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verb

Transpose v. t. (past & past part. transposed; pres. part. transposing)

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.

To change; to transform; to invert. (R.) "Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity."

(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.

(Gram.) To change the natural order of, as words.

(Mus.) To change the key of.

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Etymology of 'Transpose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Transpose" Quotes from Famous Books

... and thus placed in the setting of their natural environment. If you think of some arrangement whereby they are transferred to fresh surroundings, while maintaining their mutual relations, or, in other words, if you can induce them to express themselves in an altogether different style and to transpose themselves into another key, you will have language itself playing a comedy—language itself made comic. There will be no need, moreover, actually to set before us both expressions of the same ideas, ...

— Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic • Henri Bergson

... the cause or the effect of the manner of it. I easily forget my misfortunes, but I cannot forget my faults, and still less my virtuous sentiments. The remembrance of these is too dear to me ever to suffer them to be effaced from my mind. I may omit facts, transpose events, and fall into some errors of dates; but I cannot be deceived in what I have felt, nor in that which from sentiment I have done; and to relate this is the chief end of my present work. The real ...

— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau

... have provided the favourites of Apollo with lodgings, come to me again, however late the hour may be. Sir Wolf Hartschwert must call early to-morrow morning. The nuncio brought some new songs from Rome. The music is too high for my voice, and the knight understands how to transpose the notes for me better than even the leader ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... following rule for the conversion of propositions in which the whole relation explicitly stated is taken as the copula: Transpose the terms, and for the given relation substitute ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... profound mystery in the number of 0's multiplied by seven and divided by nine. Also, if a devout brother of the Rosy Cross will pray fervently for sixty-three mornings with a lively faith, and then transpose certain letters and syllables according to prescription, in the second and fifth section they will certainly reveal into a full receipt of the opus magnum. Lastly, whoever will be at the pains to calculate the whole number of each letter in this treatise, ...

— A Tale of a Tub • Jonathan Swift

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