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Invert vs Extrovert - What's the difference?

invert | extrovert |

As nouns the difference between invert and extrovert

is that invert is (archaic) a homosexual man while extrovert is one who is outgoing, sociable and socially confident or concerned with outer affairs.

As adjectives the difference between invert and extrovert

is that invert is (chemistry) subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted while extrovert is outgoing; sociable; concerned with outer affairs.

As a verb invert

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

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

    Related terms

    * inversion

    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

    extrovert

    English

    Alternative forms

    * extravert (esp. in technical contexts)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • outgoing; sociable; concerned with outer affairs

    • Noun

    (Introversion and extroversion) (en noun)
  • One who is outgoing, sociable and socially confident or concerned with outer affairs.

    • Antonyms

    * introvert

    Related terms

    * extroversion

    See also

    * ambivert ----