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Transposed

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.]

  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.

  2. To change; to transform; to invert. [R.]

    Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.
    --Shak.

  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.

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

  5. (Mus.) To change the key of.

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transposed

vb. (en-past of: transpose)

WordNet
transposed

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

Usage examples of "transposed".

The slaves we questioned had been airlifted to North America, where there's another concentration camp, and from there transposed to this Esaron Sector time line where I found them.

They say that there were at least two to three thousand slaves in this North American concentration camp and that they are being transposed out in small batches and replaced by others airlifted in from India.

He wondered what had happened to the imbecile who had transposed those Kholghoor Sector slaves onto an exploited time line.

Hadron transposed to the Second Level, to study alleged proof of reincarnation which the Akor-Neb people were reported to possess.

The Paratime Police impounded the slaves for narco-hypnotic interrogation, and then transposed the lot of them to Police Terminal.

That would give this gang fourteen hours to hear the news, transmit it to their base, and get these three men hypno-conditioned, disguised, transposed to this Esaron Sector time line, and into Careba.

Ranthar Jard was saying, watching one of the view-screens, in which a film, taken from an airboat transposed to an adjoining Abzar sector, time line, was being shown.

There won't be a thing there that can't be knocked down and transposed out in a day or so.

The ship that had been transposed in in the big conveyer was falling, blown in half.

He would be drugged and transposed to the First Level, where he would receive hypnotic indoctrination and, while unconscious, have an operation performed on his ears which would enable him to hear sounds well above the normal audible range.

Tammand Drav got all his people who were in the temple at the time into the House of Yat-Zar and transposed them back to the First Level.

I have an idea that they only tried to blast that idol to create a diversion which would permit them to escape—if they could have got out of the palace, they'd have made their way, in disguise, to the nearest Mineral Products Syndicate conveyer and transposed out of here.

You transposed here from the maximum safe range, or perhaps a bit beyond it.

In that brief interval, X-ray lasers raved against deflector screens, and transposed antimatter warheads—it almost never worked any more, with routine sensor-confusion countermeasures preventing precise placement, but it was always worth a try—died in detonations whose energies strained the fabric of space itself, explosions actually visible in the main screen, like fireflies against the star-strewn blackness.

The powered-armor suits that had begun popping out of nothingness in Martian orbital space, transposed up from the surface, had too little mass to have been detected even had sensors been trained on that precise area of space at the time.