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subversive
English
Etymology
See subvert and -ive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?b?v??s?v/
- Rhymes: -??s?v
- Hyphenation: sub?ver?sive
Adjective
subversive (comparative more subversive, superlative most subversive)
- Intending to subvert, overturn or undermine a government or authority.
Synonyms
- insurgent, seditious
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
subversive (plural subversives)
- A radical supporter of political or social revolution.
Synonyms
- revolutionist, revolutionary, subverter
Derived terms
- antisubversive
- countersubversive
- nonsubversive
Translations
French
Adjective
subversive
- feminine singular of subversif
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
subversive
- inflection of subversiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Swedish
Adjective
subversive
- absolute definite natural masculine form of subversiv.
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invert
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)
- (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.
- (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
Derived terms
- invert sugar
- inverted
- invertible
Related terms
- inversion
Translations
See also
- convert
Noun
invert (plural inverts)
- (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.
- 1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, p. 202:
- (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *
- 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.
- (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- 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)
- (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
- invert sugar
Etymology 2
Noun
invert (plural inverts)
- (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
References
Anagrams
- Vinter, ventri-, virent
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