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Invert vs Converter - What's the difference?

invert | converter |

As nouns the difference between invert and converter

is that invert is a homosexual man while converter is a person or thing that converts.

As a verb invert

is to turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

As an adjective invert

is subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

invert

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
  • * Shakespeare
  • That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.
  • * Cowper
  • Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, / Wanting its proper base to stand upon.
  • (music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
  • (chemistry) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
  • To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
  • (Knolles)

    Derived terms

    * invert sugar * inverted * invertible

    See also

    * convert

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A homosexual man.
  • (architecture) 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. invert (in'?vert) The floor or bottom of the internal cross section of a closed conduit, such as an aqueduct, tunnel, or drain - The term originally referred to the inverted arch used to form the bottom of a masonry?lined sewer or tunnel (Jackson, 1997) Wilson, W.E., Moore, J.E., (2003) Glossary of Hydrology, Berlin: Springer
  • (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
  • (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
  • invert sugar

    References

    English heteronyms

    converter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing that converts.
  • A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
  • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * convertor

    Anagrams

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