It may be easily believed that neither Vincent of Beauvais, nor his amanuenses, were equal to this work of abridging and transposing their authors.
This kind of slang, formed by reversing and transposing the letters of a word, is not peculiar to the London costermongers.
At the London University they have a way of disguising English, described by Albert Smith as the Gower Street Dialect, which consists in transposing the initials of words, e.
Just as the sequence of the various parts of speech was made clear by transposing the parts, here the same result can be accomplished by transposing the sections of the printed slip.
He positively enjoys stretching them beyond their usual meaning, twisting them, composing, opposing, and transposing them in all sorts of possible ways.
It sounds an octave lower than the music written for it, being what is called a transposing instrument of sixteen-foot tone.
It sounds an octave higher than is indicated by the notes in its part, and so is what is called a transposing instrument of four-foot tone.
Thus, certain professions have a technical vocabulary: what a wealth of laughable results have been obtained by transposing the ideas of everyday life into this professional jargon!
The most obvious effects are obtained by merely transposing the one into the other, which thus provides us with two opposite currents of comic fancy.
Transposition diagram for three phase, three wire line, transposing at the vertices of an equilateral triangle.
This effect may be nullified by separating the lines and by transposing the wires of one of the lines so that the effect produced in one section is opposed by that in another.
The last stage of all in this work consists in transposing at sight from the printed page.
I believe in taking one selection of Bach and perfecting it--transposing it in all keys and polishing it to the highest point possible.
Yet Ibsen gives the screw a tighter wrench, for he conceived the idea of transposing all the horror of the antique drama to the canvas of contemporary middle-class life.
Besides transposingthe sentences, the author of Cod.
The most usual mode of rebutting a dilemma is by transposing and denying the consequents in the major-- If A is B, C is D; and if E is F, G is H.
As applied to disjunctive propositions conversion by contraposition consists simply in transposing the two alternatives.
By merely transposing the order of the steps in a six-step key it is possible to get 720 different combinations.
The effect of the commutator[17] is, in fact, equivalent to transposing the brushes of the collecting rings of the alternator every time the coil reaches a zero position.
In the third place, he must understand the complicated subject of transposing instruments, and must be able to detect a player's mistakes by reading the transposed part as readily as any other.
Conversion is Immediate Inference by transposing the terms of a given proposition without altering its quality.
The question oftransposing hinges on the process of hearing through the eye.
The six undated instruments with f´´´ in the treble are classified as transposing instruments because of their pitch C lengths and are accordingly believed to have been made before about 1635.
The correlation of compass and string length of the Italian instruments, the statements of Praetorius, and the similarity of the Italian keyboard ranges to those of the Ruckers transposing harpsichords have been considered.
Although no examples were found for inclusion in this study, it is probable that some ottavinas a fifth above the usual pitch--and therefore an octave higher than the transposing instruments in our listing--survive.
Possibly some of the nontransposing instruments were tuned to choir pitch and others to tertiam minorem, while the transposing instruments were set a fourth lower than choir pitch.
In the quotation previously given, Querinus van Blankenburg tells us that the Ruckers did not make transposing instruments later than the 1630's.
If the harpsichord was not intended to be tuned to this standard and used for this purpose, it must have been tuned to choir pitch and treated as a transposing instrument.
In an article titled "Transposing Keyboards on Extant Flemish Harpsichords," Sibyl Marcuse[5] discusses surviving examples that show how the second keyboard was arranged.
A plausible conclusion is that the Italian instruments extending to f´´´ were transposing instruments sounding a perfect fourth lower than the prevailing pitch standard.
The average of the pitch C lengths of the transposing instruments in the list is 12.
So much being admitted, the problem oftransposing a tune written in Gregorian notation without bars, time signature, marks of expression or other modern devices is obviously a difficult matter.
If, for instance, the poem shows accented followed by unaccented syllables or trochees as the prevalent foot, the first "mode" is indicated as providing the principle to be followed in transposing the Gregorian to modern notation.
The modern system of transposing scales, each major or minor scale containing the same succession of steps and half steps as each of its fellows, dates no further back than the first half of the seventeenth century.
Matthew follows Mark more closely than does Luke, the latter transposingone or two clauses.
This last item is not so important in Matthew, on account of his habit of transposing his Q material; yet within limits it is a valuable criterion.
Fill the first blank with a certain word, and then, by transposing the final letter to the place of the initial, form a word to fill the second blank.
Find a word to fill the single blank, and divide it into smaller words (without transposing any letters) to fill the other blanks.
At the London University they have a way of disguising English, described by Albert Smith as the Gower-street Dialect, which consists in transposing the initials of words, e.
Another Cant has recently been attempted by transposing the initial letters of words, so that a mutton chop becomes a cutton mop, a pint of stout a stint of pout; but it is satisfactory to know that it has gained no ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transposing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
