Upsidedown vs. Inverted — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Upsidedown and Inverted
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Definitions
Upsidedown
Alternative spelling of upside down
Inverted
To turn inside out or upside down
Invert an hourglass.
Inverted
To reverse the position, order, or condition of
Invert the subject and predicate of a sentence.
Inverted
To subject to inversion.
Inverted
To be subjected to inversion.
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Inverted
Something inverted.
Inverted
(Psychology) In early psychology, a person who displays behavior or attitudes considered typical of the opposite sex, including sexual attraction to members of one's own sex. No longer in scientific use.
Inverted
Having the order or direction changed; for example turned upside down, reversed or in any other way opposite or contrary.
Inverted
(dated) Homosexual.
Inverted
(music) (of a chord) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher.
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Inverted
(chemistry) (of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.
Inverted
Simple past tense and past participle of invert
Inverted
Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
Inverted
Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.
Inverted
Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed;
A quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma
An upside-down cake
Inverted
(of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk