invert

Meanings

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

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. A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
7. Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.

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

1. An invertebrate.

Etymology

From Middle French invertir.