transitive
transitive Lexical Profile
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• adjective
(of a verb or a sense of a verb) Able to take or requiring a direct object to complete its meaning.
"In the sentence 'She read the book,' the verb 'read' is used in a transitive sense because 'the book' receives the action."
(of a relation between elements in mathematics or logic) Characterized by the property that if a first element bears a given relation to a second, and the second bears the same relation to a third, then the first also bears that relation to the third.
"Equality and 'greater than' are classic examples of transitive relations in algebra."
Characterized by or involving transition; intermediate or passing from one state to another.
"The art historian examined the transitive phase between the late Romanesque and early Gothic styles."
• noun
A transitive verb or a transitive construction in grammar.
"Many English verbs can function as both transitives and intransitives depending on the context."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Late Latin transitivus, meaning 'capable of passing over,' derived from Latin transitus, the past participle of transire ('to go across').