Transitory vs Transitive - What's the difference?
transitory | transitive |
Lasting only a short time; temporary.
* 1704 , , Section I - The Introduction,
* 1839 , , Chapter 38,
* 1922 , , Book Three, Chapter II: A Matter of Aesthetics,
(legal, of an action) That may be brought in any county; opposed to local .
Making a (l) or passage.
* (rfdate) , The Poet :
Affected by (l) of signification.
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(grammar, of a verb) Taking an (l) or objects.
* (rfdate) , Orthodoxy :
(set theory, 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 .
Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
As adjectives the difference between transitory and transitive
is that transitory is lasting only a short time; temporary while transitive is making a (l) or passage.transitory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Secondly, that the materials being very transitory , have suffered much from inclemencies of air, especially in these north-west regions.
- Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
- For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them--wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls' cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all.
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Synonyms
* See alsotransitive
English
Adjective
(-)- For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive , and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
- 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.
- The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
- Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
- "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.
