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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
transpose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective turned about in order or relation
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Examples
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The daily Dagbladet had two days earlier carried a front page that screamed: Siv Jensen supports the bombing, with the title transposed on a picture of a wounded Palestinian child.
Latest Articles 2009
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Italians today use the more prosaic besciamella, which is the sound of the French word transposed into Italian with an extra la stuck on the end to give it a more homely ring.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Carrie becomes KateSarah Jessica Parker has seen off Nicole Kidman to land the big-screen role of Kate Reddy, heroine of Allison Pearson's 2002 novel I Don't Know How She Does It. SJ, as she always tells me to call her, will be playing Kate as an American because the action has been entirely transposed from the book's London setting to Manhattan.
Trailer Trash Jason Solomons 2010
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Thus the famous passage on the disavowal of the "negative" and the human "predilection for the affirmative" is also transposed from the end in the second version
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul.
Notes on 'How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision' 2006
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By still further curtailing the interval between the terms transposed, we may now obtain more and more specialised types of comic transpositions.
Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson 1900
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Later, a bog-standard gag about text-message jargon transposed to real life is made hilarious by the tantalising delicacy with which Merchant's doctor delivers bad news.
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Fivona; a name, from its length, deemed highly genteel; though scandal averred, that it was nothing more than her real name transposed; the appellation by which she had been formerly known, signifying a
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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During his research, Nyerges heard that his name got transposed from purchase agreements onto the prior foreclosure.
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During his research, Nyerges heard that his name got transposed from purchase agreements onto the prior foreclosure.
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