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Making a transit or passage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Affected by transference of signification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Taking a direct object or objects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: intransitive
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: mathematics, sciences, set-theory
Examples
- "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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: intransitive, nontransitive
Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: algebra, mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: mathematics, probability, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A transitive verb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: intransitive
a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: verb
Narrower terms: doubly transitive verb, doubly transitive verb form
From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
Across languages
Translations
100 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
преходен
(prehoden)
— making a transit or passage
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Catalan:
transitiu
— making a transit or passage
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Finnish:
siirtyvä
— making a transit or passage
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Finnish:
kulkeva
— making a transit or passage
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Portuguese:
transitivo
— making a transit or passage
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Portuguese:
transitório
— making a transit or passage
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Romanian:
tranzitiv
— making a transit or passage
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Russian:
перехо́дный
(perexódnyj)
— making a transit or passage
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Spanish:
transitivo
— making a transit or passage
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Ukrainian:
перехідни́й
(perexidnýj)
— making a transit or passage
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Dutch:
overdrachtelijk
— affected by transference of signification
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Finnish:
muuttuva
— affected by transference of signification
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Ukrainian:
о́бразний
(óbraznyj)
— affected by transference of signification
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Albanian:
kalimtar
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Arabic:
مُتَعَدٍّ
(mutaʕaddin)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Armenian:
անցողական
(ancʻoġakan)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Azerbaijani:
təsirli
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Belarusian:
перахо́дны
(pjeraxódny)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Bulgarian:
прехо́ден
(prehóden)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Catalan:
transitiu
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Chinese Mandarin:
及物
(jíwù)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Czech:
přechodný
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Danish:
transitiv
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Dutch:
overgankelijk
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Dutch:
transitief
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Esperanto:
transitiva
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Finnish:
transitiivinen
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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French:
transitif
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Galician:
transitivo
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Georgian:
გარდამავალი
(gardamavali)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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German:
transitiv
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Greek:
μεταβατικός
(metavatikós)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Ancient Greek:
μεταβατικός
(metabatikós)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Ancient Greek:
ἀλλοπαθής
(allopathḗs)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Ancient Greek:
διαβιβαστικός
(diabibastikós)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Hebrew:
יוֹצֵא
(yotsé)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Hindi:
सकर्मक
(sakarmak)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Hungarian:
tárgyas
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Irish:
aistreach
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Italian:
transitivo
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Japanese:
他動
(tadō)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Korean:
타동
(tadong)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Northern Kurdish:
têper
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Northern Kurdish:
gerguhêz
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Macedonian:
преоден
(preoden)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Malayalam:
സകർമ്മകക്രിയ
(sakaṟmmakakriya)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Mongolian:
тусах
(tusax)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Norman:
transitif
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Norwegian:
transitiv
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Occitan:
transitiu
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Polish:
przechodni
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Portuguese:
transitivo
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Romanian:
tranzitiv
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Russian:
перехо́дный
(perexódnyj)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Scottish Gaelic:
aisigeach
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Scottish Gaelic:
aistreach
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Scottish Gaelic:
asdolach
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Serbo-Croatian:
пре́лазан
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Serbo-Croatian:
прије́лазан
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Serbo-Croatian:
prélazan
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Serbo-Croatian:
prijélazan
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Slovak:
prechodný
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Slovene:
prehoden
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Spanish:
transitivo
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Swedish:
transitiv
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Turkish:
geçişli
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Ukrainian:
перехідни́й
(perexidnýj)
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Vietnamese:
ngoại
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Volapük:
loveädik
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Welsh:
anghyflawn
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Zazaki:
ravêrdın
— grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects
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Chinese Mandarin:
传递性
(chuándìxìng)
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Czech:
tranzitivní
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Esperanto:
transitiva
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Finnish:
transitiivinen
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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French:
transitif
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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German:
transitiv
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Icelandic:
gegnvirkur
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Japanese:
推移的
(suiiteki)
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Polish:
przechodni
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Portuguese:
transitivo
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Romanian:
tranzitiv
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Russian:
перехо́дный
(perexódnyj)
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Serbo-Croatian:
тра̏нзитӣван
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Serbo-Croatian:
trȁnzitīvan
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Spanish:
transitivo
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Swedish:
transitiv
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Tagalog:
palipat
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Ukrainian:
перехідни́й
(perexidnýj)
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Welsh:
trosaidd
— set theory, of a relation on a set
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Finnish:
transitiivinen
— of a group action
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French:
transitif
— of a group action
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Polish:
tranzytywny
— of a group action
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Portuguese:
transitivo
— of a group action
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Spanish:
transitivo
— of a group action
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Esperanto:
transitiva
— of a graph
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Finnish:
transitiivinen
— of a graph
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French:
transitif
— of a graph
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Hebrew:
טרנזיטיבי
— of a graph
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Spanish:
transitivo
— of a graph