PH Thesaurus

[miniman]

Quick thesaurus question for the PH brains:

I'm sure there is a single word that describes 2 objects that are fitted the wrong way round - for example, if I reassemble a gearbox and put in 2 gears back to front, the gears are...

mis-located?
superimposed?

Sure there is a better word! Pint for the first person to tell me!

[alexkp]

Juxtaposed.

[jeremyc]

Transposed?

[miniman]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Ahh, yes, that's a possibility.

[beano500]

Fuct?

[Size Nine Elm]

miniman said:

anonymous said: [redacted] Ahh, yes, that's a possibility.

Nope, that just means placed together or alongside.

Reversed? (Appropriate for a gearbox).

[srebbe64]

"Blaired"?

[titiany]

interchanged?

[Plotloss]

jeremyc said:

Transposed?

[wedge girl]

Permute?

[titiany]

inversed?

[titiany]

substituted?

alternated?

[z1000]

mispositioned ?

[JagLover]

jeremyc said:

Transposed?

yep

[towman]

Towman`d! I HATE stripping gearboxes.

[catso]

Arseaboutface?

[selmer]

Diametrically opposed or 'antithetical'

[wolves_wanderer]

[georgewbush] Turnaroundacised [/georgewbush]

[wiggy001]

FUBAR'd

[simpo two]

miniman said:

if I reassemble a gearbox and put in 2 gears back to front, the gears are...

You need to be more precise. Do you mean that Gear A is where Gear B should be and vice versa, or that the gears are in the correct places but facing the wrong way? Or both?