Word Finder - transitive

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Making a transit or passage.

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Affected by transference of signification.

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(grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.

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The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".

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(of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.

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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.

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(of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.

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(of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.

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.

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If the action is not transitive ` 0 ' is returned.

Less garden pathing for obligatorily transitive verbs was found only later, e.g. on the main verb.

Further down you will find 2 vt (verb transitive) meaning verbs which take a direct object, with examples of usage.

Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

That is, should Green Card read the source of all modules in the transitive closure of the module 's imports?

To overcome this problem he extends causal dependence to a transitive relation in the usual way by taking its ancestral.

Data for Transitive Groups has been taken from the current GAP distribution.

A relation (R) is serial when (I) it implies diversity, so that, if x has the relation R to y, x is diverse from y; (2) it is transitive, so that if x has the relation R to y, and y to z, then x has the relation R to z; (3) it has the property of connexity, so that if x and y are things to which any things bear the relation R, or which bear the relation R to any things, then either x is identical with y, or x has the relation R to y, or y has the relation R to x.

The grammatical form of shabbath suggests a transitive sense, "the divider," and apparently indicates the Sabbath as dividing the month.

The root has nothing to do with resting in the sense of enjoying repose; in transitive forms and applications it means to "sever," to "put an end to," and intransitively it means to "desist," to "come to an end."

Thus, after laying down as a general rule for declinable words that, when they refer to one and the same person, they must have the same case, gender and number, Priscian adds that when there are transitive words we may use different numbers, as doceo discipulos, docemus discipulum.