Definition of transit in English:

transit

nounPlural transitsˈtrɑːnzɪtˈtranzɪtˈtransɪtˈtrænzət

mass noun

1The carrying of people or things from one place to another.
运送，运输，运载
a painting was damaged in transit
一幅画在运送中受损。
Example sentencesExamples
- I think that probably 10 years from now you'll actually be able to watch a shipment in transit.
- Full details of the scheme, which will involve strict controls on transportation to ensure that the animals are not infected in transit, are expected to be announced on Friday.
- While the shipment was in transit, the British approached the French and bought all 150,000.
- The tapes for the first week's filming went missing in transit to London.
- The ships carrying the materials have been in transit for some time and are due to arrive in the Irish Sea shortly.
- The shipment was in transit between Malaysia's Port Klang and Oakland in California.
- For example, one can envision such systems installed in cargo holds, operating while freight is in transit.
- They have been linked to nearly 3 million worth of robberies from cash in transit vans in recent years.
- A substantial portion of a shipment which was in transit to Canada was stolen, resulting in a loss to him of approximately $115,000.
- Furthermore, our stock was damaged in transit by the sub-contractor who sponsored the transport from Port Elizabeth to East London arranged by the committee.
- ‘The real problem is that the food the West pledged is not there, and not yet in transit in the kind of quantities needed,’ he says.
- Security firms rather than the banks are also liable for all cash in transit, more than €7m in the last 12 months.
- I've never had jet lag before, but it's not surprising I have it now since I'm on my fourth time zone in a fortnight, have lost an entire day somewhere and have spent several entire nights in transit.
- The 18-year-old qualifier was forced to play with a borrowed racket at the start of the tournament after hers were delayed in transit.
- Strip away the jargon, and you are talking about ambushing terrorist groups, raiding weapons shipments in transit, and rescuing hostages.
- Inquiries began after a number of relatively high value benefits books were reported as having been lost in transit and were not received by the those entitled to them.
- There is also the issue of goods damaged in transit, during transportation from Mayo to Dublin or to the ports.
- Existing industries also are suffering due to goods damaged in transit, therefore affecting their competitiveness and long-term sustainability.
- Behind the fences, one can catch glimpses of seemingly limitless stacks of containers - an immense accumulation of wealth in transit.
- With urban transportation, higher urban densities are critical in order to allow public transit and walking to be feasible urban transport options.
- They feature our exclusive fully adjustable elastic retention system, which keeps a passenger's head supported in an upright and comfortable position while sleeping in transit.
Synonyms
movement
transport, transportation, conveyance, shipment, haulage, freightage, carriage
moving, travel, travelling, journeying, passage, passing, transfer, crossing, progress
en route, on the journey, during transport, on the way, on the road, on the move, along/on the road, in motion
informal on the go
1. 1.1North American The conveyance of passengers on public transport.
  〈北美〉公共交通客运
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now it's home to a dense, multipurpose, taxpaying business well-served by public transit, which is supposedly what New Urbanists want.
  And most importantly, we always felt safe and comfortable, and we were out sometimes in public transit until close to midnight.
  In San Francisco, far more people ride transit, walk or bike to work than drive.
  You know, there's so much air time spent in this city on admonishing people to get out of their cars and take transit, cycle or walk.
  In the sixties, the blue-collar jobs that supported previous generations of urban blacks moved out of town, beyond the reach of public transit.
  No strategies have been implemented by the municipal government to discourage auto transport and promote public transit.
  I am really looking forward to returning this car to my folks and getting back on public transit.
  One gentleman is so dedicated to locating obscure dispensers that he actually uses city transit to visit remote suburban garage sales.
  The chief argument for public transit is that it's necessary for those who can't afford cars.
  So what precisely would be the difference between a search conducted to protect a library collection and a search to protect myself and my fellow passengers in the public transit system?
  They may have to provide services such as public transit and education incentives to lure workers to service jobs that an aging population will not be able to fill itself.
  Trucking, airline, and public transit workers also participated in the strike.
  He also wants to ease the region's transportation problems by increasing lanes and improving public transit.
  We try not to contribute by walking or taking public transit.
  Experts say that to be successful, public transit must be convenient and inexpensive, making it difficult to impose the types of strict security seen at airports.
  Public transit does not function in this kind of contrived environment.
  Traffic congestion and inadequate public transit make this the most polluted metro area in the country.
  In fact I would say foot travel and public transit would be the main ‘losers’ to cycles as it would mainly be relatively short haul trippers who would be impacted.
  And finally, since we are encouraging you to walk or take transit when possible, think about pedestrians.
  That's the only way a community can be created where people either take transit to work or walk to work.
2The action of passing through or across a place.
通过，经过
Guatemala is to have freedom of transit across Belize
Example sentencesExamples
- Eventually, transit passengers will be able to visit the Transit Authority web site to see if the route they are taking is running on-schedule, able to make any changes to plans that might be necessary.
- Areas visited included Charles de Gaulle airport, its immigration waiting areas, transit areas, and police and customs holding facilities.
- One of the special features of the bus terminus is the pedestrian subway connecting all platforms, ensuring safe transit of passengers.
- Although the guide only covers departures, it provides a useful steer on optimum transit times for passengers booking a connecting flight and could influence your choice of airport.
- They will be quarantined at the NAIA transit area and will not be allowed to leave the premises while waiting for their flight to South Korea.
- Those transit passengers are being subjected to more scrutiny, a more careful look being given specifically to their shoes and to their clothes and to their electronics.
- At that time, the international transit area was not regarded as French territory.
- The remaining 400,000 were transit - or stopover - passengers.
- The airport's transit area has the legal status of an extraterritorial zone.
- The U.S. can impose substantial restrictions on assistance to areas labeled as major drug-producing or transit areas.
- The officials said they have stepped up checks on passengers arriving or making transit stops at the airport.
- Nor does the Immigration Office know the whereabouts of dozens of foreign transit passengers who get lost at Korean airports every year.
1. 2.1Astronomy The passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet.
  〔天文〕凌日
  the transits of Mercury across the sun's disc
  Example sentencesExamples
  None of the astronomers who witnessed the past five transits of Venus are alive today, but they surely reflected on the rarity of what they saw - a reminder of the brevity of human life.
  Certainly this would make sense since Theon was both an observer and a mathematician who had written on astronomical topics such as conjunctions, eclipses, occultations and transits.
  He proposed using transits of Mercury to determine the distance of the Sun and therefore the scale of the solar system using Kepler's third law.
  Transits of Mercury are more common than transits of Venus, and occur every three to thirteen years.
  The story of the transits of Venus begins in 1627, just three years before the death of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler.
  The first to been seen was in 1639, and the time between transits was later predicted by Edmond Halley (the guy with the comet).
  Over a mere five occurrences these transits of Venus had shifted from events of astronomical importance to a sideshow with mere curiosity value.
  Only two planets can undergo transits of the Sun: Mercury and Venus.
  The transits of the Planet of Love happen in pairs, eight years apart every century.
  Unfortunately because the orbit of Venus is inclined to the earth's orbit by about three and a half degrees, these transits of Venus don't take place very often.
  In the nineteenth century, rare transits of Venus across the surface of the Sun were used to prove that Venus was enveloped in an atmosphere.
  In particular he was involved with timing the transits of Venus, a subject we discuss in Chapter 13.
  The next major figure in the history of transits of Venus was Edmond Halley, of comet fame.
  Many Archetypal Astrologers feel that all major cosmic events, such as eclipses and transits, are actually interactive in the most personal sense.
  In fact, Venus transits are rare and the last such event happened in 1882.
  The early transits were actually momentous occasions in the world of astronomy.
  Besides a couple of eclipses slated for May, sky watchers would witness transits of two planets over the disk of the Sun.
  Anyone who missed it this time will have another chance in eight years time - if they are willing to travel to Australia where another transit of Venus will be visible.
  Six Venus transits have occurred since the invention of the telescope, in 1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882.
  The circumstances of the transits of Venus repeat themselves with great exactness after a period of 243 years.
2. 2.2Astronomy The apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.
  〔天文〕中天
3. 2.3Astrology The passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.
  〔占星〕凌
  Example sentencesExamples
  This celestial transit will make you feel highly critical of an ongoing situation in your life.
  By the classical era the Sun's transit through the zodiac sign had taken precedence and Virgo became more directly perceived as a Maiden of fruition through the Harvest.
  When this aspect is active by transit, you may be easily irritated and argue at the slightest provocation.
  It seems to me like the awful transit of Saturn through Cancer brings much trouble in areas like the home, family, terminal periods of life, health and care, real estate - you know it well.
  All of my Gemini friends have had some unpleasant experiences with this last transit of Saturn through Gemini.
  In the same period transit Saturn in Taurus was making two passes over natal Pluto.

