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語源 1

From Middle French invertir.

動詞

invert (三人称単数 現在形 inverts, 現在分詞 inverting, 過去形および過去分詞形 inverted)

1. (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

   to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.

   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.

   • 1782, William Cowper, “Table Talk”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 4:

     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.

2. (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
3. (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
4. To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
   • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     [H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […]

5. (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.

派生語

• invert sugar
• invertasome
• inverted
• invertible

関連する語

• inversion

参考

• convert

名詞

invert (複数形 inverts)

1. (obsolete, psychology) A homosexual, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
   • 1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, page 202:

     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.

2. (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
3. The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch. ^[1]
4. (civil 工学) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
5. (civil 工学) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
6. A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.

形容詞

invert (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

   invert sugar

名詞

invert (複数形 inverts)

1. (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.

参照

アナグラム

• Vinter, ventri-, virent