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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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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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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 wordsstandard 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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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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Mother remembered him transposing band music there, too; he had sent off for the instruments, got together a band, and proceeded to teach them to play in concert, lined up on the courthouse lawn: he had a strong need of music.† (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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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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"The transposition," consulting a notebook, "is only on the Lincoln 4¢ Regular issue, 1954.† (source)
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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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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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They filled the Jewish youth's bed with lemon pie; they put out the gas all over the house every night by blowing into the jet in Amory's room, to the bewilderment of Mrs. Twelve and the local plumber; they set up the effects of the plebeian drunks—pictures, books, and furniture—in the bathroom, to the confusion of the pair, who hazily discovered the transposition on their return from a Trenton spree; they were disappointed beyond measure when the plebeian drunks decided to take it as a joke; they played red-dog and twenty-one and jackpot from dinner to dawn, and on the occasion of one man's birthday persuaded him to buy sufficient champagne for a hilarious celebration.† (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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transpose as in: transpose the scene to...
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She transposed the story from eighteenth century England to modern day India.transposed = changed the setting of
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She is transposing the music to a higher key for the soprano.transposing = moved to a different version
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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...among the transfigured memories and the strangely transposed sensations that constituted the universe of her dream. (source)transposed = altered
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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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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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