verbtransited, transiting, transitsˈtrɑːnzɪtˈtranzɪtˈtransɪtˈtrænzət

[with object]

1Pass across or through (an area)
经过，穿过（某一地区）
the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal
这些新巨轮太大了，过不了巴拿马运河。
Example sentencesExamples
- For she was allowed transit the airport even though she had no passport and was carrying a gun.
- Between 20 000 and 22 000 million cubic metres of gas will be transited via the pipeline a year.
- This will not apply to people transiting Bulgaria or who will leave the country within 24 hours.
- In some cases this would mean countries taking back immigrants who were not their own nationals but who may have transited their land.
- It's traditional to wish young people success as they transit from child to adult with the flip of a silk tassel.
- After the white light transits the measurement cell, a fiber-optic cable collects it and relays it to a spectral distribution system.
- The present link, which transits through the Panama Canal, includes port calls at Hong Kong, Shekou, Qingdao and Shanghai.
- Working day over night, he developed a way to securely to transit the money from the school's bank account to his own hands in cash.
- No recreational or commercial fishing is allowed, or diving or snorkeling, and vessels transiting the area must stow fishing gear.
- Arnold also had to battle geographic commanders who tried to hijack command of assets when they transited their specific areas.
- The old man was transiting the Atlantic by ship.
- The tags appeared on some high-priority cargo pallets transiting Shannon Airport aboard US-flagged aircraft last summer.
- According to him, there is no information about whether there are clients for the oil that will be transited.
- It was concluded also that 100bn cubic metres of natural gas could be transited via Bulgarian territory annually.
- It will be transited via Greece, but the fees that will be asked are not yet clear.
- We rendezvoused and transited to the working area.
- It will allow them to transit Jordan on their way to other destinations.
- In other areas as well, aircraft transited the Mediterranean and flew from the Pacific regions into the theater of operations.
- I watched beautiful red-throated divers and the wintering barnacle geese transit the abandoned Isle of Innismurray, a few miles offshore.
1. 1.1Astronomy (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian)
  〔天文〕（行星等天体）经过（另一天体，子午线）
  at the end of February Jupiter transits the meridian
  Example sentencesExamples
  More than 200 astronomy enthusiasts gathered at a Ribble Valley observatory for a rare sighting of the planet Mercury transiting the sun.
  However, eclipse effects are not usually felt until there is some sort of trigger - a planet transiting over the point, for instance.
  During this event, Venus shall transit the face of the sun for about five hours.
  When the planet transits the star, it blocks a small amount of the star's light; it's essentially a miniature solar eclipse.
  Mercury and Venus are the only planets that orbit closer to the Sun than the Earth, so they are the only planets that can transit the Sun.
  People won't really see a planet transiting the Sun.
2. 1.2Astrology (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).
  〔占星〕凌
  Example sentencesExamples
  With Pluto transiting my 4th house, I can see that a phase of my life has come to a close, but I feel quite paralysed and can't see what changes to make.
  When Saturn transits the sign of karka or cancer and again when it crosses scorpio or vrischik, the individual will experience the panoti or adhayia of Saturn.
  Saturn transits each sign in about 29.5 months and crosses three signs in about 7 and a half years, hence the reference to sadesati.
  Of course, there's a saying that when Jupiter transits three signs in a year, there will be lots of floods - and aren't we having that!
  Mars is transiting his natal chart in Pisces, the sign of deception, and also in the 11 th house, the house of friends.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire 'go across'.

Transit initially meant ‘passage from one place to another’. It is from Latin transire ‘go across’. The grammatical term transitive (late 16th century) for verbs that ‘go across’ to an object is from the same source, as are trance (Middle English), and transient (Late Middle English).

Rhymes

Narragansett

Definition of transit in US English:

