name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈvɜːt/
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General-American: /iˈvɝt/
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General-American: /ə-/
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CMU ARPABET: IH0 V ER1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: often, transitive
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, physiology, sciences
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verb
Meaning 3
To move (someone or something) out of the way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 4
To turn upside down; to overturn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To disrupt; to overthrow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, ambitransitive, figuratively, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Chris Evert, Chrissie Evert, Christine Marie Evert
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tennis player
verb
Meaning 7
turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- evert the eyelid
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: turn, turn over
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch and North German Evert.
From Late Latin ēvertere (“to turn (an item of clothing) inside out”), Latin ēvertere, present active infinitive of ēvertō (“to turn upside down; to overturn; to reverse”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’)) + vertō (“to reverse; to revolve, turn; to turn around”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обръщам наопаки (obrǎštam naopaki) — to turn inside out
- Dutch: binnenstebuiten keren — to turn inside out
- Finnish: kääntää nurin — to turn inside out
- French: retourner — to turn inside out
- Icelandic: úthverfa — to turn inside out
- Icelandic: snúa innhverfunni út — to turn inside out
- Russian: вы́вернуть наизна́нку (vývernutʹ naiznánku) — to turn inside out
- Spanish: evertir — to turn inside out