The difference between Invert and Upset
When used as nouns, invert means a homosexual, whereas upset means disturbance or disruption.
When used as verbs, invert means to turn (something) upside down or inside out, whereas upset means to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
When used as adjectives, invert means subjected to the process of inversion, whereas upset means angry, distressed or unhappy.
check bellow for the other definitions of Invert and Upset
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Invert as a verb (transitive):
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
Examples:
"to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc."
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Invert as a verb (transitive, music):
To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
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Invert as a verb (chemistry, intransitive):
To undergo inversion, as sugar.
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Invert as a verb:
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knolles"
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Invert as a noun (obsolete, psychology):
A homosexual.
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Invert as a noun (architecture):
An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *
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Invert as a 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.
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Invert as a noun (civil engineering):
The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
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Invert as a noun (civil engineering):
An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
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Invert as a noun:
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.
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Invert as a noun (zoology, informal):
invertebrate
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Invert as an adjective (chemistry):
Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
Examples:
"invert sugar"
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Upset as an adjective (of a person):
Angry, distressed or unhappy.
Examples:
"He was upset when she refused his friendship."
"My children often get upset with their classmates."
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Upset as an adjective (of a [[stomach]] or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as '''stomach'''):
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
Examples:
"His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move."
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Upset as a noun (uncountable):
Disturbance or disruption.
Examples:
"My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset."
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Upset as a noun (countable, sports, politics):
An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
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Upset as a noun (automobile insurance):
An overturn.
Examples:
"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason."
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Upset as a noun:
An upset stomach.
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Upset as a noun (mathematics):
An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
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Upset as a verb (transitive):
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
Examples:
"I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know."
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Upset as a verb (transitive):
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
Examples:
"Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance."
"The fatty meat upset his stomach."
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Upset as a verb (transitive):
To tip or overturn (something).
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Upset as a verb (transitive):
To defeat unexpectedly.
Examples:
"Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election."
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Upset as a verb (intransitive):
To be upset or knocked over.
Examples:
"The carriage upset when the horse bolted."
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Upset as a verb (obsolete):
To set up; to put upright.
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Upset as a verb:
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
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Upset as a verb:
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.