transitive
transitive
Definition
tran·si·tive (tran′sə tiv, -zə-)
adjective
- Rare of, showing, or characterized by transition; transitional
- Gram. expressing an action thought of as passing over to and having an effect on some person or thing; taking a direct object: said of certain verbs
- Math. 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
Etymology: LL transitivus < L transitus: see transit
noun
a transitive verb
tran′·si·tively adverb
tran′·si·tive·ness noun or tran′·si·tiv′·ity
transitive
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- verb: Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
- closure: That is, should Green Card read the source of all modules in the transitive closure of the module's imports?
- relation: To overcome this problem he extends causal dependence to a transitive relation in the usual way by taking its ancestral.
- group: Data for Transitive Groups has been taken from the current GAP distribution.
- action: The verbal predicate of a transitive action became the dominant feature of its inner structure.
- construction: This complete chain of action accounts for the transitive construction in syntax.
Modifying Another Word
- not: If the action is not transitive ` 0 ' is returned.
- obligatorily: Less garden pathing for obligatorily transitive verbs was found only later, e.g. on the main verb.
- either: You will find that some verbs can be either transitive or intransitive depending on the context of their sentence.
Noun used with modifier
- verb: Further down you will find 2 vt ( verb transitive ) meaning verbs which take a direct object, with examples of usage.
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