AERST transposals.

AERST transposals. My article "Transposing Rates" in the November 1987 WordWays has examples for 63 of the 120 possible transposals of the lettersAERST. Further research has expanded the collection to 85, with many ofthe original entries being improved as well. Abbreviations like ESRTA(Empire State Restaurant & Tavern Association) are excluded;however, a couple of derivatives (RTase, TSAer) are listed. Names withinitials, such as T.S. RAE, are omitted, as are contrived terms andpurely foreign words. Due to the nature of the source (Net), someexamples may be suspect. AERST an early form of erst, first [OED] AERTS a surname listed 163 times in US telephone directories [WhitePages]. Egidus Aerts (1822-53) was a Belgian musician and composer [DUB] AREST an obsolete form of arrest and erst [OED] ARETS ARETS Armor Remoted Target System reckons, ascribes, imputes [Web 2] ARSET backwards, a Scots term [SND SNDstandardized normal deviation. ] ARSTE a surname listed 4 times in US telephone directories [WhitePages], and 6 times in the 1978/79 Hamburg, West Germany telephonedirectory [TD] ARTES ARTES Automated Remote Time Entry System plural of arte, a 14-17th century spelling of art [OED] ARTSE an Ashkenazic male given name [DAGN] ASERT ASERT Astral System for the Estimation of Radial TransmissionASERT AFOTEC Subject Evaluation and Reporting Toolkit (AFOTEC developed software)brand name of the anti-depressant sertraline sertraline/ser��tra��line/ (ser��trah-len) a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor used as the hydrochloride salt in the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic disorder. [Net] ASRET a male given name [Kabalarians] ASTER aster[Gr.,=star], common name for the Asteraceae (Compositae), the aster family, in North America, name for plants of the genus Aster, sometimes called wild asters, and for a related plant more correctly called China aster (Callistephus chinensis in sponges, a star-shaped spicule spicule:see chromosphere. [Web 2] ASTRE a hearth or home [OED] ATERS plural of ater, an early form of atter, poison, gall [OED] ATRES ATRES Association for the Teaching of Religious Education in ScotlandATRES Resume of Atomic Post Strike Results Report genitive genitive(jĕn`ĭtĭv)[Lat.,=genetic], in Latin grammar, the case typically used to refer to a possessor. The term is used in the grammar of other languages, but the phenomenon referred to may not closely resemble a Latin genitive; thus a singular form of ator, poison, venom [A ConciseAnglo-Saxon Dictionary, J.R. Clark Hall, 1960] ATSER son of Thured, a Somerset landowner in Anglo-Saxon times[Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, W.G. Searle, 1897] EARST an obsolete variant of erst [OED] EARTS EARTS En Route Automated Radar Tracking SystemEARTS Enhanced Aircraft Radar Test Station plural of eart, Shetland Islands form of earth [SND] EASTR possibly an early variant of the surname Easter. BridgettEastr and Margaret Eastr of Atwick, Yorkshire were both married in 1663[IGI, British Isles] ERAST 15th century form of erst [OED] ERATS persons with the surname Erat such as the 221 listed in UStelephone directories [White Pages] ERSAT a Turkish male given name, such as Ersat Hurmuzlu, author ofIrak Turkleri, 1991 [Net] ERSTA a populated place in Sweden [GeoNames] ERTAS a surname listed 9 times in US telephone directories [WhitePages] ERTSA Finnish diminutive or nickname for the male given name Erik[yhdistykset.etela-karjala. fi], such as Erik "Ertsa" Mandelinand Erik "Ertsa" Tarnaala [Net] ESART a surname recorded 6 times in the 1930 Federal US Census,including Vincent and Margaret Esart and their children Marguerita andVincent Jr of Suffolk County, Massachusetts Suffolk County is a county of Massachusetts. As of 2000, the population was 689,807. Its county seat is Boston6. HistoryIn 1793 most of the original Suffolk County except for Boston, Chelsea, Hingham and Hull split off and became Norfolk