transit

nounˈtranzətˈtrænzət

1The carrying of people, goods, or materials from one place to another.
运送，运输，运载
a painting was damaged in transit
一幅画在运送中受损。
Example sentencesExamples
- Furthermore, our stock was damaged in transit by the sub-contractor who sponsored the transport from Port Elizabeth to East London arranged by the committee.
- Existing industries also are suffering due to goods damaged in transit, therefore affecting their competitiveness and long-term sustainability.
- With urban transportation, higher urban densities are critical in order to allow public transit and walking to be feasible urban transport options.
- The shipment was in transit between Malaysia's Port Klang and Oakland in California.
- The 18-year-old qualifier was forced to play with a borrowed racket at the start of the tournament after hers were delayed in transit.
- They feature our exclusive fully adjustable elastic retention system, which keeps a passenger's head supported in an upright and comfortable position while sleeping in transit.
- I've never had jet lag before, but it's not surprising I have it now since I'm on my fourth time zone in a fortnight, have lost an entire day somewhere and have spent several entire nights in transit.
- Security firms rather than the banks are also liable for all cash in transit, more than €7m in the last 12 months.
- Inquiries began after a number of relatively high value benefits books were reported as having been lost in transit and were not received by the those entitled to them.
- Behind the fences, one can catch glimpses of seemingly limitless stacks of containers - an immense accumulation of wealth in transit.
- The ships carrying the materials have been in transit for some time and are due to arrive in the Irish Sea shortly.
- Strip away the jargon, and you are talking about ambushing terrorist groups, raiding weapons shipments in transit, and rescuing hostages.
- A substantial portion of a shipment which was in transit to Canada was stolen, resulting in a loss to him of approximately $115,000.
- I think that probably 10 years from now you'll actually be able to watch a shipment in transit.
- There is also the issue of goods damaged in transit, during transportation from Mayo to Dublin or to the ports.
- While the shipment was in transit, the British approached the French and bought all 150,000.
- They have been linked to nearly 3 million worth of robberies from cash in transit vans in recent years.
- The tapes for the first week's filming went missing in transit to London.
- ‘The real problem is that the food the West pledged is not there, and not yet in transit in the kind of quantities needed,’ he says.
- Full details of the scheme, which will involve strict controls on transportation to ensure that the animals are not infected in transit, are expected to be announced on Friday.
- For example, one can envision such systems installed in cargo holds, operating while freight is in transit.
Synonyms
movement
en route, on the journey, during transport, on the way, on the road, on the move, along the road, in motion
1. 1.1North American The conveyance of passengers on public transportation.
  〈北美〉公共交通客运
  Example sentencesExamples
  Trucking, airline, and public transit workers also participated in the strike.
  That's the only way a community can be created where people either take transit to work or walk to work.
  In San Francisco, far more people ride transit, walk or bike to work than drive.
  So what precisely would be the difference between a search conducted to protect a library collection and a search to protect myself and my fellow passengers in the public transit system?
  In the sixties, the blue-collar jobs that supported previous generations of urban blacks moved out of town, beyond the reach of public transit.
  The chief argument for public transit is that it's necessary for those who can't afford cars.
  Public transit does not function in this kind of contrived environment.
  No strategies have been implemented by the municipal government to discourage auto transport and promote public transit.
  One gentleman is so dedicated to locating obscure dispensers that he actually uses city transit to visit remote suburban garage sales.
  And most importantly, we always felt safe and comfortable, and we were out sometimes in public transit until close to midnight.
  I am really looking forward to returning this car to my folks and getting back on public transit.
  Experts say that to be successful, public transit must be convenient and inexpensive, making it difficult to impose the types of strict security seen at airports.
  They may have to provide services such as public transit and education incentives to lure workers to service jobs that an aging population will not be able to fill itself.
  Traffic congestion and inadequate public transit make this the most polluted metro area in the country.
  He also wants to ease the region's transportation problems by increasing lanes and improving public transit.
  And finally, since we are encouraging you to walk or take transit when possible, think about pedestrians.
  Now it's home to a dense, multipurpose, taxpaying business well-served by public transit, which is supposedly what New Urbanists want.
  We try not to contribute by walking or taking public transit.
  You know, there's so much air time spent in this city on admonishing people to get out of their cars and take transit, cycle or walk.
  In fact I would say foot travel and public transit would be the main ‘losers’ to cycles as it would mainly be relatively short haul trippers who would be impacted.
2An act of passing through or across a place.
通过，经过
the first west-to-east transit of the Northwest Passage
西北航道的首次由西向东穿越航行。
as modifier a transit airline passenger
