(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To anagrammatize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Priming effects in a test of anagram solution were compared with recognition memory in young and older adults.
(2) This was the case even when the words were anagrams.
(3) Tasks included the digit symbol substitution test, the Stroop Color-Word Interference Test, anagram solution, and unsolvable puzzles.
(4) Solving anagrams involved more effort than did simply typing words, as indexed by response time.
(5) After completing a mood checklist, all subjects worked on an anagram task presented as a second experiment by a second experimenter.
(6) Sixty-four subjects were administered two tests of explicit memory (selective recall and recognition) and four tests of implicit memory (identification in a perceptual clarification procedure, word-fragment completion, tachistoscopic identification, and anagram solution).
(7) 48 fourth-and fifth-grade boys and girls (assigned to low, middle, and high anxiety groups by their scores on the Test Anxiety Scale for Children) performed anagram tasks in the presence of an experimenter also working on anagrams.
(8) Single-solution anagrams were chosen from lists of age-appropriate vocabulary words high in concrete imagery or low in imagery (abstract).
(9) The self-esteem of male and female competitive athletes was compared after each was provided either positive or negative (verbal) informational feedback on a nonathletic task, a series of single-solution anagrams.
(10) An evaluation of the indices proposed in the literature regarding measures of anagram difficulty was made by asking three groups (ages 17-26, 39-51, 59-76) of adults (n = 54) to solve a list of 30 anagrams.
(11) Cognitive (arithmetic, anagram, and digit-string memorization) tasks each at two levels of difficulty were matched for reported unpleasantness with autopsy slides to provide stimuli in which stress reactions were constant but cognitive processing requirements varied.
(12) As predicted by the learned helplessness model of depression, nondepressed subjects given unsolvable problems showed anagram deficits parallel to those found in naturally occurring depression.
(13) The article confirms previous results on the stability with age of anagram ability.
(14) Even stronger differences were seen with regard to the number of complete anagrams.
(15) filled interval and their number of correct single solution anagrams tended to correlate negatively with estimated time.
(16) 10.16am BST More helpful suggestions , this from Mark Judd: I fully understand your desire not to mention the new 'Him', but you could use this anagram of his name and it seems apt int he circumstances: 'Grab The Ale' I like it.
(17) Even without the clues sown throughout the album (Palace Posy is an anagram of apocalypse), it audibly suggests a hollowed-out landscape in the aftermath of some terrible event.
(18) The four types of stressful stimuli were: a cold pressor; a stressful film depicting industrial accidents; unsolvable anagrams; and an aversive car horn.
(19) The effects of these treatments on performance were examined by measuring trials to criterion on a subsequent anagram task.
(20) It was also found that the cognitive variable mediating the effects of these indices in middle aged and elderly subjects was crystallized ability, suggesting an experiential basis for the effects of both task and organismic variables as determinants of anagram problem solving in adulthood.
Palindrome
Definition:
(n.) A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the previous finding that certain 30-mer single-stranded oligodeoxyribonucleotides (oligonucleotides) having particular 6-mer palindromic sequences could induce interferon-alpha and -gamma, and enhance natural killer activity, the present study was carried out to clarify the entire relationship between the activity and the sequence of 30-mer oligonucleotides.
(2) Structural analysis showed that they consisted of two pairs of hairpin-palindrome type plasmids, each derived from different parts of pGKL2, respectively.
(3) This phenomenon was observed by using wheat-germ RNA polymerase II and a series of double-stranded template polymers containing palindromic repeating motifs of 6-16 bp, with regulatory alternating purine and pyrimidine bases such as d[ATA(CG)nC].d[TAT(GC)nG], with n = 1, 3 or 6 referred to as d(GC), d(GC)3 or d(GC)6, respectively.
(4) The thyroid hormone-retinoic acid receptor heterodimer exhibits novel transcriptional properties in that coexpression of both receptors at low levels in Green monkey kidney (CV1) cells results in a positive transcriptional effect on promoters containing a palindromic thyroid hormone response element, but has a surprisingly negative effect on a thyroid hormone response element derived from the alpha myosin heavy chain gene.
(5) Many of these palindromes encode identical oligopeptides on both strands.
(6) Our data suggest that the sequence determinants of mutational probability at these two sites lie outside the 8 bases of the palindrome and that mutagenesis at one, but not the other, site is sensitive to perturbation of cellular calcium levels.
(7) Fos and Jun proteins form a tight complex which binds specifically to the AP1 recognition sequence, a palindromic DNA element also referred to as the TPA responsive element (TRE).
(8) Replicative form DNA of phiX174 strain ins6240, containing a 48 bp synthetic palindrome in the J-F intercistronic region, was supercoiled in vitro to mean negative superhelical densities (sigma) ranging from 0 to 0.15.
(9) Interestingly, each of these fragments had a perfect palindromic estrogen responsive element (ERE) (GGT-CANNNTGACC).
(10) One palindromic heptamer CAGNCTG is an ideal target of one DNA-binding protein engaged in chromosome packaging and in generation of banding patterns.
(11) Site-directed mutagenesis revealed that steric constraints and sequence requirements for NicR1-binding are located exclusively in the palindromic sequences.
(12) This finding strongly supports the hypothesis that Fos and Jun form a nearly symmetrical DNA-binding site that interacts with the palindromic TRE.
(13) In the somatic macronucleus of Tetrahymena, the rDNA is in the form of linear palindromic molecules.
(14) These and other data implicate a linear rather than a cruciform conformation of the oriS palindrome in the initiation of HSV replication.
(15) Further studies are needed to determine whether this palindrome is implicated in a feed-back loop regulating oestrogen synthesis in granulosa cells.
(16) We suggest that receptor recognition of the HRE is analogous to that of the helix-turn-helix DNA binding motif in that the receptor binds to DNA as a dimer with the first 'zinc finger' lying in the major groove recognizing one half of the palindromic HRE, and that protein-DNA interaction is stabilized through non-specific DNA binding and dimer interactions contributed by the second 'zinc finger'.
(17) After introduction of these fusions into the chromosomal DNA of mutants affected in sacB regulation, it was possible to reveal different targets for the regulatory genes sacU, sacQ and sacS: the sacU and sacQ genes act on a region located near or just upstream from the promoter, and the sacS gene, which is involved in the induction process, acts on the palindromic structure.
(18) This regulatory sequence is about 50 base-pairs long and is centered 125 base-pairs upstream from the transcription start site in a region containing a 16 base-pair palindromic structure.
(19) These palindrome-containing vectors therefore transform such strains at a very low frequency unless a DNA fragment is cloned within the polylinker at the center of the palindrome.
(20) Gel retention assays and DNase I footprinting with the nuclear proteins of monkey cells showed that the 5'GAGGC3' pentanucleotide repeats on either side of early palindrome domain interact with monkey nuclear protein.