Ambition vs Transit - What's the difference?
ambition | transit |
(uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
* Burke
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
* Milton
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
The act of passing over, across, or through something.
* Burke
The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
(astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
(navigation) an imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
(British) a van. (rfex)
(Internet) to carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
To pass over, across or through something
To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction
(astronomy) To make a transit
As nouns the difference between ambition and transit
is that ambition is eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people while transit is the act of passing over, across, or through something.As verbs the difference between ambition and transit
is that ambition is to seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet while transit is to pass over, across or through something.ambition
English
Noun
(en-noun)- My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .
- the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
- My ambition is to own a helicopter.
- [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Quotations
(English Citations of "ambition")Verb
(en verb)- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
External links
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English
Noun
- In France you are now in the transit from one form of government to another.
- the transit of goods through a country