different between invert vs repeal

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

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler (“to call back, call in, call after, revoke”), from Latin repell? (“drive or thrust back”), from re- and pell? (“push or strike”). Doublet of repel.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???pi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Verb

repeal (third-person singular simple present repeals, present participle repealing, simple past and past participle repealed)

1. (transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     […] I here divorce myself

     Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,

     Until that act of parliament be repeal’d

     Whereby my son is disinherited.

   • 1776, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, p. 8,^[2]

     As manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them.

   • 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, London: J.S. Jordan, p. 15,^[3]

     It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that altho’ laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non-repealing passes for consent.

2. To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,^[4]

     There weepe, for till my Gaueston be repeald,

     Assure thy selfe thou comst not in my sight.

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 2,^[5]

     The banish’d Bolingbroke repeals himself,

     And with uplifted arms is safe arrived […]

3. To suppress; to repel.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 7, lines 59-60,^[6]

     Whence Adam soon repeal’d

     The doubts that in his heart arose.

Synonyms

• annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

Translations

Noun

repeal (plural repeals)

1. An act or instance of repealing.

Anagrams

• Lapeer, Leaper, leaper