abuse of terms, amphibologism, calembour, conundrum, equivocality, jeu de mots, logogriph, metagram, palindrome, play on words, punning, riddle, wordplay
Definitionn. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
Last update: July 15, 2015
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Each discovery in turn was, according to the prevailing custom, announced to the learned world under the veil of an anagram - removed, in the case of the first, by the publication, early in 1656, of the little tract De Saturni luna observatio nova; but retained, as regards the second, until 1659, when in the Systema Saturnium the varying appearances of the so-called "triple planet" were clearly explained as the phases of a ring inclined at an angle of 28° to the ecliptic. Huygens was also in 1656 the first effective observer of the Orion nebula; he delineated the bright region still known by his name, and detected the multiple character of its nuclear star. [Please select]
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It was he who wrote the famous anagram on the vowels A, E, I, O, U. [Please select]
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He re-read the letter, studied it thoroughly, in hopes that there might be an anagram. [Please select]
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Lucius Barettus is an anagram for the real name Albertus Curtius. [Please select]
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There are doubts as to the origin of the name he has made so famous; whether it was derived from a fief possessed by his mother, or from an anagram of AROUET LE JEUNE. [Please select]
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