Crossword-Solution: METATHESIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metathesis | n. | Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager. |
| Metathesis | n. | A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body. |
| Metathesis | n. | The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “METATHESIS”
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| Transposition, as cruel for crulle, Falstaff for Fastolph, etc. | 1 answer |
| interchange of position | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AECMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with METATHESIS (5)
But she drops her voice somewhat to disguise her feats of metathesis, about which she has doubts and which are involuntary: the "stand-wash," the "sweeping-crosser," the "sewing chamine." Genoese peasants have the same prank when they try to speak Italian.
Mass.-Molecule.--Atom.--Element.--Compound.--Mixture.-- Analysis.--Synthesis.--Metathesis.--Chemism CHAPTER III.
Where m appears in the name of a reducend, me shall have to take as major that premiss which before was minor, and vice versa-in other words, to transpose the premisses, m stands for mutatio or metathesis.
Here are the Aposiopaesian Auxiliaries, and Dithyramb that killed Punctuation in open fight; Parenthesis the giant and champion of the host, and Anacoluthon that never learned to read or write but is very handy with his sword; and Metathesis and Hendiadys, two Greeks.
And because the brilliancy of any speech depends either on _Propriety_ (that is, the correct agreement of adjective or verb with the substantive) or on _Metathesis_ (that is, the transfer of the meaning of an expression for a worthy reason to another signification), these were the things which he took every opportunity to inculcate in the minds of his hearers.
Quotes with METATHESIS (2)
Jacopo, while I could still read, during these past months, I read dictionaries, I studied histories of words, to understand what was happening in my body. I studied like a rabbi. Have you ever reflected that the linguistic term `metathesis' is similar to the oncological term `metastasis'? What is the metathesis? Instead of `clasp' one says `claps.' Instead of `beloved' one says `bevoled.' It's the temurah. The dictionary says that metathesis means the transposition or interc…
Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity.
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