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" Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change."
Gordon W. Allport

Meaning of "transitive" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRANSITIVE

From Late Latin transitīvus from Latin transitus a going over.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TRANSITIVE

ˈtrænsɪtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRANSITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Transitive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TRANSITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of transitive in the English dictionary

The first definition of transitive in the dictionary is denoting an occurrence of a verb when it requires a direct object or denoting a verb that customarily requires a direct object. Other definition of transitive is denoting an adjective, such as fond, or a noun, such as husband, that requires a noun phrase and cannot be used without some implicit or explicit reference to such a noun phrase. Transitive is also having the property that if one object bears a relationship to a second object that also bears the same relationship to a third object, then the first object bears this relationship to the third object.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRANSITIVE

capacitive · competitive · context-sensitive · creative · ditransitive · heat-sensitive · hypersensitive · insensitive · intransitive · native · nonsensitive · nontransitive · oversensitive · photosensitive · positive · radiosensitive · sensitive · supersensitive · ultrasensitive · unsensitive

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRANSITIVE

transit theodolite · Transit van · transitable · transition · transition element · transition metal · transition point · transition team · transition temperature · transitional · transitional relief · transitionally · transitionary · transitively · transitiveness · transitivity · transitorily · transitoriness · transitory · transitory action

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRANSITIVE

active · additive · anticompetitive · aperitive · case-sensitive · cognitive · definitive · false positive · fugitive · HIV-positive · inquisitive · intuitive · nutritive · price-sensitive · primitive · prohibitive · punitive · repetitive · seropositive · time-sensitive · touch-sensitive

Synonyms and antonyms of transitive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «transitive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRANSITIVE

Find out the translation of transitive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of transitive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «transitive» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

> 及物的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

transitivo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

transitive
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

सकर्मक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متعدية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

транзитивным
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

transitivo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সকর্মক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

transitif
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Transitif
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

transitiv
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

他動詞
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

타동사의
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Transitif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tha
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

குன்றாத
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सक्रीय
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

geçişli
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

transitivo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

przechodnia
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

транзитивним
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

tranzitiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεταβατικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorganklike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

transitiv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

transitive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of transitive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRANSITIVE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about transitive

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QUOTES WITH «TRANSITIVE»

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Gordon W. Allport
Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSITIVE»

Discover the use of transitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to transitive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces
Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, this book addresses these questions and speaks to the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.
Subha Mukherji, 2013
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Flag-transitive Steiner Designs
The characterization of combinatorial or geometric structures in terms of their groups of automorphisms has attracted considerable interest in the last decades and is now commonly viewed as a natural generalization of Felix Klein s Erlangen ...
Michael Huber, 2009
3
Transitive Inverse-consistent Image Registration and Evaluation
Few studies have been dedicated to registration evaluation.
Xiujuan Geng, 2007
4
Emergence of Roles in English Canonical Transitive Construction
Utilizing a case-based approach, the model starts with no hard-wired knowledge of roles and learns how to find the Agents and the Patients of the novel actions through exposure to many cases of similar actions sharing the same verb argument ...
Shakila Shayan, 2008
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The Structure of K-CS-transitive Cycle-free Partial Orders
(i) (L,<) is k-transitive <=> (L,<) is k-homogeneous, (ii) if (L, <) is k-transitive for some k > 2, then (L, <) is q-transitive for allq>2, (iii) if(L, <) is 2-transitive and \L\ = N0, then (L, <) * Q. So for linear orders the picture is complete (for the countable ...
Richard Warren, 1997
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Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: 4th ...
An Iterative Algorithm of Computing the Transitive Closure of a Union of Parameterized Affine Integer Tuple Relations Bielecki Wlodzimierz , Klimek Tomasz , Palkowski Marek1, and Anna Beletska2 1 Technical University of Szczecin, ul.
Weili Wu, Ovidiu Daescu, 2010
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Non-Abelian Minimal Closed Ideals of Transitive Lie ...
Introduction Transitive pseudogroups of local diffeomorphisms preserving geometric structures on manifolds have been studied by many authors; the origins of this subject are classical, and may be said to lie in the works of Sophus Lie and ...
Jack Frederick Conn, 2014
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of ...
This guide to the rules of grammar presents amusing instructional sentences to demonstrate correct usage and is illustrated with old engravings
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, 1993
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1960 Institute on Finite Groups: Held at California ...
The properties of block designs needed here may be found in Mann [4, pp. 83- 129]. THEOREM OF JORDAN. Let G be a permutation group on n letters which is primitive, and let H be a transitive subgroup of G on m letters, fixing the remaining  ...
Marshall Hall, California Institute of Technology, American Mathematical Society, 1962
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Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in ...
The transitive closure of a symmetric matrix (undirected graph) is also a symmetric matrix (undirected graph). Mining Direct and Transitive Associations from Potential Transitive Associations: The newly discovered potential transitive ...
Hsinchun Chen, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRANSITIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term transitive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hadley: Notre Dame, Stanford and Connecticut: the transitive property
The transitive property is pretty simple: If A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A must be greater than C. Unfortunately for No. 1 seed Notre Dame, ... «Observer Online, Mar 15»
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Transitive property champs: App State, Wake, Michigan all winners …
Per the transitive property (if a = b and b = c, then a = c), that means Virginia Tech, who beat Ohio State in September, technically can crown itself, too. But we ... «SportingNews.com, Jan 15»
3
A Word, Please: 'Graduate' is a grammatical free-for-all
The difference between the two rests in the concept of transitive vs. intransitive verbs. A transitive verb takes a direct object, like “punched” in “Ed punched Dan. «Glendale News Press, Jan 15»
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Transitive Thoughts: Musings on Harassment, Societal Pressures …
Over the past few weeks, I have experienced more profound doubt about my gender transition than at any other time since I earnestly began my journey last ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
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Clownghazi and the Birth of the Transitive Property Gaffe
On Halloween, a reporter in Kansas asked Greg Orman about one of the defining trends of his campaign for Senate. As Bloomberg's Lisa Lerer has reported, the ... «Bloomberg, Nov 14»
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Louisiana Tech hits LSU with TRANSITIVE SMACK TALK …
It looked like it could have been a long day for Tech at the start of this transitive game, but the Bulldogs showed their grit in the second half, coming from behind ... «SB Nation, Oct 14»
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Revisiting the transitive nightfall of John Oswald's 'Grayfolded'
Warning: The Grateful Dead is the focus of this story, so there will certainly be skeptics from the outset. After all, the San Francisco band, with its extended ... «Los Angeles Times, Sep 14»
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'Transitive Property of Equality' is oratorical winner for Ray-Pec student
“It's called the 'Transitive Property of Equality,' ” Ambam said. “I always thought you could do something great with it.” Todd Schnake, director of theater and ... «Kansas City Star, Jul 14»
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How Can Rich People Vote Republican and Rich States Vote for …
Transitive relations are ones like “weighs more than.” If I weigh more than my son and my son weighs more than my daughter, it's an absolute certainty that I ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 14»
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MALADIES Movie Review – The Transitive Law of James Franco
Thus, Maladies doubles as an empirical proof of the Transitive Law of James Franco, with the actor playing a fictional version of himself playing a fictional ... «Screen Invasion, Mar 14»
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