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PERMUTE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change the order or arrangement of

Example:

Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word

Synonyms:

commute; permute; transpose

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "permute" is one way to...):

change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "permute"):

map; represent (to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

permutation (act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group)

permutation (the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements)

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