INVERTED VALUE
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2. To reverse the invert the subject and predicate of a sentence. See Synonyms at reverse.
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inverted - being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inve rt comma"; "an upside-down cake" turned
- moved around an axis or |
plant life,
flora,
plant
- (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
capsized,
overturned,
upset,
upside-down,
upturned.
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inverted snob persona
que desprecia las actitudes propias de la clase social a la que pertenece,
intentando identificarse con gente de una clase supuestamente inferior
Inverted snob (Ingles frase):
Person that depreciates the attitude proper of a social class to which it belongs, intending in getting the identity of a class supposedly inferior.
inverted snobbery …esnobismo,regresivo Anführungszeichen his
new job, inverted … just inverted… sogenannterneuerJob... umgekehrteVariante
Snobismus
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References in classic literature
Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the
crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted.
My God!
Henceforward he saw every appearance of virtue in the
youth through the magnifying end, and viewed all his faults with the glass inverted,
so that they became scarce perceptible.
"It seems a paradox, does it not," he went on,
"that the image formed on the Retina should be inverted?"
As the gong sounded, one of his seconds inverted a
water bottle on his head.
On top of all he placed the cooking pot, inverted,
and on top of this he laid one of the grinning skulls, upon which he fastened
the headdress of the dead Kulonga.
After their departure, taking place in inverted
order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was restored to
some hurried order by the pallid steward.
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.
The chimney-corner and once blazing hearth was now filled
with inverted beehives, in which the hens laid their eggs; while out of
doors the plots that each succeeding householder had carefully shaped with his
spade were torn by the cocks in wildest fashion.
After half an hour of skillful maneuvering, the
Englishman rose rapidly to a considerable altitude, and then, suddenly, without
warning, he looped and flew with the plane inverted for a few seconds.
The fresh chill air was faintly charged with the aroma of
pine balsam, and the sky above was crystal clear and blue -- a great inverted
cup of blessing.
So he stood, after regaining balance, and soberly
regarded, in a vain effort to understand, the mate with a bottle- bottom inverted
skyward, the mouth to his lips, the while his throat made gulping contractions
and noises.
By crossing and lashing the ends of two spars, and then
elevating them in the air like an inverted "V," I could get a
point above the deck to which to make fast my hoisting tackle.
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