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invert

1. Psychiatry
a. a person who adopts the role of the opposite sex
b. another word for homosexual
2. Architect
a. the lower inner surface of a drain, sewer, etc.
b. an arch that is concave upwards, esp one used in foundations
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invert

[′in‚vərt]
(civil engineering)
The floor or bottom of a conduit.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

invert

invert
In plumbing, the lowest point or the lowest inside surface of a channel, conduit, drain, pipe, or sewer pipe.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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If it were true that removing the inverted commas around the word 'schizophrenia' would have made the report more accessible on internet searches, what people would then find would be misleading by the authors' own admission, giving the impression that fake illness is genuine illness like heart disease.
These words under inverted commas were denied by Islamabad, prompting the US State Department to send a transcript to 'satisfy' the objectors.
Inverted commas denote that "new" is in effect archaic if associated with apartheid South Africa.
Twenty-eight minutes into the contest - although that word should probably come in inverted commas - a cross from right-back Leandro dropped behind Zico, but he expertly adjusted his body position and met the ball sweetly, volleying past goalkeeper Frank van Hattum, who could only fall to the ground helplessly.
When she was able to dry her eyes and re-discover her voice, she said, "There's been an 'incident'." She even did the 'inverted commas' thing with her fingers.
BM And you think that using inverted commas is some sort of code?
It is very difficult to find out means to avoid plagiarism detection software, but scholars try to avoid plagiarism check by using some tactics like rephrasing, using synonyms and inverted commas.
A word of warning here: watching Louis Walsh on X Factor while gorging on chilli-sauce coated donner "meat" (the inverted commas are entirely appropriate) is likely to induce feelings of severe nausea.
Like One Direction, Taylor Swift and virtually every big pop act, The Hunna have a name for their fans: The H-Squad - although it is perhaps curious to single out the people who have been there from the beginning as the band only 'launched' six months ago, according to their press release, the inverted commas making the band sound more like a fizzy drink than a band.
I put cooking demonstration in inverted commas because a demonstration implies that we might do this ourselves at some point, but we just sat with our mouths open as he put together a squid pasta: i.e., a pasta made from squid, not a pasta with squid; Brittany lobster with buttermilk; and an incredibly complicated dessert with sheep curd, draped with milk skin (milk has skin?) and sprinkled with a crumble made from mushrooms and rice.
Gayle's use of inverted commas around 'Blush' in his announcement post led many to think the name was a hoax.
The authority said that the way the term world class was presented, with capital letters and inverted commas, alongside references to academic qualifi-cations suggested that they were using the term objectively and not aspirationally.
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