All 4 Uses of
invert
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates, six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups, a moustachecup, uninverted, and saucer of Crown Derby, four white goldrimmed eggcups, an open shammy purse displaying coins, mostly copper, and a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits.†
Chpt 17
- Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf mousewatching cat).†
Chpt 17
- The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on the two bookshelves opposite.†
Chpt 17
- What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of the inverted volumes?†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(invert) to turn something in the opposite position -- such as upside down, inside out, or (of two things) in switched position