County. [Net]. Vincent and ArleneEsart are residents of Concord, Massachusetts [ussearch.com(Net)]. Thereare 33 entries for Esart in Britain [IGI, British Isles] ESRAT a Bangladeshi female given name (sometimes rendered Israt orIshrat), such as lawmaker Esrat Sultana Elen Bhutto and junior tennisplayer Esrat-Zahan Eti [Net] ESTAR a surname listed 8 times in US telephone directories [WhitePages] ESTRA variant of the female given name Esther [What to Name theBaby, Evelyn Wells (1946)] ETARS plural of etar, a 15th century spelling of eater [OED] ETRAS persons with the surname Etra such as the 79 listed in UStelephone directories [White Pages] E-TSAR someone appointed to lead a campaign to get more businessesand individuals on the Internet. "Will the minister say a littlemore about the e-envoy or e-tsar?" [The UK Parliament, House ofCommons House of Commons:see Parliament. Hansard Debates for 29 Nov 1999 (Net)]. Dorcas Etsar of Surrey,England is recorded in the 1881 British Census, and Anne Etsar, daughterof John Etsar, was christened on 4 Mar 1719 in Leatherhead, Surrey,England [IGI, British Isles] ETSRA a small town in northern Saudi Arabia [EB, 10th Edition,1903] RAEST an early form of the noun rest [OED] RAETS surname of Willem Raets, a 16th century Flemish mathematician[DUB] RASET variant of reset, an old Scots form of receipt [DOST, reset,1556 quot] RASTE a surname listed 5 times in US telephone directories [WhitePages] and 4 times in the 1981 Oslo, Norway telephone directory [TD] RATES the amount of assessment on property for local purposes [OED] RATSE an Ashkenazic female given name [DAGN] REAST variant of reest, to become rancid [OED] REATS plural of reat, an offence, wrong-doing [DOST] RESAT past tense of resit resitVerb[-sitting, -sat]to sit (an examination) againNounan examination which one must sit againresitvt (Brit) [resat , , to sit (an exam) again [OED] RESTA a populated place in Sweden [GeoNames] RETAS a surname listed 3 times in US telephone directories [WhitePages]. People with the surname Reta such as the 219 listed in UStelephone directories [white Pages] RETSA Retsa Agency Inc and Retsa Business Services are based inJackson Heights, New York [AllPages.com (Net)] RSETA surname of Milan Rseta, a resident of St. Petersburg Beach,Florida [White Pages] RTASE short for reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that transcribessingle-stranded RNA RNA:see nucleic acid. RNAin full ribonucleic acidOne of the two main types of nucleic acid (the other being DNA), which functions in cellular protein synthesis in all living cells and replaces DNA as the carrier of genetic into double-stranded DNA DNA:see nucleic acid. DNAor deoxyribonucleic acidOne of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. [Net], compare RNase [OED] SAERT a former subdivision of the province of Kurdistan in Turkey[EB, 9th Edition, 1876] SAETR the name of a farm in Norway [NG, Vol 19]. Saetr is an oldNorse word meaning mountain pasture (see etymology of saeter) [OED] SARET a populated place in Afghanistan [GeoNames] SARTE a populated place in Ethiopia [GeoNames] SATER variant of saeter, a meadow associated with a dwelling in theShetland Islands [OED] SATRE a surname listed 210 times in US telephone directories [WhitePages] SEART surname of Conrad and Elisabeth Seart of Indiana, recorded inthe 1880 US Census [familysearch.org (Net)]. The surname Seart is listed6 times in Britain [IGI, British Isles], and 5 times in Noah America[IGI, Noah America] SERAT a region in Yemen [Times Index-Gazetteer, 1965] SERTA the modern Syriac cursive script [Web 2] SETAR variant of sitar, a guitar-like Indian musical instrument[OED] SETRA a populated place in Indonesia [GeoNames] SRATE surname of twins Caroline and Friedrich Srate, born 3 Oct1868 in Ludenhausen, Germany; their father was Heinrich Srate [IGI,Germany] SREAT surname of a Missouri family of 5 recorded in the 1880 UScensus [familysearch.org (Net)] SRETA a male given name [Kabalarians] STAER old Scots variant of stair [DOST] STARE a fixed gaze [OED] STEAR one of the weasel tribe [EDD] STERA a populated place in Yemen [GeoNames] STRAE 16-19th century Scots form of straw [OED] STREA 17-19th century dialectic form of straw [OED] TAERS Shetland Islands and Cornish form of tears [EDD] TARES the cultivated vetch vetch,common name for many weak-stemmed, leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). The vetches are chiefly annuals, distributed over temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere and of South America. , grown as fodder [OED] TARSE the tarsus Tarsus(tär`səs, Turk. tärss`), city (1990 pop. 191,333), S Turkey, in Cilicia, on the Tarsus (anc. Cydnus) River, near the Mediterranean Sea. , first part of the foot [OED] TASER a type of stun-gun [OED] TASRE surname of Daniell Tasre, son of Potogono Taste, who waschristened in London on 21 Sep 1613 [IGI, British Isles] TEARS drops of any liquid [OED] TERAS a monster [Web 2] TERSA a populated place in Russia [GeoNames] TESAR a surname listed over 300 times in US telephone directories[White Pages] TESRA surname of Guerino Tesra, a resident of Akron, Ohio [WhitePages]; also, a female given name [Kabalarians] TRAES variant of thraes, suffers from a serious illness [SND] TRASE an obsolete form of trace [OED] TREAS a 16th century form of the noun trace [OED] TRESA a stream in Norway [GeoNames] TSRAE Tsrae Lee Agency, a company running Trsae Art 'n'Frames, based in Penang, Malaysia [Net] TSAER an employee of the Transport Security Administration (TSA TSASee tax-sheltered annuity (TSA). )."At least you have a fighting chance one dependent upon the issue of a struggle.See also: Fighting with the TSAer at first stagesecurity" [slashtravel.com (Net)]. The surname Tsaer was recordedin the Russian village of Rosenheim in the Volga Census of 1798[ahsrg.org, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, VolgaCensus Index (Net)] TSARE given name of French Canadian man Tsare Genits (born 1817,Quebec), recorded in the 1881 Canadian Census [familysearch.org (Net)].Skazka o Tsare Saltane (The Tale of Tsar Saltan) is an opera by Russiancomposer Rimsky-Korsakov [Net] TSEAR surname of S.Y. Tsear, listed in the 1983 and 1985 Torontotelephone directory [TD] TSERA a populated place in Burma (now Myanmar) [GeoNames] References DAGN Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names, Alexander Beider, 2001 DOST Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) is a 12-volume dictionary that documents the history of the Scots language from the earliest written evidence in the twelfth century until the year 1700. DOST was compiled over a period of some eighty years, from 1931-2002. , 1937-2002 DUB Dictionary of Universal Biography, Albert Hyamson, 1951 EB Encyclopaedia Britannica EDD English Dialect Dictionary English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is a dictionary of English language dialects, compiled by Joseph Wright.The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last , Joseph Wright, 1905 GeoNames National Imagery & Mapping Agency placename database[geonames.usgs.gov] IGI International Genealogical Index The International Genealogical Index (IGI) is a database of genealogical records, compiled from a variety of different sources, and maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [familysearch.org] Kabalarians kabalarians.com, an Internet database of given names Net the Internet, using Google search program NG Norske Gaardnavne (A Register of Norwegian Farm Names), OlufRygh, 1936 OED Oxford English Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary(OED) great multi-volume historical dictionary of English. [Br. Hist.: Caught in the Web of Words]See : Lexicography , 2nd Edition, 1989 SND Scottish National Dictionary The Scottish National Dictionary was produced by the Scottish National Dictionary Association (SNDA) from 1931 to 1976. 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