一位转机乘客。
Example sentencesExamples
- The U.S. can impose substantial restrictions on assistance to areas labeled as major drug-producing or transit areas.
- Eventually, transit passengers will be able to visit the Transit Authority web site to see if the route they are taking is running on-schedule, able to make any changes to plans that might be necessary.
- The officials said they have stepped up checks on passengers arriving or making transit stops at the airport.
- The remaining 400,000 were transit - or stopover - passengers.
- At that time, the international transit area was not regarded as French territory.
- Although the guide only covers departures, it provides a useful steer on optimum transit times for passengers booking a connecting flight and could influence your choice of airport.
- Nor does the Immigration Office know the whereabouts of dozens of foreign transit passengers who get lost at Korean airports every year.
- The airport's transit area has the legal status of an extraterritorial zone.
- Those transit passengers are being subjected to more scrutiny, a more careful look being given specifically to their shoes and to their clothes and to their electronics.
- Areas visited included Charles de Gaulle airport, its immigration waiting areas, transit areas, and police and customs holding facilities.
- One of the special features of the bus terminus is the pedestrian subway connecting all platforms, ensuring safe transit of passengers.
- They will be quarantined at the NAIA transit area and will not be allowed to leave the premises while waiting for their flight to South Korea.
1. 2.1Astronomy The passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet.
  〔天文〕凌日
  Example sentencesExamples
  None of the astronomers who witnessed the past five transits of Venus are alive today, but they surely reflected on the rarity of what they saw - a reminder of the brevity of human life.
  Many Archetypal Astrologers feel that all major cosmic events, such as eclipses and transits, are actually interactive in the most personal sense.
  He proposed using transits of Mercury to determine the distance of the Sun and therefore the scale of the solar system using Kepler's third law.
  Unfortunately because the orbit of Venus is inclined to the earth's orbit by about three and a half degrees, these transits of Venus don't take place very often.
  In the nineteenth century, rare transits of Venus across the surface of the Sun were used to prove that Venus was enveloped in an atmosphere.
  The early transits were actually momentous occasions in the world of astronomy.
  The circumstances of the transits of Venus repeat themselves with great exactness after a period of 243 years.
  Besides a couple of eclipses slated for May, sky watchers would witness transits of two planets over the disk of the Sun.
  Certainly this would make sense since Theon was both an observer and a mathematician who had written on astronomical topics such as conjunctions, eclipses, occultations and transits.
  Anyone who missed it this time will have another chance in eight years time - if they are willing to travel to Australia where another transit of Venus will be visible.
  In fact, Venus transits are rare and the last such event happened in 1882.
  Transits of Mercury are more common than transits of Venus, and occur every three to thirteen years.
  The first to been seen was in 1639, and the time between transits was later predicted by Edmond Halley (the guy with the comet).
  The story of the transits of Venus begins in 1627, just three years before the death of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler.
  Only two planets can undergo transits of the Sun: Mercury and Venus.
  The transits of the Planet of Love happen in pairs, eight years apart every century.
  The next major figure in the history of transits of Venus was Edmond Halley, of comet fame.
  Over a mere five occurrences these transits of Venus had shifted from events of astronomical importance to a sideshow with mere curiosity value.
  In particular he was involved with timing the transits of Venus, a subject we discuss in Chapter 13.
  Six Venus transits have occurred since the invention of the telescope, in 1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882.
2. 2.2Astronomy The apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.
  〔天文〕中天
3. 2.3Astrology The passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.
  〔占星〕凌
  Example sentencesExamples
  By the classical era the Sun's transit through the zodiac sign had taken precedence and Virgo became more directly perceived as a Maiden of fruition through the Harvest.
  This celestial transit will make you feel highly critical of an ongoing situation in your life.
  In the same period transit Saturn in Taurus was making two passes over natal Pluto.
  All of my Gemini friends have had some unpleasant experiences with this last transit of Saturn through Gemini.
  When this aspect is active by transit, you may be easily irritated and argue at the slightest provocation.
  It seems to me like the awful transit of Saturn through Cancer brings much trouble in areas like the home, family, terminal periods of life, health and care, real estate - you know it well.
3informal A tool used by surveyors to measure horizontal angles.
Example sentencesExamples
- As they began setting it up she recognised it as surveying tools - transit and pole and chain.
- The pros use a surveying tool called a transit for leveling work like this.
- As the Aberdeen ranges were not yet ready, he fired the gun across an empty field and measured the range with a common surveyor's transit.
- For many years, the optical transit was the surveyor's tool of choice to lay out property lines and building sites.

