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INVERTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
Synonyms:
anatropous; inverted
Classified under:
Domain category:
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed
Example:
an upside-down cake
Synonyms:
inverted; upside-down
Classified under:
Similar:
turned (moved around an axis or center)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb invert
Context examples:
In the other hand he held a bottle, which, from time to time, was inverted above his head to the accompaniment of gurgling noises.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
If I had not guessed this, on the way to the coffee-house, I could hardly have failed to know what was the matter when I followed him into an upstairs room, and found Miss Murdstone there, supported by a background of sideboard, on which were several inverted tumblers sustaining lemons, and two of those extraordinary boxes, all corners and flutings, for sticking knives and forks in, which, happily for mankind, are now obsolete.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
By crossing and lashing the ends of two spars, and then elevating them in the air like an inverted “V,” I could get a point above the deck to which to make fast my hoisting tackle.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
At such moments, starting from a windward roll, I would go flying through the air with dizzying swiftness, as though I clung to the end of a huge, inverted pendulum, the arc of which, between the greater rolls, must have been seventy feet or more.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
