umstellen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- besiege verb To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
- commute verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
- rearrange verb To change the order or arrangement of things.
- retool verb To adjust; to optimize; to rebuild.
- transpose verb To swap the order or position of two or more things.
Senses
umstellen is used for these senses in English:
- besiege (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
- commute (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
- rearrange (transitive) To change the order or arrangement of (one or more items).
- retool (transitive) To adjust; to optimize; to rebuild.
- transpose (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
- transpose (transitive, algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
besiege — full definition
- verb To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
- verb To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
- verb To assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
commute — full definition
- verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
- noun The regular journey between home and work.
- verb To reduce a legal penalty or sentence to something less severe.