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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed;
- Example: "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"
- Example: "an upside-down cake"
[syn: inverted, upside-down]

2. (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk;
[syn: anatropous, inverted]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Invert \In*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Inverting.] [L. invertere, inversum; pref. in- in + vertere to turn. See Verse.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mus.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony. [1913 Webster] 3. To divert; to convert to a wrong use. [Obs.] --Knolles. [1913 Webster] 4. (Chem.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Inverted \In*vert"ed\, a. [1913 Webster] 1. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geol.) Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval. [1913 Webster] Inverted arch (Arch.), an arch placed with crown downward; -- much used in foundations. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

inverted adj 1: being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake" [syn: inverted, upside-down] 2: (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk [syn: anatropous, inverted] [ant: amphitropous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "inverted": arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backwards, capsized, chiastic, everted, gay, homoerotic, homophile, hyperbatic, inside out, introverted, invaginated, inversed, outside in, palindromic, queer, resupinate, retroverted, reversed, topsy-turvy, transposed, upside-down, wrong side out