[
UK
/ˈænɐɡɹˌæm/
]
[ US /ˈænəˌɡɹæm/ ]
[ US /ˈænəˌɡɹæm/ ]
NOUN
- a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
VERB
- read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
How To Use anagram In A Sentence
- I've given you the password to my heart in all its anagrammatic permutations; but you seem to insist this is nothing but a start; so herewith, at last comes the story of my first puppy— Spill
- My anagram of your name is: we march in line. Times, Sunday Times
- Anyway, the point is (to get back to Scrabble) that the Scrabble-player plays anagrams with the letters in front of him or her - order out of chaos again, you see.
- For example, "The Dictionary of Anagrams by Samuel C. Hunter" can be anagrammatized into VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4
- He suggests that we might begin to imagine language itself as a kind of “multiverse” of such repertoires, each one occupying its own anagrammatic, cosmological world of expression, but completely isolated from some other proximate, alternate reality, whose alphabetic repertoire differs perhaps by only one letter — and thus, despite the efforts of great poets, a thought in one such universe may never find itself expressed in the letters of the other. Quick Review 06 (Even More Anagrams from Canada) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- This was proved in a study where people were given anagrams of words to solve.
- Ferguson the "linguistic tour de force" of the anagrams is a relational punning that underscores "the symbiosis of things and mind .... the inevitability of any human's seeing things in terms of relationship Notes on 'Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound'
- Johnson notes that this addition contains an anagram, extant in the Russian text, which would be missing in a literal translation.
- John J Reilly has wondered whether anagrams are as easy to work out in other languages as they are in English. Web Translations » Blog Archive » Are Chinese people forgetting how to write?
- Marie Touchet (mistress of Charles IX of France) was anagrammatized by Henry IV as "Je charme tout. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4