invert

Meanings

Verb

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

Noun

• A homosexual.
• An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *
• 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.
• The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
• An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
• 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.
• An invertebrate.

Adjective

• Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

Origin

• From Middle French invertir