transpose

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To reverse or transfer the order or place of; interchange. synonym: reverse.
• intransitive verb Mathematics To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other side, reversing its sign to maintain equality.
• intransitive verb Music To write or perform (a composition) in a key other than the original or given key.
• intransitive verb To render into another language.
• intransitive verb To alter in form or nature; transform.
• intransitive verb Music To write or perform music in a different key.
• intransitive verb To admit of being transposed.
• noun A matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In electricity, to interchange as to position (the two parallel wires) of an electric circuit, specifically of a telephone circuit, so as to reduce inductive action from neighboring circuits. See transposition, 7.
• To remove to a different place; transfer; transport.
• To cause (two or, less frequently, more objects) to change places.
• In algebra, to bring, as any term of an equation, over from one side to the other side. See transposition, 2.
• In rhetoric, to change the usual order of (words).
• In music, to alter the tonality of (a piece or passage) from a given tonality, either in performance or in transcription. See transposition, 4.
• To transform.
• noun Transposition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position.
• transitive verb rare To change; to transform; to invert.
• transitive verb (Alg.) To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed.
• transitive verb (Gram.) To change the natural order of, as words.
• transitive verb (Mus.) To change the key of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
• verb transitive (music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key
• verb transitive (algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
• noun linear algebra The matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of another.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb transfer from one place or period to another
• verb change key
• verb change the order or arrangement of
• noun a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
• verb cause to change places
• verb put (a piece of music) into another key
• verb transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
• verb exchange positions without a change in value