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Invert vs Revoke - What's the difference?

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Invert is a related term of revoke.


In lang=en terms the difference between invert and revoke

is that invert is to turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction while revoke is to fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

As verbs the difference between invert and revoke

is that invert is to turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction while revoke is to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

As nouns the difference between invert and revoke

is that invert is (archaic) a homosexual man while revoke is the act of revoking in a game of cards.

As an adjective invert

is (chemistry) 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

    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

    revoke

    English

    Verb

  • To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
    • Your driver's license will be revoked .
  • To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
  • (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
  • * Spenser
    • The faint sprite he did revoke again, / To her frail mansion of morality.
  • (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
  • * Spenser
    • [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke .
  • (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
  • * South
    • A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memories to his conscience.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of revoking in a game of cards.
  • A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
  • A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.