Word Meanings - INVERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on. (more info) 1. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. 2. A change
Additional info about word: INVERSION
A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on. (more info) 1. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. 2. A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. It is just the inversion of an act of Parliament; your lordship first signed it, and then it was passed among the Lords and Commons. Dryden.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INVERSION)
- Reverse
- Inversion
- derangement
- counterchange
- counterposition
- opposition
- contrariety
- contradiction
- alteration
- change
- mutation
- rear
- back
- evolution
- counterexhibition
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INVERSION)
Related words: (words related to INVERSION)
- REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - RANGEMENT
Arrangement. Waterland. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - CONTRARIETY
1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. 2. Something which is contrary to, - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - MUTATION
Change; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. Bacon. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - COUNTERCHANGED
Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info) - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - COUNTERCHANGE
1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson. - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - STANDPOINT
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - ALTERATION
1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive - EVOLUTIONIST
1. One skilled in evolutions. 2. one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. Darwin. - STANDPIPE
A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level - ENDUREMENT
Endurance. South. - CHANGEABLY
In a changeable manner. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - ORANGEADE
A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - CITRANGE
A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties. - TRANSMUTATIONIST
One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species. - BYSTANDER
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer. - INTERMUTATION
Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - REEXCHANGE
To exchange anew; to reverse . - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - GRANGER
1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.