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We rode an inverted loop roller coaster.inverted = turned upside down
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The movie inverts the usual hero-villain roles, making the audience question their assumptions.inverts = reverses expectations of
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She tried to invert the argument, claiming that the criticism was actually proof of success.invert = reverse meaning of
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She inverted the "M" to make a "W".inverted = turned upside down
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It showed Isla Nublar as an inverted teardrop, bulging at the north, tapering at the south. (source)inverted = upside down
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Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose. On the other hand, the effect may be inverted. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people. (source)inverted = the opposite
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Finally the staircase opened onto the roof, which was heavily slanted, an inverted V enclosed by stone parapets.† (source)inverted = turned in the opposite position -- such as upside down, inside out, or (of two things) in switched position
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He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it.† (source)
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Some prone are lying, others stand erect, This with the head, and that one with the soles; Another, bow-like, face to feet inverts.† (source)inverts = turns in the opposite position -- such as upside down, inside out, or (of two things) switches positions
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To share lodgings with a brilliant dinner-companion, or to see your favorite politician in the Ministry, may bring about changes quite as rapid: in these cases too we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.† (source)inverting = turning in the opposite position -- such as upside down, inside out, or (of two things) switching their position
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However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.† (source)
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It could have been any warm summer morning except for the fact that whenever Edgar closed his eyes a gloss raindrop hung in the darkness before him, the yard lights captured and inverted within.† (source)inverted = turned in the opposite position -- such as upside down, inside out, or (of two things) in switched position
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And when he died, whatever the circumstances, they would suddenly, all those elements that despised his unchecked power—they would invert their distrust and begin to float rumors that the Director himself was the victim of a wry homicide planned and carried out by unknown parties in the vast and layered webwork of the state.† (source)
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Then your brain inverts the image and you realize the white part makes an entirely different picture, even though nothing has changed.† (source)inverts = turns in the opposite position -- such as upside down, inside out, or (of two things) switches positions
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MEPHISTOPHELES [inverting the brush which he holds in his hand, and striking among the glasses and pots].† (source)inverting = turning in the opposite position -- such as upside down, inside out, or (of two things) switching their position
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Miss Templeman deposited herself on the sofa in her former flexuous position, and throwing her arm above her brow—somewhat in the pose of a well-known conception of Titian's—talked up at Elizabeth-Jane invertedly across her forehead and arm.† (source)
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