| 单词 | anagram |
| 释义 | anagram (once / 14105 pages) nv An anagram is a word or phrase that's formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. For example, the letters that make up “A decimal point” can be turned into the anagram “I’m a dot in place.” People mainly make anagrams just for fun, but sometimes they’re used as pseudonyms or codes. For example, the French writer Francois Rabelais published his controversial first book under Alcofribas Nasier, an anagram of his name. The most entertaining anagrams are the ones where the rearranged letters make some sort of comment on the original. “Dormitory” turns into the anagram “dirty room,” and “snooze alarms” can be rearranged into “Alas! No more Zs.” WORD FAMILYanagram: anagrammatic, anagrammatical, anagrammatise, anagrammatize, anagrammed, anagrams+/anagrammatic: anagrammatically/anagrammatise: anagrammatised/anagrammatize: anagrammatized, anagrammatizes, anagrammatizing USAGE EXAMPLESRepublican leaders are quick to note that, while Garland appears to be qualified, his name is an anagram for “Rancid Lark Germ.” Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) On top of all this, Bernard’s full name, Bernard Lowe, happens to be an anagram for “Arnold Weber.” Time(Nov 30, 2016) The Friedmans did, however, provide an enigmatic message about the manuscript in an article in Philogical Quarterly, “Acrostics, Anagrams, and Chaucer,” published in 1959. The New Yorker(Nov 30, 2016) 1n a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase Hypo|Hyper antigram an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase word a unit of language that native speakers can identify 2v read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning Syn|Hyper anagrammatise, anagrammatize read interpret something that is written or printed |
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