What's the difference between rewrite and transpose?

Rewrite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To write again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The French data protection commissioner, the CNIL, led the inquiry and said that Google in effect let users pick and choose how their data was used among different services such as Gmail, Youtube and Google+ – a dramatic rewrite of the single privacy policy Google introduced in March.
  • (2) So, unless he is planning to rewrite the spending review, Osborne can have little of significance to say on spending.
  • (3) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
  • (4) It's fascinating, but above all it proves to be indispensable when it comes to judging how a vote will go, or in rewriting an amendment as a compromise.
  • (5) Because I work in the community and am based at a different NHS trust I then have to duplicate the assessment information to rewrite it on my own trust’s electronic system.
  • (6) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
  • (7) They will certainly dissect every word of your upcoming book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success.
  • (8) Barack Obama is expected to address the threat posed by North Korea in hisstate of the union speech on Tuesday evening after news of Pyongyang's third underground nuclear test triggered some last-minute rewriting of the text.
  • (9) Hollande sparked concern in Britain with the launch his 60-point manifesto last week, when he said he was prepared to tear up and rewrite the EU fiscal treaty to impose more financial rigour on member states.
  • (10) As the storm rages, the keepers of the euro flame have lined up to offer radical ways to rewrite the single currency's rules to make the project more viable in the long term.
  • (11) There was a microcosm of that in the late rewrite of the section of the speech on debt.
  • (12) World War Z was beset with problems during its production, involving rewrites and the whole 40-minute third act being reshot , but the struggle proved worth it as the film made $540m worldwide earlier this year.
  • (13) "The genius is never in the writing, it's in the rewriting," says Rodgers.
  • (14) Where now is a Maynard Keynes to rewrite The Economic Consequences of the Peace ?
  • (15) When I rewrite my book I will be more generous because I believe that for at least a good portion of the second term she was probably covering for her husband and trying to help him.
  • (16) One of the big flashpoints at the Liberal NSW state council meeting was a push by the Warringah conference to rewrite the party’s constitution to reflect John Howard’s proposal to introduce plebiscites involving all local members to decide on preselections in all state and federal seats.
  • (17) His speech to the King's Fund last week made plain his game: having decided that the Labour's 2004 GP contract is the source of problems ranging from poor care of older people to A&E pressures, he is going to rewrite it by next April, sweeping away bureaucracy and securing a "dramatic simplification" of targets and incentives.
  • (18) Writing in the Observer under the headline "Michael Gove, using history for politicking is tawdry" , Hunt seethes, "the government is using what should be a moment for national reflection and respectful debate to rewrite the historical record and sow political division."
  • (19) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
  • (20) Respect [for] the electoral calendar as fixed by the constitution is central to the debate.” Many African presidents have tried to stay in power by rewriting their countries’ constitutions to lose the limits on presidential terms.

Transpose


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.
  • (v. t.) To change; to transform; to invert.
  • (v. t.) To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed.
  • (v. t.) To change the natural order of, as words.
  • (v. t.) To change the key of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The initial observation of Tn551 transition involved UV inactivation of the carrier plasmid; this would appear to be a general means of detecting transposable elements.
  • (2) The spontaneous v alleles that are suppressed by the suppressor of sable [su(s)] are apparently identical insertions of 412, a copia-like transposable element.
  • (3) Analysis of a transposable, element-induced o2 allele, o2-m20, revealed that sectors of endosperm cells contained the nuclear-localized O2 protein, indicating excision of the transposable element.
  • (4) Restriction mapping and Southern hybridization analyses of these cloned DNA fragments suggested that these s-triazine catabolic genes may be located on a transposable element, the ends of which are identical 2.2-kb insertion sequences.
  • (5) The availability of a transposon-based mutator system should aid in the cloning of additional genes in C. elegans, and the particular properties of this Tc1 system may provide information about the control of transposable element activity more generally.
  • (6) Up to now, one surgical repair in an adolescent with transposed great arteries and total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of the supracardiac type has been reported.
  • (7) After shunting these arteries were transposed to the surface of the left ventricle which allowed the ventriculotomy incision under them to be sutured.
  • (8) The distribution of the number of copies of P and I transposable elements per genome was investigated by in situ hybridization for a large set of Drosophila melanogaster strains.
  • (9) Here, we examine a group of six recessive mutations, the facets (fa, fa3, fag, fag-2, fafx and fasw), which affect eye and optic lobe morphology and have been previously shown to be associated with the insertion of transposable elements into an intronic region of Notch.
  • (10) Fetal abuse may be one antecedent of child abuse, and this paper attempts to transpose the known correlates of child abuse into an antenatal time framework.
  • (11) Our results indicate that, if the mutant can be transposed equally well in the presence of the wild type, then it can be expected to be found in preponderance, whereas elements, such as retroviruses, where the transposing genome and its phenotypic expression are coupled, may be characterized by a low mutant frequency.
  • (12) The insertion element is shown to transpose to different sites in the chromosome of a related fast-growing species, M. smegmatis.
  • (13) We suggest that oriC and mioC might have been transposed during evolution into an asnC regulation.
  • (14) The insertion sequence IS1 belongs to a class of bacterial transposable genetic elements that can form compound transposons in which two copies of IS1 flank an otherwise non-transposable segment of DNA.
  • (15) This shows that the element was transposed to this location before speciation of the subgenus.
  • (16) The transposable genetic element Tn3, which carries an ampicillin (Ap) resistance determinant, has been translocated from a ColE1-Apr plasmid, RSF2124, to the genome of the filamentous single-stranded DNA phage M13.
  • (17) "At first I thought we could take the six characters and transpose them to a time in the future after an imaginary climate apocalypse.
  • (18) To determine whether exposure to proximal intestinal contents per se is an adequate stimulus for ileal adaptation of the magnitude seen after jejunectomy, rats were prepared by transposing 30 cm of distal ileum to the duodenojejunal junction or by sham operation.
  • (19) P transposable elements in Drosophila melanogaster can undergo precise loss at a rate exceeding 13% per generation.
  • (20) Two alleles were identified as mutations in the accC gene, the third allele was identified as a mutation in the accB gene, and the fourth allele was shown to be an insertion of an IS1 transposable element in the promoter region of the operon, resulting in reduced transcription.