Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/
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ˈtɹænzɪtɪv
Adjective
Making a transit or passage.
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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.
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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.
Taking a direct object or objects.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a verb
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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.
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.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a relation on a set
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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.
Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a group action
Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a graph
Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
Usage- not-comparable
Noun
A transitive verb.
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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).
Adjective
designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning
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Noun
a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
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