Transitive Definition

trănsĭ-tĭv, -zĭ-
adjective
Of, showing, or characterized by transition; transitional.
Webster's New World
Expressing an action thought of as passing over to and having an effect on some person or thing; taking a direct object.
Webster's New World
Designating a relation having the property that, whenever a first element bears a particular relation to a second that in turn bears this same relation to a third, the first element bears this relation to the third.
Identity and equality are transitive relations.
Webster's New World

Making a transit or passage.

Wiktionary

Affected by transference of signification.

Wiktionary
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noun
A transitive verb.
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Origin of Transitive

  • Late Latin trānsitīvus passing over (translation of Greek diabibastikos) from trānsitus past participle of trānsīre to go over transient

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin transitivus, from transitus, from trans (“across") + itus, from eo (“to go").

    From Wiktionary

Transitive Sentence Examples

  • You will find that some verbs can be either transitive or intransitive depending on the context of their sentence.

  • Thus intransitive bases seem to have begun only with soft consonants, and it is doubtful whether the parent tongue possessed hard consonants at all; while transitive bases were formed by hardening of the initial consonants and at the same time pronouncing the words in a higher tone, and these two latter changes are supposed to have been indicated by a prefix to the base-word.

  • The verbal predicate of a transitive action became the dominant feature of its inner structure.

  • Never let a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

  • Page 387, fourth paragraph, lines 3-4 The earlier query did not lose it's joins predicate tho transitive closure - so.. .

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Words Starting With

TTRTRA

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

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Words Starting With T and Ending With E

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