verbˈtranzətˈtrænzət

[with object]

1Pass across or through (an area)
经过，穿过（某一地区）
the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal
这些新巨轮太大了，过不了巴拿马运河。
Example sentencesExamples
- Arnold also had to battle geographic commanders who tried to hijack command of assets when they transited their specific areas.
- It's traditional to wish young people success as they transit from child to adult with the flip of a silk tassel.
- It will be transited via Greece, but the fees that will be asked are not yet clear.
- After the white light transits the measurement cell, a fiber-optic cable collects it and relays it to a spectral distribution system.
- For she was allowed transit the airport even though she had no passport and was carrying a gun.
- It will allow them to transit Jordan on their way to other destinations.
- It was concluded also that 100bn cubic metres of natural gas could be transited via Bulgarian territory annually.
- Between 20 000 and 22 000 million cubic metres of gas will be transited via the pipeline a year.
- The present link, which transits through the Panama Canal, includes port calls at Hong Kong, Shekou, Qingdao and Shanghai.
- The tags appeared on some high-priority cargo pallets transiting Shannon Airport aboard US-flagged aircraft last summer.
- Working day over night, he developed a way to securely to transit the money from the school's bank account to his own hands in cash.
- We rendezvoused and transited to the working area.
- I watched beautiful red-throated divers and the wintering barnacle geese transit the abandoned Isle of Innismurray, a few miles offshore.
- In other areas as well, aircraft transited the Mediterranean and flew from the Pacific regions into the theater of operations.
- According to him, there is no information about whether there are clients for the oil that will be transited.
- The old man was transiting the Atlantic by ship.
- In some cases this would mean countries taking back immigrants who were not their own nationals but who may have transited their land.
- This will not apply to people transiting Bulgaria or who will leave the country within 24 hours.
- No recreational or commercial fishing is allowed, or diving or snorkeling, and vessels transiting the area must stow fishing gear.
1. 1.1Astronomy (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (a meridian or the face of another body).
  〔天文〕（行星等天体）经过（另一天体，子午线）
  Example sentencesExamples
  More than 200 astronomy enthusiasts gathered at a Ribble Valley observatory for a rare sighting of the planet Mercury transiting the sun.
  When the planet transits the star, it blocks a small amount of the star's light; it's essentially a miniature solar eclipse.
  However, eclipse effects are not usually felt until there is some sort of trigger - a planet transiting over the point, for instance.
  Mercury and Venus are the only planets that orbit closer to the Sun than the Earth, so they are the only planets that can transit the Sun.
  During this event, Venus shall transit the face of the sun for about five hours.
  People won't really see a planet transiting the Sun.
2. 1.2Astrology (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).
  〔占星〕凌
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mars is transiting his natal chart in Pisces, the sign of deception, and also in the 11 th house, the house of friends.
  Of course, there's a saying that when Jupiter transits three signs in a year, there will be lots of floods - and aren't we having that!
  With Pluto transiting my 4th house, I can see that a phase of my life has come to a close, but I feel quite paralysed and can't see what changes to make.
  Saturn transits each sign in about 29.5 months and crosses three signs in about 7 and a half years, hence the reference to sadesati.
  When Saturn transits the sign of karka or cancer and again when it crosses scorpio or vrischik, the individual will experience the panoti or adhayia of Saturn.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire ‘go across’.

