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Definition of transitive in English:
transitive
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adjective
1Grammar
(of a verb or a sense or use of a verb) able to take a direct object (expressed or implied), e.g. saw in he saw the donkey.The opposite of intransitive‘Furthermore, the verbs are usually transitive, though occasionally they are used intransitively with a preposition like for, of, or about introducing the object.’- ‘But it is the rare transitive use of the verb, with the action sent on to an object, that catches the attention of philologists.’
- ‘However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.’
- ‘A grammar of Japanese will tell you that a transitive verb is positioned after its object, not before, because you couldn't guess that if no one told you.’
- ‘The first part of the utterance seems to be in English, except for the verb rub which has been given the Tok Pisin suffix - im, which marks transitive verbs.’
2Logic Mathematics
(of a relation) such that, if it applies between successive members of a sequence, it must also apply between any two members taken in order. For instance, if A is larger than B, and B is larger than C, then A is larger than C.‘The reason for this consequence is that identity is a transitive relation: that is to say, if a is identical with b and b is identical with c, then, of necessity, a is identical with c.’- ‘He also considered permutation groups of small degree, groups having a small number of conjugacy classes, multiply transitive groups, and characteristic subgroups of finite groups.’
- ‘The transitive property of equality says that if a = b and b = c, then a = c.’
- ‘When most individuals in the group differ in size, stable dominance relationships generally yield transitive hierarchies consistent with size.’
- ‘I glanced at Nick, who nodded, and the teacher went back to droning on and on about the transitive property in Geometry: easily the most boring class of the day.’
Pronunciation
noun
A transitive verb.
‘Are transitives conjoined with intransitives bad?’- ‘In the past tense configuration, however, the Pashto agreement system is ergative: verb - subject agreement with intransitives, but verb - object agreement with transitives.’
- ‘Unlike Romanian and English the two types of transitives in Japanese show no variation in the mapping from semantic to syntactic structure.’
- ‘Antitransitive verbs are derived from the transitives by rules which are similar to those used for the derivation of transitives from intransitives.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘transitory’): from late Latin transitivus, from transit- ‘gone across’ (see transit).
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