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Ev·ert  (vrt), Christine Marie Born 1954.
American tennis player who won women's singles titles at the U.S. Open (1975-1978, 1980, and 1982) and Wimbledon (1974, 1976, and 1981).

e·vert  (-vûrt)
tr.v. e·vert·ed, e·vert·ing, e·verts
To turn inside out or outward.

[Back-formation from Middle English everted, turned upside down, from Latin vertus, past participle of vertere, to overturn : -, ex-, ex- + vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.everting - the act of turning inside out
movement, motility, motion, move - a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"


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Eve Encounters The Internet Some animals have the (to us) unpleasant habit of everting their stomachs to digest their food Squeamish about the physical ungeneric man has no qualms about everting his brain Eve encounters the internet and finds Spewed metaphors, half-digested, Boy's Own Bluster A cyberpunk is but a punk, after all No more colonies No more Empire No more Cold War Limitless space left to conquer?
In addition, some of these traditional products are applied by everting the lid, moistening the product with saliva, and rubbing the compound directly onto the tarsus.
Further, although Brunt et al (1992) examined their subject's postural responses in the frontal plane, this motion had the effect of everting and loading one limb while inverting and unloading the contralateral limb.
 
 
 
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