invert

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈvɜːt/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To turn something upside down or change it to the opposite order.
02
verb
Extra detail
To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To undergo inversion, as sugar.
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

In context

to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
invert sugar
That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.

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That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Is...
Seldom, alas! the power of logic reigns / With much ſufficiency in royal brains. / Such reaſ'ning falls like an inverted cone, / Wanting its proper baſe to ſtand upon.
1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Table Talk”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 4
[H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […]
1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC
We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess.
1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, page 202

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From Middle French invertir.