单词	transit
释义	Definition of transit in English: transit nounPlural transitsˈtrɑːnzɪtˈtranzɪtˈtransɪtˈtrænzət mass noun 1The carrying of people or things from one place to another. 运送，运输，运载 a painting was damaged in transit 一幅画在运送中受损。 Example sentencesExamples I think that probably 10 years from now you'll actually be able to watch a shipment in transit. Full details of the scheme, which will involve strict controls on transportation to ensure that the animals are not infected in transit, are expected to be announced on Friday. While the shipment was in transit, the British approached the French and bought all 150,000. The tapes for the first week's filming went missing in transit to London. The ships carrying the materials have been in transit for some time and are due to arrive in the Irish Sea shortly. The shipment was in transit between Malaysia's Port Klang and Oakland in California. For example, one can envision such systems installed in cargo holds, operating while freight is in transit. They have been linked to nearly 3 million worth of robberies from cash in transit vans in recent years. A substantial portion of a shipment which was in transit to Canada was stolen, resulting in a loss to him of approximately $115,000. Furthermore, our stock was damaged in transit by the sub-contractor who sponsored the transport from Port Elizabeth to East London arranged by the committee. ‘The real problem is that the food the West pledged is not there, and not yet in transit in the kind of quantities needed,’ he says. Security firms rather than the banks are also liable for all cash in transit, more than €7m in the last 12 months. I've never had jet lag before, but it's not surprising I have it now since I'm on my fourth time zone in a fortnight, have lost an entire day somewhere and have spent several entire nights in transit. The 18-year-old qualifier was forced to play with a borrowed racket at the start of the tournament after hers were delayed in transit. Strip away the jargon, and you are talking about ambushing terrorist groups, raiding weapons shipments in transit, and rescuing hostages. Inquiries began after a number of relatively high value benefits books were reported as having been lost in transit and were not received by the those entitled to them. There is also the issue of goods damaged in transit, during transportation from Mayo to Dublin or to the ports. Existing industries also are suffering due to goods damaged in transit, therefore affecting their competitiveness and long-term sustainability. Behind the fences, one can catch glimpses of seemingly limitless stacks of containers - an immense accumulation of wealth in transit. With urban transportation, higher urban densities are critical in order to allow public transit and walking to be feasible urban transport options. They feature our exclusive fully adjustable elastic retention system, which keeps a passenger's head supported in an upright and comfortable position while sleeping in transit. Synonyms movement transport, transportation, conveyance, shipment, haulage, freightage, carriage moving, travel, travelling, journeying, passage, passing, transfer, crossing, progress en route, on the journey, during transport, on the way, on the road, on the move, along/on the road, in motion informal on the go 1.1North American The conveyance of passengers on public transport. 〈北美〉公共交通客运 Example sentencesExamples Now it's home to a dense, multipurpose, taxpaying business well-served by public transit, which is supposedly what New Urbanists want. And most importantly, we always felt safe and comfortable, and we were out sometimes in public transit until close to midnight. In San Francisco, far more people ride transit, walk or bike to work than drive. You know, there's so much air time spent in this city on admonishing people to get out of their cars and take transit, cycle or walk. In the sixties, the blue-collar jobs that supported previous generations of urban blacks moved out of town, beyond the reach of public transit. No strategies have been implemented by the municipal government to discourage auto transport and promote public transit. I am really looking forward to returning this car to my folks and getting back on public transit. One gentleman is so dedicated to locating obscure dispensers that he actually uses city transit to visit remote suburban garage sales. The chief argument for public transit is that it's necessary for those who can't afford cars. So what precisely would be the difference between a search conducted to protect a library collection and a search to protect myself and my fellow passengers in the public transit system? They may have to provide services such as public transit and education incentives to lure workers to service jobs that an aging population will not be able to fill itself. Trucking, airline, and public transit workers also participated in the strike. He also wants to ease the region's transportation problems by increasing lanes and improving public transit. We try not to contribute by walking or taking public transit. Experts say that to be successful, public transit must be convenient and inexpensive, making it difficult to impose the types of strict security seen at airports. Public transit does not function in this kind of contrived environment. Traffic congestion and inadequate public transit make this the most polluted metro area in the country. In fact I would say foot travel and public transit would be the main ‘losers’ to cycles as it would mainly be relatively short haul trippers who would be impacted. And finally, since we are encouraging you to walk or take transit when possible, think about pedestrians. That's the only way a community can be created where people either take transit to work or walk to work. 2The action of passing through or across a place. 通过，经过 Guatemala is to have freedom of transit across Belize Example sentencesExamples Eventually, transit passengers will be able to visit the Transit Authority web site to see if the route they are taking is running on-schedule, able to make any changes to plans that might be necessary. Areas visited included Charles de Gaulle airport, its immigration waiting areas, transit areas, and police and customs holding facilities. One of the special features of the bus terminus is the pedestrian subway connecting all platforms, ensuring safe transit of passengers. Although the guide only covers departures, it provides a useful steer on optimum transit times for passengers booking a connecting flight and could influence your choice of airport. They will be quarantined at the NAIA transit area and will not be allowed to leave the premises while waiting for their flight to South Korea. Those transit passengers are being subjected to more scrutiny, a more careful look being given specifically to their shoes and to their clothes and to their electronics. At that time, the international transit area was not regarded as French territory. The remaining 400,000 were transit - or stopover - passengers. The airport's transit area has the legal status of an extraterritorial zone. The U.S. can impose substantial restrictions on assistance to areas labeled as major drug-producing or transit areas. The officials said they have stepped up checks on passengers arriving or making transit stops at the airport. Nor does the Immigration Office know the whereabouts of dozens of foreign transit passengers who get lost at Korean airports every year. 2.1Astronomy The passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet. 