different between capstone vs anagram

English

Etymology

From Middle English capston; equivalent to cap +? stone.

Noun

capstone (plural capstones)

1. Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
2. (figuratively) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
   • 1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Far from the Maddening Girls, chapter 5

     “You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity.

   • 1969, NASA, The Post-Apollo Space Program: Directions for the Future

     Success of the Apollo program has been the capstone to a series of significant accomplishments for the United States in space in a broad spectrum of manned and unmanned exploration missions and in the application of space techniques for the benefit of man.

Translations

Synonyms

• capestane, copestone

Verb

capstone (third-person singular simple present capstones, present participle capstoning, simple past and past participle capstoned)

1. (transitive) To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
   • 2012, Keith Brooke, Strange Divisions and Alien Territories (page 23)

     Capstoning a decade's worth of linked short stories, The Quiet War (2008) was a vivid and tense novel about a solar system sliding into conflict.

2. (transitive, US, military, informal) To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.
   • 1981, Army Reserve Magazine (volumes 27-28, page 24)

     “Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime.

See also

• keystone

Anagrams

• caponets, opencast, patonces, potances

For anagrams in Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Anagrams

English

Alternative forms

• anagramme (obsolete)

Etymology

Late 16th century, from French anagramme, formed on Greek ??? (aná, “up, back”) + ?????? (grámma, “letter”). Analyzable as ana- (“up, back”) +? -gram (“letter”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.n?.??æm/, enPR: ??n?gr?m
• Hyphenation: ana?gram

Noun

anagram (plural anagrams)

1. (of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

   Coordinate terms: alphagram, palindrome

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

anagram (third-person singular simple present anagrams, present participle anagramming, simple past and past participle anagrammed)

1. To form anagrams.

Further reading

• anagram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• argaman

Czech

Etymology

From French anagramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ana?ram]
• Hyphenation: ana?gram

Noun

anagram m inan

1. anagram

Declension

Synonyms

• p?esmy?ka f (much less common)

Danish

Noun

anagram n (singular definite anagrammet, plural indefinite anagrammer)

1. anagram

Declension

References

• “anagram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French anagramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.na???r?m/
• Hyphenation: ana?gram

Noun

anagram n (plural anagrammen, diminutive anagrammetje n)

1. anagram

   Synonym: letterkeer

Irish

Etymology

From French anagramme, from Ancient Greek ??? (aná, “up, back”) + ?????? (grámma, “letter”).

Noun

anagram m (genitive singular anagraim, nominative plural anagraim)

1. anagram

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "anagram" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “anagram” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?na.?ram/

Noun

anagram m inan

1. anagram

Declension

Further reading

• anagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an??ram/
• Hyphenation: a?na?gram

Noun

anàgram m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. anagram

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

ana- +? -gram

Noun

anagram n

1. anagram

Declension

Anagrams

• gamarna, magarna