Meaning

8 senses
  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 and snowboarding 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. (Internet)Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.

  7. (informal)An invertebrate.

  8. (obsolete)A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.

Examples

15 sentences
  1. It might help if you invert the colors.

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  2. Through the lens the image was inverted.

    ruИзображение было перевёрнуто через объектив.

    deDurch die Linse wurde das Bild invertiert.

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  3. The image projected onto the retina is inverted.

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  4. It might help if you invert the colours.

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  5. Alberto found a large inverted cross in that room.

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Origin

From Middle French invertir. Abbreviation of invertebrate.

From Middle French invertir.

Abbreviation of invertebrate.

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Forms

plural: inverts
Singularinvert
Pluralinverts

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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