invert
反转,颠倒,倒置,倒转
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Definitions
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- : to turn upside down.
- : to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
- : to turn or change to the opposite or contrary, as in nature, bearing, or effect: to invert a process.
- : to turn inward or back upon itself.
- : to turn inside out.
- : Chemistry. to subject to inversion.
- : Music. to subject to musical inversion.
- : Phonetics. to articulate as a retroflex vowel.
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- : Chemistry. to become inverted.
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- : Chemistry. subjected to inversion.
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- : a person or thing that is inverted.
- : that portion of the interior of a drain or sewer pipe where the liquid is deepest.
- : an inverted arch or vault.
- : Philately. a two-colored postage stamp with all or part of the central design printed upside down in relation to the inscription.
- : Psychiatry. a gay person.a person who assumes and displays the normative perspective, manner, or behavior of a different sex.
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The 32-ounce bottle has an interior stainless-steel filter that extends from the lid to the bottom of the bottle, plus a removable lid, which turns into a pour-over filter when inverted.
The best leaf vacuum available generally provides the standard features of a leaf blower while offering the ability to invert airflow to collect leaves in an attached bag for storage and removal.
A decade later, PLA politics have almost completely inverted.
Many of the lids actually are just inverted bowls, which can be conveniently used for holding the pickles as you ladle them out.
Let the cake cool in the skillet for 15 minutes before inverting onto a serving platter.
Just take reality, invert it, and that's what Romney is likely to say.
In the end, the Toulouse killings never did invert head-to-head polling favoring François Hollande before the affair.
Invert bowl and handle and lay them upon a level block of charcoal, as shown at Figure 28.
But man can invert this relation, and thus fail in attaining his destination in two ways.
Then invert each jar to permit the food to cool and to test for leaks.
Invert the preparation and with the blade of the scalpel remove the slide from the agar block.
Invert the cover-slip with the block attached on to the hanging-drop slide, and seal the cover-slip firmly in place.