单词 | anagram |
释义 | anagram From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Literatureanagraman‧a‧gram /ˈænəɡræm/ ●○○ noun [countable]ALa word or phrase that is made by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase ‘Silent’ is an anagram of ‘listen’.Examples from the Corpusanagram• Chambers suggested-Learlington, as an anagram of Nora Telling.• Florida is an anagram of Rid Of Al.• I decided on an anagram, Neela.• Indeed deliberately making all the tricky names into anagrams may be an easier way to work through the map for non-Gaelic speakers.• What chance have we lowland city folk got when we're confronted with maps covered in names that look like anagrams?• Apart from Holsten Pils, which is obviously, mind-shatteringly brilliant, I mean, anagrams, who'd have thought it?• Lousy crossword today, clever-clever, too many obvious anagrams.Origin anagram (1500-1600) French anagramme, from Greek anagrammatismos, from ana- ( → ANACHRONISM) + gramma “letter” |
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