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Definition of Transitive

1. Noun. A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical.

2. Adjective. Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning.

Definition of Transitive

1. a. Having the power of making a transit, or passage.

Definition of Transitive

1. Adjective. Making a (transit) or passage. ¹

2. Adjective. Affected by (transference) of signification. ¹

3. Adjective. (grammar): Of a verb, that takes an (object) or objects. (compare with: (intransitive) .) ¹

4. Adjective. (set theory): Of a (relation) ''R'' on a (set) ''S'', such that if ''xRy'' and ''yRz'', then ''xRz'' for all (member members) ''x'', ''y'' and ''z'' of ''S'' (that is, if the relation applies from one element to a second, and from the second to a third, then it also applies from the first element to the third). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transitive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transitive

transitional denture transitional element transitional endoplasmic reticulum transitional epithelium transitional gyrus transitional leukocyte transitional zone transitionally transitionary transitioned

transitioning transitionist transitionists transitionless transitions transitive (current term) transitive-verb transitive animate transitive verb transitive verb form

transitive verbs transitively transitiveness transitivise transitivities transitivity transitivize transitorily transitoriness transitory

Literary usage of Transitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"Any verb, active or middle, is called transitive if its action passes over ... But the distinction between transitive and intransitive is not founded on an ..."

2. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"The inflection of transitive nouns for subject and object uses the pronominal ... With transitive nouns from TA direct themes and TI themes the person ..."

3. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"Third, Acts that are external may be distinguished into External transitive and intransitive. Acts may be called transitive, when transitive or • • • * in! ..."

4. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1907)
"Acts may be called transitive, when transitive or the motion is communicated from the person of the agent to some foreign body: that is, to such a foreign ..."

5. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"Many verbs are sometimes transitive and sometimes intransitive. transitive VERBS. § 320. Verbs are called transitive if their motion or idea is incomplete ..."

6. Primitive Groups by William Albert Manning (1921)
"I. A primitive group which contains a transitive subgroup of lower degree is ... In the primitive group G there is a subgroup H , transitive in the letters ..."

7. Geometry of Riemannian Spaces by Elie Cartan (1983)
"RIEMANNIAN SPACES ADMITTING A SIMPLY transitive GROUP OF DISPLACEMENTS 259. On account of the relations derived in the preceding sections, we can imagine ..."

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