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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.]
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.
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To change; to transform; to invert. [R.]
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.
--Shak. (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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vb. (present participle of transpose English)
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Usage examples of "transposing".
Zarabar, and transposing from there to Passenger Terminal Sixteen, and from there to the Dwarma Sector.
But clarinets also illustrate another advantage of families of transposing instruments.
Of course, a player who has only one clarinet, as many younger or less affluent players do, will sometimes have to contend not only with awkward fingerings, but simultaneously with mentally transposing every note of the part.
Playing such a part on a B-flat trumpet requires mentally transposing every note, and by a different interval for every key of transposition.
So, for example, it would not make any sense to specify that the canonical representative of a speech melody could be determined by transposing it into the key of C major.
A case could be made for the viola to be a transposing version of the violin, except that, in the absence of frets, the built-in bias toward a certain key is minimal, and the instrument can thus be written as it sounds.
I took up recorders, I just learned one set of fingerings and when I play one of the others, I just read it as an appropriately transposing instrument.
The transposing of Leone Leoni is just this, and the romanticism of it delighted Liszt.
For years, little Kraft carried with him, three and a half times around the globe, despite the vicissitudes of local politics, his transposing horn.
It was a common practice with the Talmudists to conceal secret meanings and sounds of words by transposing the letters.
Drkh are about halfway up the aisle, Waterhouse slams into that old chestnut, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, except that he's transposing it into C-sharp minor as he goes along, because (according to a very elegant calculation that just came into his head as he was running up the aisle of the church) it ought to sound good that way when played in Mr.
I stared at Gwynplain, transposing 39th and Norton glossies against his face.
Cursing, he trie d again, this time transposing two vowels and a glottal stop: the lock sprang open.
Finally, I have occasionally altered the original syntax, usually by transposing subordinate clauses so that the meaning is more readily grasped.