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• After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.From the entry hourglass
• His dislike of the residents of the wealthier neighbourhood was simply inverted snobbery.From the entry inverted snobbery
• The lyrics in the song's bridge inverted its meaning.From the entry bridge
• It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.From the entry by
• (figuratively, by extension) Of a perspective, reversed or inverted.From the entry back to front
• An inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.From the entry tautochrone
• Master-slave flip-flops tend to be negative-edge-triggered; however, the clock input can be inverted in order to make the master-slave flip-flop be positive-edge-triggered.From the entry negative-edge-triggered
• Phil was slumped over the edge of the mattress, inverted, watching her dress.2024 September 12, HarryBlank, “Nothing Changes”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024. From the entry inverted
• It can invert entire worlds and yet appear as no more than morning mist.2016, Thomas Corfield, The Alchemists Of Vra, Panda Books Australia, →ISBN. From the entry pedantics
• To serve, invert the semifreddi onto a platter and remove the plastic wrap.2012, Matt Lewis, Renato Poliafito, Baked Elements: Our Ten Favorite Ingredients, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, →ISBN. From the entry semifreddo
• The invert child and her innocent child are together lost children, twinning each other despite their distinctions.2009, Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry twin
• Knowledge, unlike wisdom is a form of Creticism, an inverted Creticism.2009, Donald Phillip Verene, Speculative Philosophy, page 73. From the entry Creticism
• This subterranean temple was rather like an inverted skyscraper, an earthscraper, perhaps.2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45. From the entry earthscraper
• There are, however, occasional bouts of genuine hospitality, with no strings or inverted commas attached.2004, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Pete Grant, Blowing the Blues: Fifty Years Playing the British Blues, page 122. From the entry facility trip
• Also since the circle of inversion cuts both excircles orthogonally, each excircle inverts into itself.1979, Dan Pedoe, Circles: A Mathematical View, published 1995, page 10. From the entry excircle
• The economic situation of the Jewish people in the diaspora is an inverted pyramid.1955, Dov Ber Borochov, To the Question of Zion and Territory, pages 41-42. From the entry luftgeschaeft
• It is surmounted by a bas-relief of a winged boy holding an inverted torch.1938, “1788: Piety Weeping at the Tomb of Benevolence, a Model of a Monument to be Erected in Whitechapel Church, to the Memory of Dr…. From the entry putto
• No. 16 has Er (二, two) with the characters Chung Shan inverted.1912, Robert Coventry Forsyth, editor, Shantung the Sacred Province of China, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC…. From the entry Chungshan
• For years, he has inverted the politician’s playbook by saying the quiet part out loud and flaunting misconduct in public.2025 September 9, David Smith, “The president doth protest too much: Trump’s denial on Epstein is backfiring”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry say the quiet part out loud
• There are a few ways of doing it, but the idea is to create a sort of inverted mute.2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer. From the entry soft-block
• A decade later, both Heinz and Hunt's introduced a new inverted, squeezable ketchup bottle that rested on its flip-bottom cap.2013, Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child. From the entry squeezable
• When the bucket is full, its contents are tipped by lifting and inverting the bucket over a waiting dump truck.2003, “Earthmoving Machinery”, in Wendy Horobin, editor, How It Works: Science and Technology, 3rd edition, volume 5, Tarrytown, N.Y.…. From the entry dragline excavator
• Yet to suggest itself as a rational method of communication, of infuriating readers into buying the magazine, was strange inverted Timestyle.1998 March 9, “75 Years Of Miscellany”, in Time, retrieved 30 Dec 2007. From the entry Timese
• An inverted 'Tree'; ajouré-work with detail in low relief.1967, Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, Georgina Herrmann, Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963), page 37. From the entry ajouré
• In a peculiarly inverted manner he is among the believers in progress—the goal being the undoing of the things done.1949 December, Helmut Kuhn, “[Review of Karl Löwith, Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History]”, in…. From the entry eschaton
• Scorpion contests within the confines of an inverted finger bowl.1948, Country Life, volume 104, page 488. From the entry jerrymunglum
• The 2d Quarter, Field Sapphire with an inverted Chief, amethyst.1906 (printed), The Beetham Repository, 1770 (eds. William Hutton, John Rawlinson Ford), page 115. From the entry amethyst
• The antecedent of this argument is Gorgias' treatment of language in his On non-being, but inverted and used as an instrument to restore adequationism.2022, Enrico Volpe, Le vie dell'essere: Studi sulla ricezione antica di Parmenide, page 146. From the entry adequationism
• He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at…. From the entry antifeminist
• These added sugars assume various names on food labels: sucrose, invert sugar, corn sugar, corn syrups and solids, high-fructose corn syrup, and honey.2010, Understanding Nutrition. From the entry corn sugar
• The inverted Y field has traditionally been used to treat the infradiaphragmatic lymph node regions including the paraaortic nodes, spleen, pelvic nodes and inguinofemoral nodes.2010, Lena Specht, Joachim Yahalom, Radiotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry infradiaphragmatic
• Turn out the buchteln onto a wire rack, place another rack on top of them, and carefully invert together so they are right side up.2004 November 30, Wolfgang Puck, “Filled doughnuts offer great Hanukkah treat”, in Globe Gazette, Mason City, Ia., →ISSN, page C2, column 3. From the entry buchteln
• The first time I tried the test machine that I got, I borked the configuration pretty badly (I.e., I inverted the interfaces among other things).2001–2006, Oskar Andreasson, “Commercial Products Based on Linux, iptables and netfilter”, in Iptables Tutorial 1.2.2, [s.l.]: Oskar…. From the entry bork
• What one hates in whites — love of brown sugar — one must also hate when it turns up, inverted, in black.1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 272. From the entry bigotry
• He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command. From the entry skep
• Adherence to canon is crucial for non-AU (alternate universe) fictions, but Emison shippers invert canonical events to draw attention to the textual margins wherein Emison arguably exists.2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty…. From the entry Emison
• So this mockery inverts the colonizing mission of civilizing the childlike natives on its head and also 'desecrates the "purity" of cricket roots' asserted by the British.2013, Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakrabarti, Kingshuk Chatterjee, The Politics of Sport in South Asia, Routledge, page 156. From the entry gilli-danda
• Sansen-tsuki is thrown from the full-frontal hachiji-dachi position, fists inverted and on the waist, knees bent and legs spread as if you were trying to strapple railroad tracks.2010, Davis Miller, The Tao of Bruce Lee: A Martial Arts Memoir. From the entry strapple

Meaning of invert

1. verb To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it.
2. verb To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
3. verb To undergo inversion, as sugar.

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Questions about invert in a sentence

How do you use invert in a sentence?

Invert is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.”

What is a short sentence with invert?

“It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.”

What does invert mean?

Invert means to turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it.