التي في فئةENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY
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التي في فئةENGLISH - ADJECTIVE
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English - Adjective
TRANSITIVE (_not comparable_)
* Making a transit or passage.
* (Can we date this quote?) Ralph Waldo Emerson, _The Poet_:
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.
* Affected by transference of signification.
* (Can we [[:Category:Requests for quotation/John Stuart Mill|find and add]] a quotation of John Stuart Mill to this entry?)[[Category:Requests for quotation/John Stuart Mill|TRANSITIVE]]
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.
* (grammar, of a verb) Taking an object or objects.
_The English verb "to notice" is a TRANSITIVE verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem"._
* (Can we date this quote?) G. K. Chesterton, _Orthodoxy_:
Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a TRANSITIVE to an intransitive verb.
* (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element _x_ is related to _y_ and _y_ is related to _z_, then _x_ is necessarily related to _z_.
_"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._
* (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.
ANTONYMS
* (grammar, of a verb: taking an object): intransitive
* (set theory, of a relation on a set): intransitive, nontransitive
TRANSLATIONS
DERIVED TERMS
* ditransitive
* monotransitive
* complex transitive
* transitively
* transitiveness
* transitive verb
transitive
(not comparable)
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Making a transit or passage.
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Affected by transference of signification.
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(grammar, of a
verb) Taking an object or objects.
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The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
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(set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.
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"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.
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(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.
التي في فئةENGLISH - SEE ALSO
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English - See Also
* reflexive
* symmetric
التي في فئةENGLISH - REFERENCES
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English - References
* transitive in _Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary_, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
التي في فئةFRENCH - PRONUNCIATION
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French - Pronunciation
* IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.zi.tiv/
* Rhymes: -iv
* Homophone: transitives
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التي في فئةITALIAN - ADJECTIVE
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التي في فئةITALIAN - ANAGRAMS
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Italian - Anagrams
* intervista, intestarvi, intraviste, rinvestita, rinvitaste, strinatevi, vetrinista
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