Sample Sentences for
transpose
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transpose as in:  accidentally transpose numbers

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I transposed the last two digits of the phone number and called the wrong person.
transposed = switched the position of
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    She accidentally transposed the letters "i" and "e" in "believe."
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    To solve the puzzle, you need to transpose the letters in each word to form a meaningful phrase.
    transpose = switch the position of
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    I transpose numbers. One hundred and seventy-eight sappers to Padua becomes eight hundred and seventy-one.  (source)
    transpose = exchange the positions of two digits
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    I've been trying to teach myself, but it's difficult to transpose the music from bass to violin.  (source)
    transpose = change the setting of
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    And although what he's saying is damn bizarre, it's nevertheless coherent—no transposition of words, no substitution of inappropriate words.  (source)
    transposition = exchanging the positions of two words
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    As Jeremy and his sister and brothers hurried toward those transposed flags, we turned eastward toward our own school.  (source)
    transposed = switched
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    The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil war.†  (source)
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    Transpositions Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands; Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys; Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest.†  (source)
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    They were all very well, only that now and then she would oddly transpose some important words, and persist in the mistake, in spite of every effort to the contrary; and St. Clare, after all his promises of goodness, took a wicked pleasure in these mistakes, calling Topsy to him whenever he had a mind to amuse himself, and getting her to repeat the offending passages, in spite of Miss Ophelia's remonstrances.†  (source)
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    There's even a transposition—U.†  (source)
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    Frantic now, Ryan stabbed in the home number again. Transposed the last two numbers. Swore and started over.  (source)
    Transposed = exchanged the positions of two digits
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    In the bedroom the distant clamor of a populace rejoicing in its new-won freedom could be faintly heard, and the old fellow was as usual transposing peas from one pan to another.†  (source)
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    I was on the verge of discovering how to transpose the degrees and flip the sap back to strike the vellum and char it black, which would have turned the gracious sap from black to white and back to black.†  (source)
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transpose as in:  transpose the scene to...

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    In West Side Story, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was transposed to 1950s New York, with the feuding families replaced by rival street gangs.
    transposed = changed the setting
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    Then suddenly from one second to the next they were all transposed on Nelson, who came running into the house afraid for his life.  (source)
    transposed = moved to a different focus
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    A book, published every six months and distributed to every nuclear submarine, was filled with randomly generated transpositions for each letter of the signal.  (source)
    transpositions = movement to new positions
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    ...among the transfigured memories and the strangely transposed sensations that constituted the universe of her dream.  (source)
    transposed = altered
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    Mother remembered him transposing band music there, too;  (source)
    transposing = moving to a new setting
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    A good and virtuous nature may recoil In an imperial charge. But I shall crave your pardon. That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose.  (source)
    transpose = transform (alter in nature)
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    Many great minds in history had invented cryptologic solutions to the challenge of data protection: Julius Caesar devised a code-writing scheme called the Caesar Box; Mary, Queen of Scots created a transposition cipher and sent secret communiqués from prison; and the brilliant Arab scientist Abu Yusuf Ismail al-Kindi protected his secrets with an ingeniously conceived polyalphabetic substitution cipher.  (source)
    transposition = letters moved to new positions
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Germaine Tailleferre one can only repeat Dr Johnson's dictum concerning, a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music.  (source)
    transposed = changed to a new setting
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    He'd had six runaway best-sellers, four of which he'd transposed into screenplays for feature films.  (source)
    transposed = moved to another setting
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    An entire way of life, along with its economic underpinnings, has been transposed from the West Coast to the Rockies.  (source)
    transposed = moved to a new setting
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    And then, as she belonged to that witty 'Guermantes set'—in which there survived something of the alert mentality, stripped of all commonplace phrases and conventional sentiments, which dated from Merimee, and found its final expression in the plays of Meilhac and Halevy—she adapted its formula so as to suit even her social engagements, transposed it into the courtesy which was always struggling to be positive and precise, to approximate itself to the plain truth.†  (source)
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    The verses from the Gospel Seryozha knew fairly well, but at the moment when he was saying them he became so absorbed in watching the sharply protruding, bony knobbiness of his father's forehead, that he lost the thread, and he transposed the end of one verse and the beginning of another.†  (source)
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    You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.†  (source)
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