1.1Music Modify (a phrase) by reversing the direction of pitch changes.
Example sentencesExamples - In the Gigue, Bach used the sort of chiasmus device that is often found in his binary dances, by which he inverts the basic motive of the A section as the motive for the B section.
- After a spiky fugue the Passacaglia theme is also inverted.
- Bach chorales are transposed according to strict mathematical procedures, folk tunes are inverted and piled on top of one another, and the clumsy sound of an orchestrion is produced by a small orchestra.
- Here, Grechaninov inverts the middle movements order with the slow movement coming third and this Largo is extremely well constructed.
- 1.2Music Alter (an interval or triad) by changing the relative position of the notes in it.
Example sentencesExamples - These last two devices may be combined to form a mirror canon or canon in retrograde inversion, where the second voice has the melody backwards and with the intervals inverted.
- 1.3Mathematics Subject to inversion; transform into its inverse.
Example sentencesExamples - If you simply invert the numerator fraction and multiply it by the denominator, then you get the wrong answer; it comes out upside-down.
- Write down the whole part as the next component of the continued fraction and invert the part after the decimal point.
- He gives the reader the same method of dividing fractions as taught in schools today, namely invert the divisor and multiply.
- We inverted the algorithm to generate afterpulse-modified histograms from ideal histograms.
- In the proof below, we use the fact that e is the sum of the series of inverted factorials.
nounɪnˈvərtinˈvərt 1An arch constructed in an upside-down position to provide lateral support, e.g. in a tunnel. Example sentencesExamples - Forest road builders are finding that open invert or 1/2-pipe solutions are very useful for remote crossings where high fisheries values are identified.
- Moreover, the permanent concrete invert was constructed close behind the second-stage bench excavation.
- Usually used with an open invert, the Dur-A-Span culvert can promote fish passage even during the construction period if footings are prepared outside of the wetted perimeter.
- 1.1 The concave lower surface of a sewer or drain.
2Psychology
dated A person showing sexual inversion; a homosexual. 3Philately
A postage stamp printed with an error such that part of its design is upside down.
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘turn back to front’): from Latin invertere, literally ‘turn inside out’, from in- ‘into’ + vertere ‘to turn’. nounˈinvərtˈɪnvərt informal |