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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•vert /ɪnˈvɜrt/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- to turn upside down.
- to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
- to turn inward or back upon itself;
to turn inside out.
See -vert-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•vert (v. in vûrt′;adj., n. in′vûrt),USA pronunciation v.t. - to turn upside down.
- to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
- to turn or change to the opposite or contrary, as in nature, bearing, or effect:to invert a process.
- to turn inward or back upon itself.
- to turn inside out.
- Chemistryto subject to inversion.
- Music and Danceto subject to musical inversion.
- Phoneticsto articulate as a retroflex vowel.
v.i. - Chemistryto become inverted.
adj. - Chemistrysubjected to inversion.
n. - a person or thing that is inverted.
- a homosexual.
- (in plumbing) that portion of the interior of a drain or sewer pipe where the liquid is deepest.
- an inverted arch or vault.
- Stamps[Philately.]a two-colored postage stamp with all or part of the central design printed upside down in relation to the inscription.
- Latin invertere to turn upside down or inside out, equivalent. to in- in-2 + vertere to turn; see verse
- 1525–35
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See reverse.
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