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inversion
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?v???n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?v????n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)??n
Noun
inversion (countable and uncountable, plural inversions)
- The action of inverting.
- Being in an inverted state; being upside down or in a reverse sequence.
- (music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
- (music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
- (music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
- (genetics) A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
- (meteorology) A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
- Synonym: temperature inversion
- (grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.
- Question formation involves the phenomenon commonly known as subject-auxiliary inversion, a change in word order in which the auxiliary moves in front of the subject.
(a) Here we shall describe this phenomenon in terms of movement of the element under INFL into COMP position.
(b) According to this analysis, what looks like an exchanging of positions between the subject and auxiliary (or INFL element, in GB terms) is actually the movement of the INFL element past the subject position into COMP.
(c) INFL-to-COMP movement seems to be triggered by the presence of the [+WH] feature in COMP.
- Question formation involves the phenomenon commonly known as subject-auxiliary inversion, a change in word order in which the auxiliary moves in front of the subject.
- (algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
- (psychology, obsolete) Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
- 1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, p. 202:
- We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion.
- 1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, p. 202:
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- twelve tone technique
- serialism
References
- (music) DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN, Ch. 6.
- (genetics) Lars Feuk, Andrew R. Carson and Stephen W. Scherer (February 2006). "Structural variation in the human genome," Nature, 7:85.
- (genetics) Freeman et al., "Copy number variation: New insights into genome diversity" Genome Res 2006; 16: 949-61. — "DNA copy number variation has long been associated with specific chromosomal rearrangements and genomic disorders, but its ubiquity in mammalian genomes was not fully realized until recently. Although our understanding of the extent of this variation is still developing, it seems likely that, at least in humans, copy number variants (CNVs) account for a substantial amount of genetic variation."
French
Noun
inversion f (plural inversions)
- inversion
- deviance (especially sexual)
Venetian
Etymology
Compare Italian inversione
Noun
inversion f (invariable)
- inversion (all senses)
- reversal, reversing
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conversation
English
Etymology
From Middle English conversacioun, from French conversation, from Latin convers?ti?nem, accusative singular of convers?ti? (“conversation”), from conversor (“abide, keep company with”).Morphologically converse +? -ation
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?n.v??se?.??n/, [?k???.v??se?.?n?]
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?n.v???se?.??n/, [?k???.v??se?.?n?]
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
conversation (countable and uncountable, plural conversations)
- Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: banter, chat, chinwag, dialogue, discussion, interlocution, powwow, table talk
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
- (computing, networking) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction. [from 20th c.]
- (obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others. [14th-18th c.]
- (archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life. [from 14th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 27:
- I have desired him to inquire after Lovelace's life and conversation in town.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 27:
- (obsolete) Sexual intercourse. [16th-19th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:
- Ariadne […] quitted her Lover Theseus, for the tumultuous Conversation of Bacchus.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
- Our travellers had happened to take up their residence at a house of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predicament, were accustomed to resort in their way to Bath. The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof. Indeed, so foul and contagious are all such proceedings, that they contaminate the very innocent scenes where they are committed, and give the name of a bad house, or of a house of ill repute, to all those where they are suffered to be carried on.
- (obsolete) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc. [16th–18th c.]
- Synonyms: understanding, familiarity
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- So grosse is our conuersation, and dull is our apprehension: while mortall Sense, in vs, ruleth the common wealth of our litle world.
Usage notes
- To make conversation means to start a conversation with someone with no other aim than to talk and break the silence.
- To have a conversation, and to hold a conversation, both mean to converse.
- See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
- conversational
- conversation piece
- make conversation
Related terms
- converse
- conversant
Translations
Verb
conversation (third-person singular simple present conversations, present participle conversationing, simple past and past participle conversationed)
- (nonstandard, transitive, intransitive) To engage in conversation (with).
- 1983, James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review
- Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...
- 1983, James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review
Anagrams
- conservation, nanovortices
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin convers?ti? (“conversation”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.v??.sa.sj??/
- Homophone: conversations
- Hyphenation: con?ver?sa?tion
Noun
conversation f (plural conversations)
- conversation
Synonyms
- bavardage
- causerie
- dialogue
- discussion
Hypernyms
- communication
Hyponyms
- aparté
- interview
Derived terms
- avoir de la conversation
- faire la conversation
- conversationnel
Further reading
- “conversation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- conservation
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