transposed letters.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : to transpose at sight.    From Dictionary.com. 

Or by a kind of transposed deathwish: to kill the beloved and so destroy the self.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satanic Verses]

This "transposed" aspect of Fantasy Novels is a sort of sub-text to The Lord Of The Rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping the unicorns at bay] Reference

Of those, a sample showed about 20% could be explained by data entry errors, such as transposed digits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Bad Seed] Reference

For a second, she saw Grant’s devious expression transposed over the reptile’s, and a sharp pain hit her between the brows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Magic] Reference

Democrats countered that eligible voters could be disqualified over minor discrepancies such as transposed numbers in an address.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane Tucker: Ohio GOP Still Chasing Undecideds; Dems Making Sure Supporters Pull The Lever] Reference

"I don't know how it got transposed to being a mobster.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Sopranos:' Making A Mob Hit] Reference

If the interrogative word is an adverb, the order is transposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

(I had for this question transposed the weights -- unseen by Lola.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference

Does either phrase need to be transposed for emphasis or for clearness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

But EAFE knocks your seeks off only when its gains are transposed into dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Investing: A New Slant] Reference

This is an album of boy-crazy diary scribbles transposed into pining punk rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Album review of 'Crazy for You' by Best Coast] Reference

Nor did he care; he wasn't ready to see his characters transposed into celluloid.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World Gone Blind] Reference

If, however, the Club and Spade holding be transposed, a Royal should be declared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auction of To-day] Reference

With the Spade and Club or Spade and Diamond suits transposed, it is a No-trumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auction of To-day] Reference

Unfortunately, a few times he has transposed the numbers and touted U.N. Resolution 1042.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Wing Story: More Than A War Of Words] Reference

In the event of the small Club being transposed to a Diamond, so that the hand contain four.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auction of To-day] Reference

Note: For Congregational singing it is suggested that the hymn be transposed a full tone lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference

Early on in his work, Bacon transposed Picasso's impossibly distorted surrealist forms directly.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

Mr. THOMAS NUZZO (Korean War Veteran): Try to imagine a city kid from Manhattan, young, transposed to Korea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korean War Vets Return To The Scene Of Battle] Reference

There are two instances where the elements must be transposed in order to make them fit into their proper group.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

Minor typographic errors (mismatched quotes, omitted or transposed characters, etc.) have been corrected without note.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

It's a collection of previously unpublished poems made up of spoonerisms, where the first parts of words are transposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shel Silverstein's 'Runny Babbit' Tales] Reference

If the interrogative word is object complement or attribute complement or a modifier of either, the order is transposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

The subject is usually omitted in the imperative sentence; but, when it is expressed, the sentence is in the transposed order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

Unpredictable hot-button issues like unemployment, outsourcing and immigration could easily be transposed onto the referendums.    From Wordnik.com.  [ALL EYES ON FRANCE] Reference

Someone must have transposed the digits of their Social Security number, a common error in this age of e-filing, he speculated.    From Wordnik.com.  [My experience with identity theft] Reference

Some serious researchers have suggested that the portrait may actually be the artist's portrait of himself, transposed as a female.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Z. Shore: Da Vinci Decoded?] Reference

On examining their details, we find names confounded, incidents transposed, and chronology by turns confused, extended or inverted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The arguments of every novel, transposed from the beginning, continue for three leaves to reverse of O o iiij, having for colophon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

+Words+ great number of in Eng. spoken words what transposed order of use of determining the class of usual order of written words what.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference