invert vs knockdown

invert

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. 

noun
  • 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 invertebrate. 

  • 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. 

knockdown

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

noun
  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

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