transpose

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But what I mean is that the more realistic you are the better; so long as you transpose, there must always be a transposition of tones Mildred admitted that she did not quite understand.

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  1. transitive verb To reverse or transfer the order or place of; interchange.
  2. transitive verb To put into a different place or order: transpose the words of a sentence. See Synonyms at reverse.
  3. transitive verb Mathematics To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other side, reversing its sign to maintain equality.

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  • The additions of subsequent editors are but of trifling value compared with the information collected by Mr. Croker, and one of his successors at least has not hesitated slightly to transpose or alter many of Mr. Croker's notes, and mark them as his own. —  A Publisher and His Friends
  • Change wav files with this software wavMasher is a program which can modify wav files to change the playing time of an audio clip, and transpose or scale the pitch of the clip. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • The good that it can do is mind-numbing -- such as (1) eventually cure any disease quickly, easily, and cheaply; (2) take our needed electrical energy directly from the vacuum cleanly, cheaply, and efficiently, and (3) transpose even desert sand into nourishing biological food to feed the present starving peoples in so many parts of the world, etc. —  ZPEnergy.com
  • Though she resembled her not a whit, Marjorie Main's Ma seemed to embody so many of the rough-and-tumble characteristics of my own grandmother that it was (and still is) easy for me to transpose the fictional woman with my memories of the real one and allow Ma Kettle to take on a kind of vitality that she might not necessarily have for anyone else. —  The House Next Door
  • Esposti was able to shop hundreds of logos in one sitting and even transpose his concepts onto the designs he viewed before buying. —  San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal
 

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  1. Middle English transposen, to transform, from Old French transposer, alteration (influenced by poser, to put, place) of Latin trānspōnere, to transfer : trāns-, trans- + pōnere, to place; see apo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English transposen, from Old French (and F.) transposer, transpose; cf. Spanish transponer, trasponer =Portuguese traspor =Italian trasponere, trasporre, from Latin transponere, set over, remove, from trans, over, + ponere, place: see ponent and pose.
  2. from transpose, v.
 

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