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an⋅a⋅gram

   [an-uh-gram]
noun, verb, -grammed, -gram⋅ming.
–noun
1. a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”
2. anagrams, (used with a singular verb) a game in which the players build words by transposing and, often, adding letters.
–verb (used with object)
3. to form (the letters of a text) into a secret message by rearranging them.
4. to rearrange (the letters of a text) so as to discover a secret message.
Origin:
1580–90; prob. < MF anagramme < NL anagramma. See ana-, -gram 1
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an·a·gram     (ān'ə-grām')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
  2. anagrams (used with a sing. verb) A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.


[New Latin anagramma, from Greek anagrammatismos, from anagrammatizein, to rearrange letters in a word : ana-, from bottom to top; see ana- + gramma, grammat-, letter; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.]

an'a·gram·mat'ic (-grə-māt'ĭk) adj., an'a·gram·mat'i·cal·ly adv.
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anagram 
1589, from Fr. anagramme, from Gk. anagrammatizein "transpose letters," from ana- "up, back" + gramma (gen. grammatos) "letter."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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anagram

noun
1. a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase 

verb
1. read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning 

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Anagram

An"a*gram\, n. [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. ? back, again + ? to write. See Graphic.] Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Anagram

An"a*gram\, v. t. To anagrammatize.

Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. --Warburton.

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