invert

(Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
2. (transitive) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
3. (intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
4. To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
5. To turn (the foot) inwards.

Noun

1. An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
2. 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.
3. The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
4. An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
5. A skateboarding 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.
6. (obsolete) A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
7. (Internet) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.

Adj

Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

Noun

An invertebrate.

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ɪnˈvɜːt/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From Middle French invertir.

Sinónimos

reverse

turn upside down

overturn

turn over

turn

upset

turn inside out

turn back

homosexual

transpose

homo

turn upside-down

revolve

rotate

faggot

fagot

inverted arch

nancy boy

inversion

poof

tip over

fairy

🧚

topple

queen

👸

queer

raver

capsize

flip

turn round

fag

gay

nancy

revoke

send back

shuffle

sodomite

subvert

tip

transit

tumble

tumbling

turnabout

turn around

turning over

twist

upend

upturn

whirl

fall prostrate

change direction