invert
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ɪnˈvɜːt/
美 /ɪnˈvɜɹt/
英文释义
名词 n.
- An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- An invertebrate.
- 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 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.
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A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
— We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess.
- Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
动词 v.
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To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
— to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
- To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To undergo inversion, as sugar.
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To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
— [H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […]
- To turn (the foot) inwards.
形容词 adj.
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Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
— invert sugar
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle French invertir.
词源 2
Abbreviation of invertebrate.
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