The definition of transpose is to mix two things up or cause them to change places with each other, or to rewrite music in a different key, or to change something to a new form or place it in a new context.
(verb)See transpose in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb transposed, transposing
Origin: ME transposen < MFr transposer (for L transponere): see trans- & pose
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verb trans·posed, trans·pos·ing, trans·pos·es verb, transitive
Origin:
Origin: Middle English transposen, to transform
Origin: , from Old French transposer
Origin: , alteration (influenced by poser, to put, place)
Origin: of Latin trānspōnere, to transfer
Origin: : trāns-, trans-
Origin: + pōnere, to place; see apo- in Indo-European roots
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