remain vs transpose

remain

verb
  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. 

  • To await; to be left to. 

  • To continue in a state of being. 

  • To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. 

  • To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared. 

noun
  • That which is left; relic; remainder. 

  • That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. 

  • Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works. 

transpose

verb
  • To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures. 

  • To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key. 

  • To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators. 

  • To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order. 

  • To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange. 

  • To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term. 

adj
  • A matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix. 

noun
  • The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators. 

  • The resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix. 

How often have the words remain and transpose occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )