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Anastrophe

Definition: Anastrophe

Anastrophe

Noun

1. The reversal of the normal order of words.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Etymology: Anastrophe \A*nas"tro*phe\, noun. [from Greek expression, from to turn up or back; to turn.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: Anastrophe

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Anastrophe is a figure of speech involving an inversion of the natural order of words; for example, saying "echoed the hills" to mean "the hills echoed".
Source: public domain 1913 Webster's Dictionary
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anastrophe."

Synonym: Anastrophe

Synonym: inversion (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Anastrophe

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inversion	Transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Derivations & Misspellings: Anastrophe

Derivations
	Words beginning with "anastrophe": anastrophes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Anastrophe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anastrophen, anastrophic, anastrophy, panatrope. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Anastrophe"

Words rhyming with "anastrophe" (pronounced 'A*nas"tro*phe'): Antistrophe, Apostrophe, Catastrophe, Monostrophe, Philosophe, rhaphe, Siphonoglyphe, strophe. (additional references)

Anagrams: Anastrophe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-n-o-p-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: anaphors, hanapers, operants, panthers, parashot, phaetons, pheasant, phonates, phorates, pronates, proteans, stanhope.
	-3 letters: aerosat, anapest, anaphor, another, anthers, apnoeas, arpents, atoners, earshot, entraps, esparto, hanaper, haptens, hoarsen, hornets, operant, orphans, paesano, panther, parents, partans, partons, pastern, patrons, peasant, persona, phaeton, phonate, phorate, postern, pothers, pronate, protean, proteas, saphena, seaport, senator, senhora, sharpen.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-n-o-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: anastrophes.
	+3 letters: antiphonaries, azathioprines, magnetographs, naturopathies, parathormones.
	+4 letters: cinematographs, hepatopancreas, parenchymatous, phenobarbitals.
	+5 letters: anthropophagies, hypersalivation, organophosphate, parthenocarpies.
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Alternative Orthography: Anastrophe

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6E 61 73 74 72 6F 70 68 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.- -. .- ... - .-. --- .--. .... .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101110 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01110000 01101000 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

A n a s t r o p h e

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0061 0073 0074 0072 006F 0070 0068 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35806785868481827471

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