Difference between Inverted and Turned

What is the difference between Inverted and Turned?

Inverted as a verb is to turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction. while Turned as a verb is (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.

Inverted

Part of speech: verb

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

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order or direction; characterized by inversion; turned upside down; reversed; opposite; contrary. (of a chord) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher (of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar

Example sentence: Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

Turned

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.

Example sentence: Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.

We hope you now know whether to use Inverted or Turned in your sentence.

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