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"expansion": "Medieval Latin",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "transpositio"
},
"expansion": "transpositio",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French transposition, from Medieval Latin transpositio.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "transpositions",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "transpositioning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "transpositioned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "transpositioned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "transposition (third-person singular simple present transpositions, present participle transpositioning, simple past and past participle transpositioned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "twelve tone technique"
},
{
"word": "serialism"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To transpose"
],
"links": [
[
"transpose",
"transpose"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Psychiatry"
],
"glosses": [
"To take on the role of another person"
],
"links": [
[
"psychiatry",
"psychiatry"
],
[
"role",
"role"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(psychiatry) To take on the role of another person"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"medicine",
"psychiatry",
"psychology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "transposition"
}
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