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anagram 音标拼音: ['ænəgr ,æm] n. 由颠倒字母而成的字(片语) 由颠倒字母而成的字(片语) anagram n 1: a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase v 1: read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning [ synonym: { anagram}, { anagrammatize}, { anagrammatise}] Anagram \ An" a* gram\ ([ a^] n"[. a]* gr[ a^] m), n. [ F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. ' ana` back, again gra` fein to write. See { Graphic}.] Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change of one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy ( attorney- general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law. [ 1913 Webster]
Anagram \ An" a* gram\, v. t. To anagrammatize. [ 1913 Webster] Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. -- Warburton. [ 1913 Webster] Anagrammatic25 Moby Thesaurus words for " anagram": abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, calembour, charade, conundrum, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, rebus, riddle, spoonerism, wordplay
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