Meaning

Making a transit or passage..

Definitions by Sense

1. Making a transit or passage.
2. Affected by transference of signification.
3. (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.
4. (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.
5. (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
6. (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
7. (probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
8. (grammar) A transitive verb.

Example Sentences

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.

The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".

Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.

"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.

This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).

Word Forms

• transitives

Antonyms for transitive

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When Should You Use Transitive?

Use transitive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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