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Definition of 'semordnilap'English
Noun
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A word, phrase, or sentence that has the property of forming another word, phrase, or sentence when its letters are reversed. A semordnilap differs from a palindrome in that the word or phrase resulting from the reversal is different from the original word or phrase.
* {{quote-book|1965||Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthological Oddities|page=42 citation
|passage=[he] then goes on to credit us with giving him some of the best examples of semordnilaps .}}
* {{quote-book|2000|Gail Smith|Celebrate the Piano|page=18|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=3gmlW_hW4JMC&pg=PA18
|passage=This song is a semordnilap . It can be played forward and then sounds different when it is played backwards.}}
* {{quote-book|2008|Alex Pogel & David Ozonoff|chapter=Contingency Structures and Concept Analysis|title=Formal Concept Analysis|editors=Medina & Obietkov|page=318|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=J3mTaeAzEAAC&pg=PA318
|passage=ACE is an acronym for Analysis of Concepts for Epidemiologists, and a semordnilap for ECA, Epidemiological Concept Analysis.}}
Synonyms
* anadrome, antigram, half-palindrome, heteropalindrome, reversgram, reversible anagram, semi-palindrome, word reversal
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