different between invert vs overthrow

English

Pronunciation

• (verb):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?v??t/
  • (US) enPR: ?n-v?rt?, IPA^(key): /?n?v?t/
  • Rhymes: -??(r)t
• (noun):
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??nv??t/
  • (US) enPR: ?n?v?rt, IPA^(key): /??nv?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle French invertir

Verb

invert (third-person singular simple present inverts, present participle inverting, simple past and past participle 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.

   • 1782, William Cowper, Table Talk

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

Derived terms

• invert sugar
• inverted
• invertible

Related terms

• inversion

Translations

See also

• convert

Noun

invert (plural inverts)

1. (obsolete, psychology) A homosexual.
   • 1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, p. 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.
4. (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
5. (civil engineering) 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.

Translations

Adjective

invert (not comparable)

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

   invert sugar

Etymology 2

Noun

invert (plural inverts)

1. (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.

References

Anagrams

• Vinter, ventri-, virent

English

Pronunciation

• Verb senses:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v??????/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v????o?/
  • Rhymes: -??
• Noun senses:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?????/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v????o?/
• Hyphenation: over?throw

Etymology 1

From Middle English overthrowen, equivalent to over- +? throw. Compare Dutch overdraaien, German überdrehen, Old English oferweorpan (“to overthrow”).

For the noun sense, compare Middle English overthrow, overthrowe (“destruction, downfall”), from the verb.

Verb

overthrow (third-person singular simple present overthrows, present participle overthrowing, simple past overthrew, past participle overthrown)

1. (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
2. (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.

Derived terms

• overthrowable
• overthrowal
• overthrower

Translations

Noun

overthrow (plural overthrows)

1. A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
2. (archaic, rare) An act of throwing something to the ground; an overturning.

Hypernyms

• downfall

Coordinate terms

• collapse

Translations

Etymology 2

over- +? throw.

Verb

overthrow (third-person singular simple present overthrows, present participle overthrowing, simple past overthrew, past participle overthrown)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.

Translations

Noun

overthrow (plural overthrows)

1. (sports) A throw that goes too far.
   1. (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.

Translations

References

Further reading

• overthrow (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• throw over