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transitiveness
(encz) | transitiveness, |
Transitiveness
(gcide) | Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
See Transient.]
1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
--Bacon.
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2. Effected by transference of signification.
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By far the greater part of the transitive or
derivative applications of words depend on casual
and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the
fancy. --Stewart.
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3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive
verb, for example, he holds the book.
[1913 Webster] -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. --
Tran"si*tive*ness, n.
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transitiveness
(wn) | transitiveness
n 1: the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb [syn:
transitivity, transitiveness] [ant: intransitiveness,
intransitivity] |
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intransitiveness
(encz) | intransitiveness, n: |
Transitiveness
(gcide) | Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
See Transient.]
1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
--Bacon.
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2. Effected by transference of signification.
[1913 Webster]
By far the greater part of the transitive or
derivative applications of words depend on casual
and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the
fancy. --Stewart.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive
verb, for example, he holds the book.
[1913 Webster] -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. --
Tran"si*tive*ness, n.
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intransitiveness
(wn) | intransitiveness
n 1: the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb
[syn: intransitivity, intransitiveness] [ant:
transitiveness, transitivity] |
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