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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 invert [′in‚vərt] (civil engineering) The floor or bottom of a conduit. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen When you invert your head, it looks like a thread of finest gossamer stretched across the valley, and gleaming against the distant pine woods, separating one stratum of the atmosphere from another. |
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