Transition

/tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another..

Definitions by Sense

1. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
2. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
3. (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
4. (music) A change of key.
5. (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
6. (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
7. (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
8. (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.

Example Sentences

All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.

So, depending on how he chooses to govern over the next four years, Mr. Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the next. His re-election opens the door further for the post-’60s generation, even if it does not quite clear the room.

Holonym: metadiscourse

The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

The LED lights up her face as she watches the YouTube video of a goth girl in New Orleans again. Nobody could tell to look at her. She has a year-long film of her transition and at the end of it she has black lips and long hair and she is hot.

When trans young people talk about their own transition, usually they mean using a different name and pronouns from the ones given to them at birth, and adapting their gender presentation to better express themselves, while asking that others (particularly family members, peers and teachers) acknowledge this presentation.

As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition.

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Word Forms

• transitions
• transitioning
• transitioned

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