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 an·a·gram /ˈænəˌgræm/
 由顛倒字母而成的字(片語)

 An·a·gram n.  Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change of one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters.  Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

 An·a·gram, v. t. To anagrammatize.
    Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus.   --Warburton.
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 anagram
      n : a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of
          another word or phrase
      v : read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning [syn:
           anagrammatize, anagrammatise]