dilute vs invert

dilute

noun
  • An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. 

verb
  • To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares. 

  • To become attenuated, thin, or weak. 

  • To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. 

  • To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. 

adj
  • Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual. 

  • Having a low concentration. 

  • Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted. 

invert

noun
  • An invertebrate. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • An inverted arch (as in a sewer). 

  • An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe. 

  • The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point. 

adj
  • Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted. 

verb
  • To divert; to convert to a wrong use. 

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

  • To turn (the foot) inwards. 

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

  • To undergo inversion, as sugar. 

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