anagram

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I changed, by anagram, the name Rousseau into that of Vaussore, calling myself Monsieur Vaussore de Villeneuve.

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  1. noun A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
  2. noun A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.

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  • As Shpilkes points out, it's hard to know what the naming consultants at Volkswagen were thinking when they named their new models Touareg, Tiguan, and Routan.I can't help wondering if Touareg is some kind of anagram.
  • You make words by putting together letters from the board, the bag or opponents'easels and rearrange them, anagram-like.
  • The meaning of the anagram which the word [Greek: ICHTHYS] contains, was probably combined with a more ancient tradition on the place of fish in the Gospel repasts Their repasts were among the sweetest moments of the infant community. —  The Life of Jesus
  • When the anagram is unraveled, and the true name is written, the veil will split, the rift will open, the darkness will come. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • The famous anagram origin of ‘Ansible’ is not mentioned in its entry (it would have been nice to find if it is apocryphal) but there is pleasure to be had in tracing the shared usage of words, even when portmanteau neologisms are meant to be obvious narrative shortcuts. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#212
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  1. New Latin anagramma, from Greek anagrammatismos, from anagrammatizein, to rearrange letters in a word : ana-, from bottom to top; see ana- + gramma, grammat-, letter; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French anagramme, from New Latin anagramma, used, in imitation of programma, English program, etc., for anagrammatismus, from Greek ἀναγραμματισμός, an anagram, from ἀναγραμματίζειν, transpose the letters of a word so as to form another, from ἀνά, here used in a distributive sense, + γράμμα(τ-), a letter: see gram, grammar.
  2. from anagram, n.
 

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