transpose
verb (used with object)
to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange.
transposes
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present tense formof transpose (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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These are the techniques that Mr. Lerner transposes to his novels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Choreographer Matthew Bourne transposes Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to an asylum for young people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
The previously published “White Sands National Monument, New Mexico,” 1964, transposes Winogrand’s fascination with alienated and isolated Americans into a beautiful blue-and-white image.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Woolly Mammoth Theatre, too, has embarked on a restart with “Teenage Dick,” a reasonably diverting comedy that transposes “Richard III” to an American high school.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
It symbolizes the real and transposes it into the human rather than expresses it.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
