Terms vs Invertest - What's the difference?
terms | invertest |
(archaic) (invert)
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
* Shakespeare
* Cowper
(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.
(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.
(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
English heteronyms
As a noun terms
is .As a verb invertest is
(archaic) (invert).invertest
English
Verb
(head)invert
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Verb
(en verb)- to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
- That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.
- Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, / Wanting its proper base to stand upon.
- (Knolles)
Derived terms
* invert sugar * inverted * invertibleSee also
* convertNoun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- invert sugar