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Example sentences for "transposition"

Lexicographically close words:
transports; transpose; transposed; transposes; transposing; transpositions; transshipment; transshipments; transshipped; transtulit
  1. Its transposition restores to both verses the two-claused structure which runs through the psalm, gets rid of the acrostical anomaly, and emphasises the subsequent reference to those who wait on Jehovah in ver.

  2. Binet[150] has established, in his excellent essays, this transposition of the senses in hysterical persons.

  3. The task he has set himself is the transposition of a pattern of Chinese ideas concerning government from the Chinese ideology to the Western-traditionalist ideology of the twentieth century.

  4. Hsue in this transposition of Confucius, but begs the reader to remember that this is one made for purposes of comparison only, and not intended as valid for all purposes.

  5. The misplacement of a stop, or the transposition of a letter, or the dropping out of one, will make sad havoc of the sense of a passage, as when we read of the immoral works of Milton.

  6. Of course a large number of misprints are far from amusing, while a sense of fun will sometimes be

    obtained by a trifling transposition of letters.


  7. I rather suppose to be a transposition of an Anglo-Saxon Ingils, for Ingisil, from the stem ing, p.

  8. As a case of transposition I may note Falstaff from, as supposed, the O.

  9. The conflict was now inevitable: for the shark, although apparently a little put about by the transposition that had taken place, had determined upon having a meal of human flesh.

  10. In the above examples the converse of E looks as if it had undergone no change but the mere transposition of the alternative.

  11. Such propositions admit of conversion by a mere transposition of their subject and predicate, even though they fall under the form of the A proposition, e.

  12. Conversion is an immediate inference grounded On the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition.

  13. Now for the last step in Dean Blakesley's process of emendation, the transposition of ver.

  14. Such transposition consists in drawing back a word which occurs further on, but is thus introduced into a new context, and gives a new sense.

  15. It will be seen therefore that some cases of transposition are of a kind which is without excuse and inadmissible.

  16. Most of the cases of Transposition are petty enough, whilst some, as the specimens already presented to the reader indicate, constitute blots not favourable to the general reputation of the copies on which they are found.

  17. Transposition may sometimes be as conveniently illustrated in English as in Greek.

  18. In almost every great class a few anomalous cases occur, where there has been an almost complete transposition of the characters proper to the two sexes; the females assuming characters which properly belong to the males.

  19. Of course, the transposition need not be begun until all the letters have been set apart in their proper groups.

  20. Follow the same process of grouping and transposition in forming each of the remaining words of the proverb.

  21. In almost every great class a few anomalous cases occur in which there has been an almost complete transposition of the characters proper to the two sexes; the females assuming characters which properly belong to the males.

  22. However much we alter the octave by transposition into other octaves, we never get anything but unison or octaves.

  23. But no transposition of the sixteen bars before the return of the main theme in the scherzo of Beethoven's Sonata in E[flat], Op.

  24. The harp is the instrument upon which transposition presents the least difficulty, for the fingering is the same for all keys.

  25. XVIII Without a transposition the conversation glided to the theme of women.

  26. And the transposition so painfully accomplished by the saints of all times, climes and creeds, has ever impressed mankind as a deed heroic.

  27. No self abnegation for him, no transposition to his cortical cells of his sexual longing.

  28. Further, the transposition of the Davidic psalms to the beginning of the book would bring the hymns of the guilds together.

  29. Abridgment and transposition have brought matters into disorder at some points; but 2 Sam.

  30. The Outtime Trading Corporation has transposition facilities at Ravvanan, on the Nile, which is spatially co-existent with the city of Ghamma on the Akor-Neb Sector, where Zortan Brend is.

  31. I neither think the transposition of one editor right, nor the interpretation of the other.

  32. The reading of the quarto was right, but in some other copy the harshness of the transposition was softened, and the passage stood thus: Since no man knows aught of what he leaves.

  33. Mr. Upton prefers, but it is only an errour by an accidental transposition of the types.

  34. I can assure you, and prove it by many examples, that it is quite possible, by means of rhythm and the transposition of these notes, to evolve millions of new and beautiful melodic combinations.

  35. The inference is that in such transposition of the normal functions of the brain-halves, the tempering and humanising influence of the Woman-half is counteracted.

  36. A transposition is supposed to be in these words:--he seated his father and mother after they had bowed down to him, and not before.

  37. It is concerned with the transposition and communication of emotion, no matter what the emotion may be, for to poetic method the emotional material is, strictly, indifferent.

  38. To be given all courtesies and co-operation within the Paratime Transposition Code and the Police Powers Code.

  39. The only reason, I imagine, which can be given for the transposition of letters spoken of by Mr. Williams (No.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transposition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.