Dictionary Entry
invert
invert is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
- 2transitive verb
To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
- 3transitive verb
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- 4transitive verb
To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion., 10.
- 5intransitive verb
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
- 6adjective
Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
- 7noun
An inverted arch.
- 8verb
turn inside out or upside down
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- 9verb
reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
"when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"
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- 10verb
make an inversion (in a musical composition)
"here the theme is inverted"
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