What part of speech is transpose?

Transpose can be categorized as a verb and a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. transpose is a verb, present, 1st person singular of transpose (infinitive).
  • 2. transpose is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. transpose is a noun, singular of transposes.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does transpose mean?

Definitions

Verb

transpose - change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"
transpose - put (a piece of music) into another key
transpose - transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
transpose - change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word"
transpose - exchange positions without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other"
transpose - cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size"
transpose - transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"

Noun

transpose - a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix

Examples of transpose

#   Sentence  
1. verb Can you transpose this fugue into G major?
2. verb Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word.
Sentence  
verb
Can you transpose this fugue into G major?
Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word.

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