Invert vs. Pervert — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Invert and Pervert
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Definitions
Invert
To turn inside out or upside down
Invert an hourglass.
Pervert
Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something)
He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice
Invert
To reverse the position, order, or condition of
Invert the subject and predicate of a sentence.
Pervert
Lead (someone) away from what is considered natural or acceptable
Hector is a man who is simply perverted by his time
Invert
To subject to inversion.
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Pervert
A person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.
Invert
To be subjected to inversion.
Pervert
To cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; debase
"yet another example of justice being perverted in an attempt to secure more convictions" (Economist).
Invert
Something inverted.
Pervert
To corrupt (someone) morally.
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Invert
(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.
Pervert
To interpret incorrectly; misconstrue or distort
An analysis that perverts the meaning of the poem.
Invert
(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.
Pervert
A person whose sexual practices or interests are considered abnormal or deviant.
Invert
To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
Pervert
(dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.
Invert
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
Pervert
A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!
Invert
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
Pervert
(transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
Invert
(anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
Pervert
(transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?
Invert
A homosexual.
Pervert
To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
He has perverted his talents to dishonest gain.
Invert
(architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
Pervert
To misinterpret designedly.
Pervert one's words
Invert
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.
Pervert
(intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
Invert
(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
Pervert
To turnanother way; to divert.
Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.
Invert
(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
Pervert
To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.
He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.
Invert
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.
Pervert
To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
Invert
(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
Invert sugar
Pervert
One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; - opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
That notorious pervert, Henry of Navarre.
Invert
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.
That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,As if these organs had deceptious functions.
Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone,Wanting its proper base to stand upon.
Pervert
A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
Invert
To change the position of; - said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
Pervert
Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
Debauch the young people with wine and women
Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
Do school counselors subvert young children?
Corrupt the morals
Invert
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
Pervert
Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
Invert
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
Pervert
Change the inherent purpose or function of something;
Don't abuse the system
The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers
Invert
Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
Invert
An inverted arch.
Invert
Make an inversion (in a musical composition);
Here the theme is inverted
Invert
Turn inside out or upside down