〔天文〕凌日 the transits of Mercury across the sun's disc Example sentencesExamples None of the astronomers who witnessed the past five transits of Venus are alive today, but they surely reflected on the rarity of what they saw - a reminder of the brevity of human life. Certainly this would make sense since Theon was both an observer and a mathematician who had written on astronomical topics such as conjunctions, eclipses, occultations and transits. He proposed using transits of Mercury to determine the distance of the Sun and therefore the scale of the solar system using Kepler's third law. Transits of Mercury are more common than transits of Venus, and occur every three to thirteen years. The story of the transits of Venus begins in 1627, just three years before the death of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. The first to been seen was in 1639, and the time between transits was later predicted by Edmond Halley (the guy with the comet). Over a mere five occurrences these transits of Venus had shifted from events of astronomical importance to a sideshow with mere curiosity value. Only two planets can undergo transits of the Sun: Mercury and Venus. The transits of the Planet of Love happen in pairs, eight years apart every century. Unfortunately because the orbit of Venus is inclined to the earth's orbit by about three and a half degrees, these transits of Venus don't take place very often. In the nineteenth century, rare transits of Venus across the surface of the Sun were used to prove that Venus was enveloped in an atmosphere. In particular he was involved with timing the transits of Venus, a subject we discuss in Chapter 13. The next major figure in the history of transits of Venus was Edmond Halley, of comet fame. Many Archetypal Astrologers feel that all major cosmic events, such as eclipses and transits, are actually interactive in the most personal sense. In fact, Venus transits are rare and the last such event happened in 1882. The early transits were actually momentous occasions in the world of astronomy. Besides a couple of eclipses slated for May, sky watchers would witness transits of two planets over the disk of the Sun. Anyone who missed it this time will have another chance in eight years time - if they are willing to travel to Australia where another transit of Venus will be visible. Six Venus transits have occurred since the invention of the telescope, in 1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882. The circumstances of the transits of Venus repeat themselves with great exactness after a period of 243 years. 2.2Astronomy The apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place. 〔天文〕中天 2.3Astrology The passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart. 〔占星〕凌 Example sentencesExamples This celestial transit will make you feel highly critical of an ongoing situation in your life. By the classical era the Sun's transit through the zodiac sign had taken precedence and Virgo became more directly perceived as a Maiden of fruition through the Harvest. When this aspect is active by transit, you may be easily irritated and argue at the slightest provocation. It seems to me like the awful transit of Saturn through Cancer brings much trouble in areas like the home, family, terminal periods of life, health and care, real estate - you know it well. All of my Gemini friends have had some unpleasant experiences with this last transit of Saturn through Gemini. In the same period transit Saturn in Taurus was making two passes over natal Pluto. verbtransited, transiting, transitsˈtrɑːnzɪtˈtranzɪtˈtransɪtˈtrænzət [with object] 1Pass across or through (an area) 经过，穿过（某一地区） the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal 这些新巨轮太大了，过不了巴拿马运河。 Example sentencesExamples For she was allowed transit the airport even though she had no passport and was carrying a gun. Between 20 000 and 22 000 million cubic metres of gas will be transited via the pipeline a year. This will not apply to people transiting Bulgaria or who will leave the country within 24 hours. In some cases this would mean countries taking back immigrants who were not their own nationals but who may have transited their land. It's traditional to wish young people success as they transit from child to adult with the flip of a silk tassel. After the white light transits the measurement cell, a fiber-optic cable collects it and relays it to a spectral distribution system. The present link, which transits through the Panama Canal, includes port calls at Hong Kong, Shekou, Qingdao and Shanghai. Working day over night, he developed a way to securely to transit the money from the school's bank account to his own hands in cash. No recreational or commercial fishing is allowed, or diving or snorkeling, and vessels transiting the area must stow fishing gear. Arnold also had to battle geographic commanders who tried to hijack command of assets when they transited their specific areas. The old man was transiting the Atlantic by ship. The tags appeared on some high-priority cargo pallets transiting Shannon Airport aboard US-flagged aircraft last summer. According to him, there is no information about whether there are clients for the oil that will be transited. It was concluded also that 100bn cubic metres of natural gas could be transited via Bulgarian territory annually. It will be transited via Greece, but the fees that will be asked are not yet clear. We rendezvoused and transited to the working area. It will allow them to transit Jordan on their way to other destinations. In other areas as well, aircraft transited the Mediterranean and flew from the Pacific regions into the theater of operations. I watched beautiful red-throated divers and the wintering barnacle geese transit the abandoned Isle of Innismurray, a few miles offshore. 1.1Astronomy (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian) 〔天文〕（行星等天体）经过（另一天体，子午线） at the end of February Jupiter transits the meridian Example sentencesExamples More than 200 astronomy enthusiasts gathered at a Ribble Valley observatory for a rare sighting of the planet Mercury transiting the sun. However, eclipse effects are not usually felt until there is some sort of trigger - a planet transiting over the point, for instance. During this event, Venus shall transit the face of the sun for about five hours. When the planet transits the star, it blocks a small amount of the star's light; it's essentially a miniature solar eclipse. Mercury and Venus are the only planets that orbit closer to the Sun than the Earth, so they are the only planets that can transit the Sun. People won't really see a planet transiting the Sun. 1.2Astrology (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart). 〔占星〕凌 Example sentencesExamples With Pluto transiting my 4th house, I can see that a phase of my life has come to a close, but I feel quite paralysed and can't see what changes to make. When Saturn transits the sign of karka or cancer and again when it crosses scorpio or vrischik, the individual will experience the panoti or adhayia of Saturn. Saturn transits each sign in about 29.5 months and crosses three signs in about 7 and a half years, hence the reference to sadesati. Of course, there's a saying that when Jupiter transits three signs in a year, there will be lots of floods - and aren't we having that! Mars is transiting his natal chart in Pisces, the sign of deception, and also in the 11 th house, the house of friends. Origin Late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire 'go across'. Transit initially meant ‘passage from one place to another’. It is from Latin transire ‘go across’. The grammatical term transitive (late 16th century) for verbs that ‘go across’ to an object is from the same source, as are trance (Middle English), and transient (Late Middle English). Rhymes Narragansett Definition of transit in US English: transit nounˈtranzətˈtrænzət 1The carrying of people, goods, or materials from one place to another. 