Crossword-Solution: INVERSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inversion | n. | The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. |
| Inversion | n. | A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. |
| Inversion | n. | A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on. |
| Inversion | n. | A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third. |
| Inversion | n. | A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse. |
| Inversion | n. | A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, "of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable," instead of, "impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices." |
| Inversion | n. | A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause. |
| Inversion | n. | Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc. |
| Inversion | n. | Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass. |
| Inversion | n. | Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa. |
| Inversion | n. | Said of double counterpoint, when an upper and a lower part change places. |
| Inversion | n. | The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed. |
| Inversion | n. | The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose). |
We have 15 clues for the answer “INVERSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "How beautiful is the moon" is an example | 1 answer |
| EVERSION (ant.) | 1 answer |
| MOVEMENT which turns sole of foot inwards | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE movement which turns sole of foot inwards | 1 answer |
| Pals' account? | 1 answer |
| act of inverting or state of being inverted | 1 answer |
| inverting | 1 answer |
| the act of turning inside out | 1 answer |
| turning upside down | 2 answers |
| turnabout | 3 answers |
| MUSCLE movement, type of | 9 answers |
| Antithesis | 58 answers |
| About-face | 71 answers |
| Reversal | 87 answers |
| Turn | 90 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with INVERSION (5)
The gaoler standing at his side, and the other gaolers moving about, who would have been well enough as to appearance in the ordinary exercise of their functions, looked so extravagantly coarse contrasted with sorrowing mothers and blooming daughters who were there--with the apparitions of the coquette, the young beauty, and the mature woman delicately bred--that the inversion of all experience and likelihood which the scene of shadows presented, was heightened to its utmost.
The changes which these colored rings undergo are remarkable; by a few minutes exposure to sunlight, an inversion of nearly all the colors takes place, the two first rings becoming a deep olive green; and a deep blue inclining to black.
Preposterous rises still higher, and supposes an absolute inversion in the order of things; or, in plain terms, a ½putting of the cart before the horse;¸ as, a preposterous suggestion, preposterous conduct, a preposterous regulation or law.
Don't bother with their requests for "conservation of bandwidth" because their idea of bandwidth is a sociological "inversion, diversion and perversion" of the term "bandwidth." They would have you believe that a dozen short message files sent through THEIR listservers are a "bandwidth- preserver" rather than one message containing what you had to say all at once.
Those touches of archaism that are so frequent with him, the slightly unusual phrasing, or unexpected inversion of the order of words, show a mind alert in its expression, and give the sting of novelty even to the commonplaces of narrative or conversation.
Quotes with INVERSION (3)
When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way- A perfectly vile and foul Inversion of all that's been. What the old ratbags mean Is I've never done what I don't.So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words Then parts out the rest of the day Between bathing and booze and birds Is far off as ever, but so Is that spectacled schoolteaching sod(Six kids, and the wife in pod, And he…
This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with their own race or tradition and who hope, by means of renunciation, to assure for themselves a future world where, to use a Nietzschean expression, the inversion of all values will occur.
(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ... project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete inversion.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1999–2006).