Anagram vs Literal - What's the difference?
anagram | literal |
(of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
To form anagrams.
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Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
* Hooker
Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
* Johnson
(of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_%28logic%29]
As nouns the difference between anagram and literal
is that anagram is (of words) a word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase while literal is (programming) a value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.As a verb anagram
is to form anagrams.As an adjective literal is
exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.anagram
English
(wikipedia anagram)Alternative forms
* anagramme (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The word "silent" is an anagram of "listen".
Derived terms
* anagrammatic * anagrammatise * anagrammatism * anagrammatistSee also
* alphagram * palindromeVerb
literal
Alternative forms
* litteral (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.
- a middle course between the rigour of literal translation and the liberty of paraphrasts
- A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
- a literal equation
- The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers.
