anagram
(noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
anagram, anagrammatize, anagrammatise
(verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
Source: WordNet® 3.1
anagram (plural anagrams)
(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
• alphagram
• palindrome
anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)
To form anagrams.
• argaman
Source: Wiktionary
An"a*gram, n. Etym: [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. Graphic.]
Definition: Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or 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.
An"a*gram, v. t.
Definition: To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
