Invert vs. Revert — What's the Difference?

To turn inside out or upside down

To go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief

To reverse the position, order, or condition of

To resume using something that has been disused

To subject to inversion.

(Law) To be returned to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.

To be subjected to inversion.

(Genetics) To undergo reversion.

Something inverted.

Chiefly South Asian To reply.

(Psychology) In early psychology, a person who displays behavior or attitudes considered typical of the opposite sex, including sexual attraction to members of one's own sex. No longer in scientific use.

To cause to go back to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief

(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

(Law) To return (an estate, for example) to the grantor or the grantor's heirs or successor.

To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.

One who, or that which, reverts.

To undergo inversion, as sugar.

(religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another

To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

A convert to Islam.

(anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.

(computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

A homosexual.

The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.

(architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).

To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.

(transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.

(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

To return; to come back.

A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.

(intransitive) To return to the possession of.

(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.

(transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

To change the position of; - said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

(intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

To undergo inversion, as sugar.

(intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

(intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.

An inverted arch.

To convert to Islam.

Make an inversion (in a musical composition);

To reply (to correspondence, for example).

Turn inside out or upside down

To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

To return; to come back.

To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

One who, or that which, reverts.

Go back to a previous state;

Undergo reversion, as in a mutation