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Transitive
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- 1 Making a transit or passage. not-comparable
"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."
- 2 Affected by transference of signification. not-comparable
"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."
- 3 Taking a direct object or objects. not-comparable
"The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem"."
- 4 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. not-comparable
""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."
- 5 Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. not-comparable
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- 6 Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. not-comparable
- 7 Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property. not-comparable
- 1 designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning wordnet
- 1 A transitive verb.
"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)."
- 2 a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical wordnet
Etymology
From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
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