Anagram



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 变形词
• ［英］ n. 变形词 ( word made by rearranging the letters of another word )
• ［记］ ana ( 错误, 分开) +gram ( 写, 图) -> [容易]写错的 -> 变形了的; 例如: silver写成 sliver

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: probably from Middle French anagramme, from New Latin anagrammat-, anagramma, modification of Greek anagrammatismos, from anagrammatizein to transpose letters, from ana- + grammat-, gramma letter — more at gram
• Date: 1589
• 1. a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase
• 2. plural but singular in construction a game in which words are formed by rearranging the letters of other words or by arranging letters taken (as from a stock of cards or blocks) at random
• • anagrammatic also anagrammatical adjective
• • anagrammatically adverb

II. transitive verb (-grammed; -gramming)

• Date: 1630
• 1. anagrammatize
• 2. to rearrange (the letters of a text) in order to discover a hidden message

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