| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | in·vert |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n-vûrt |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: in·vert·ed, in·vert·ing, in·verts
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To turn inside out or upside down: invert an hourglass. 2. To reverse the position, order, or condition of: invert the subject and predicate of a sentence. 3. To subject to inversion. See synonyms at reverse. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To be subjected to inversion. | | NOUN: | (nvûrt )1. Something inverted. 2. Psychology a. One who takes on the gender role of the opposite sex. b. In the theory of Sigmund Freud, a homosexual person. No longer in scientific use. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin invertere : in-, in; see in–2 + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | in·verti·ble —ADJECTIVE
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