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transpose as in:  accidentally transpose numbers

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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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transpose as in:  transpose the scene to...

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  • ...among the transfigured memories and the strangely transposed sensations that constituted the universe of her dream.   (source)
    transposed = altered
  • She is transposing the music to another key.
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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)
  • I've been trying to teach myself, but it's difficult to transpose the music from bass to violin.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • An entire way of life, along with its economic underpinnings, has been transposed from the West Coast to the Rockies.†   (source)
  • Ascension to a paradise that in one version was merely "a feeling," a sense of power, of unassailable superiority-sensations that in another version were transposed into "A red place.†   (source)
  • He'd had six runaway best-sellers, four of which he'd transposed into screenplays for feature films.†   (source)
  • Transposed the last two numbers.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • And although what he's saying is damn bizarre, it's nevertheless coherent—no transposition of words, no substitution of inappropriate words.†   (source)
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  • There's even a transposition—U.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I transpose numbers.†   (source)
  • The transposition.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Germaine Tailleferre one can only repeat Dr Johnson's dictum concerning, a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Presently he turned to me and said, just as one might speak of the weather, or any other common matter— "You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs—and bodies?"†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Well, I recall perfectly how little, in my now quite established connexion, the maximum of ease appealed to me, and how I seemed to get rid of it by an honest transposition of the weights in the two scales.†   (source)
  • You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • But he had only to forget the artificial train of reasoning, and to turn from life itself to what had satisfied him while thinking in accordance with the fixed definitions, and all this artificial edifice fell to pieces at once like a house of cards, and it became clear that the edifice had been built up out of those transposed words, apart from anything in life more important than reason.†   (source)
  • Every face that, with such agony, such blunders and corrections had grown up within him with its special character, every face that had given him such torments and such raptures, and all these faces so many times transposed for the sake of the harmony of the whole, all the shades of color and tones that he had attained with such labor—all of this together seemed to him now, looking at it with their eyes, the merest vulgarity, something that had been done a thousand times over.†   (source)
  • I stood out two or three weeks, was accordingly considered as an excommunicate, and bad so many little pieces of private mischief done me, by mixing my sorts, transposing my pages, breaking my matter, etc., etc., if I were ever so little out of the room, and all ascribed to the chappel ghost, which they said ever haunted those not regularly admitted, that, notwithstanding the master's protection, I found myself oblig'd to comply and pay the money, convinc'd of the folly of being on ill terms with those one is to live with continually.†   (source)
  • Yet more, he transposed the /e/ and the /r/ in all words ending in /re/, such as /theatre/, /lustre/, /centre/ and /calibre/.†   (source)
  • Miss Kennedy with manners transposed the teatray down to an upturned lithia crate, safe from eyes, low.†   (source)
  • No self-respecting English author would yield up the /-our/ ending for an instant, or write /check/ for /cheque/, or transpose the last letters in the /-re/ words.†   (source)
  • he had a delicious glorious voice Phoebe dearest goodbye sweetheart sweetheart he always sang it not like Bartell Darcy sweet tart goodbye of course he had the gift of the voice so there was no art in it all over you like a warm showerbath O Maritana wildwood flower we sang splendidly though it was a bit too high for my register even transposed and he was married at the time to May Goulding but then hed say or do something to knock the good out of it hes a widower now I wonder what sort is his son he says hes an author and going to be a university professor of Italian and Im to take lessons what is he driving at now showing him my photo its not good of me I ought to have got it taken i†   (source)
  • There ponder'd, felt I,
    If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
    If vermin so transposed, so used and bless'd may be,
    Then may I trust in you, your fortunes, days, my country;
    Who knows but these may be the lessons fit for you?†   (source)
  • chansonniers there will understand them,
    For I guess there is latent music yet in France, floods of it,
    O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be
    drowning all that would interrupt them,
    O I think the east wind brings a triumphal and free march,
    It reaches hither, it swells me to Joyful madness,
    I will run transpose it in words, to justify
    I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.†   (source)
  • Thus N, shall signify a plot; B, a regiment of horse; L, a fleet at sea; or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party.†   (source)
  • But I shall crave your pardon;
    That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose;
    Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell:
    Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
    Yet grace must still look so.†   (source)
  • Suppose an article had been introduced into the Constitution, empowering the United States to regulate the elections for the particular States, would any man have hesitated to condemn it, both as an unwarrantable transposition of power, and as a premeditated engine for the destruction of the State governments?†   (source)
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