transposed
tran spohzd
- v change the order or arrangement of
- v transfer from one place or period to another
- v cause to change places
- v transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
- v put (a piece of music) into another key
- v exchange positions without a change in value
- v change key
- s turned about in order or relation
transposed letters
- In Being John Malkovich, Kaufman transposed Lewis Carroll's rabbit hole into a chute that ends in the mind of a movie star.
- Chirac, declaring in Istanbul that "we are not servants" of America, has transposed this Gaullist policy to the struggle with radical Islam.
- It's as if the text of a real bill somehow got transposed with dialogue from a 1970s Dirty Harry paean to vigilantism.