Word Meanings - INVERSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual. (more info) 1. Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• 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,
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• INVERTASE
  An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• INVERTEBRATA
  A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
• INVERTIN
  An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• REVERSIS
  A certain game at cards.
• INVERTEDLY
  In an inverted order. Derham.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.