anagram

/an-uh-gram/US // ˈæn əˌgræm //UK // (ˈænəˌɡræm) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”
- : anagrams, a game in which the players build words by transposing and, often, adding letters.

v.有主动词 verb

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an·a·grammed, an·a·gram·ming.
- : to form into a secret message by rearranging them.
- : to rearrange so as to discover a secret message.

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Synonyms

It’s a super-fast and fun way to check your anagram to make sure you haven’t used a letter too many times, or not often enough.
In time she realized her odd plant belonged among the extreme parasites in the genus Thismia, described in 1844 and named as an anagram for English anatomist Thomas Smith.
Rahodeb is an anagram of “Deborah,” the name of Mackey’s longtime wife.
[From The Daily Beast's own Brian Ries] Hi Ron Paul your name is an anagram for "Our Plan."
And cruder devices certainly deepen the effect of a name; Caliban is a rough anagram of “cannibal,” and Cassio contains an “ass.”
Even the title of the film is an anagram of “Truths Denials.”
Colleville invented an anagram on Cochin's name; with his given names it made up "Cochenille."
Anagram′matism, the practice of making anagrams; Anagram′matist, a maker of anagrams.
In each pan place a group of articles or pictures which will represent in anagram the filling of a pie.
The master was Captain Roderick Ralestone, although he concealed his name in a sort of an anagram.
It happening that both had the same name, Catherine, they passed the whole afternoon in forming it into an anagram.