单词 | inverted |
释义 | inverted (once / 2056 pages) adj WORD FAMILY inverted: invertedly+/inversion: inversions/invert: inversion, inverted, inverter, inverting, inverts/inverter: inverters USAGE EXAMPLESDifferent decorative motifs proceed down the tapered legs, which resemble inverted obelisks. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) Those “fundamental errors” led the appeals court to an “inverted and extraordinary outcome,” GM’s lawyers wrote in the Supreme Court petition. Wall Street Journal(Dec 13, 2016) Martin Amis’s short story Career Move imagines a world in which the status of screenwriters and poets is inverted. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) 1adj being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma Syn upside-down turned moved around an axis or center 2adj (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk Syn|Ant anatropous amphitropous (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk |
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