transposed

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transposed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Transpose \Trans*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transposed; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Transposing.] [F. transposer; pref. trans- (L.
     trans across) + poser to put. See Pose.]
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     1. To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the
        other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to
        transpose letters, words, or propositions.
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     2. To change; to transform; to invert. [R.]
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              Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
              Love can transpose to form and dignity. --Shak.
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     3. (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.
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     4. (Gram.) To change the natural order of, as words.
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     5. (Mus.) To change the key of.
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transposed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  transposed
      adj 1: turned about in order or relation; "transposed letters"
             [syn: converse, reversed, transposed]

transposed - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "transposed":
     arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backwards, capsized,
     changeable, chiastic, commutable, commutative, convertible, equal,
     equalizing, equivalent, even, everted, exchanged, give-and-take,
     hyperbatic, inside out, interchangeable, interchanged, introverted,
     invaginated, inversed, inverted, mutual, outside in, palindromic,
     permutable, reciprocal, reciprocating, reciprocative, resupinate,
     retaliatory, retroverted, returnable, reversed, standard, swapped,
     switched, topsy-turvy, traded, upside-down, wrong side out