Reverted vs Inverted - What's the difference?
reverted | inverted |
(revert)
That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).
Bent back, reversed.
Directed backwards.
* 1795 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb’:
Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order or direction; characterized by inversion; turned upside down; reversed; opposite; contrary.
(music) (of a chord ) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher
(chemistry) (of sugar ) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar
(invert)
As verbs the difference between reverted and inverted
is that reverted is past tense of revert while inverted is past tense of invert.As adjectives the difference between reverted and inverted
is that reverted is that has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.) while inverted is changed to a contrary or counterchanged order or direction; characterized by inversion; turned upside down; reversed; opposite; contrary.reverted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- With many a pause and oft reverted eye / I climb the Coomb's ascent [...].