运送，运输，运载 a painting was damaged in transit 一幅画在运送中受损。 Example sentencesExamples Furthermore, our stock was damaged in transit by the sub-contractor who sponsored the transport from Port Elizabeth to East London arranged by the committee. Existing industries also are suffering due to goods damaged in transit, therefore affecting their competitiveness and long-term sustainability. With urban transportation, higher urban densities are critical in order to allow public transit and walking to be feasible urban transport options. The shipment was in transit between Malaysia's Port Klang and Oakland in California. The 18-year-old qualifier was forced to play with a borrowed racket at the start of the tournament after hers were delayed in transit. They feature our exclusive fully adjustable elastic retention system, which keeps a passenger's head supported in an upright and comfortable position while sleeping in transit. I've never had jet lag before, but it's not surprising I have it now since I'm on my fourth time zone in a fortnight, have lost an entire day somewhere and have spent several entire nights in transit. Security firms rather than the banks are also liable for all cash in transit, more than €7m in the last 12 months. Inquiries began after a number of relatively high value benefits books were reported as having been lost in transit and were not received by the those entitled to them. Behind the fences, one can catch glimpses of seemingly limitless stacks of containers - an immense accumulation of wealth in transit. The ships carrying the materials have been in transit for some time and are due to arrive in the Irish Sea shortly. Strip away the jargon, and you are talking about ambushing terrorist groups, raiding weapons shipments in transit, and rescuing hostages. A substantial portion of a shipment which was in transit to Canada was stolen, resulting in a loss to him of approximately $115,000. I think that probably 10 years from now you'll actually be able to watch a shipment in transit. There is also the issue of goods damaged in transit, during transportation from Mayo to Dublin or to the ports. While the shipment was in transit, the British approached the French and bought all 150,000. They have been linked to nearly 3 million worth of robberies from cash in transit vans in recent years. The tapes for the first week's filming went missing in transit to London. ‘The real problem is that the food the West pledged is not there, and not yet in transit in the kind of quantities needed,’ he says. Full details of the scheme, which will involve strict controls on transportation to ensure that the animals are not infected in transit, are expected to be announced on Friday. For example, one can envision such systems installed in cargo holds, operating while freight is in transit. Synonyms movement en route, on the journey, during transport, on the way, on the road, on the move, along the road, in motion 1.1North American The conveyance of passengers on public transportation. 〈北美〉公共交通客运 Example sentencesExamples Trucking, airline, and public transit workers also participated in the strike. That's the only way a community can be created where people either take transit to work or walk to work. In San Francisco, far more people ride transit, walk or bike to work than drive. So what precisely would be the difference between a search conducted to protect a library collection and a search to protect myself and my fellow passengers in the public transit system? In the sixties, the blue-collar jobs that supported previous generations of urban blacks moved out of town, beyond the reach of public transit. The chief argument for public transit is that it's necessary for those who can't afford cars. Public transit does not function in this kind of contrived environment. No strategies have been implemented by the municipal government to discourage auto transport and promote public transit. One gentleman is so dedicated to locating obscure dispensers that he actually uses city transit to visit remote suburban garage sales. And most importantly, we always felt safe and comfortable, and we were out sometimes in public transit until close to midnight. I am really looking forward to returning this car to my folks and getting back on public transit. Experts say that to be successful, public transit must be convenient and inexpensive, making it difficult to impose the types of strict security seen at airports. They may have to provide services such as public transit and education incentives to lure workers to service jobs that an aging population will not be able to fill itself. Traffic congestion and inadequate public transit make this the most polluted metro area in the country. He also wants to ease the region's transportation problems by increasing lanes and improving public transit. And finally, since we are encouraging you to walk or take transit when possible, think about pedestrians. Now it's home to a dense, multipurpose, taxpaying business well-served by public transit, which is supposedly what New Urbanists want. We try not to contribute by walking or taking public transit. You know, there's so much air time spent in this city on admonishing people to get out of their cars and take transit, cycle or walk. In fact I would say foot travel and public transit would be the main ‘losers’ to cycles as it would mainly be relatively short haul trippers who would be impacted. 2An act of passing through or across a place. 通过，经过 the first west-to-east transit of the Northwest Passage 西北航道的首次由西向东穿越航行。 as modifier a transit airline passenger 一位转机乘客。 Example sentencesExamples The U.S. can impose substantial restrictions on assistance to areas labeled as major drug-producing or transit areas. Eventually, transit passengers will be able to visit the Transit Authority web site to see if the route they are taking is running on-schedule, able to make any changes to plans that might be necessary. The officials said they have stepped up checks on passengers arriving or making transit stops at the airport. The remaining 400,000 were transit - or stopover - passengers. At that time, the international transit area was not regarded as French territory. Although the guide only covers departures, it provides a useful steer on optimum transit times for passengers booking a connecting flight and could influence your choice of airport. Nor does the Immigration Office know the whereabouts of dozens of foreign transit passengers who get lost at Korean airports every year. The airport's transit area has the legal status of an extraterritorial zone. Those transit passengers are being subjected to more scrutiny, a more careful look being given specifically to their shoes and to their clothes and to their electronics. Areas visited included Charles de Gaulle airport, its immigration waiting areas, transit areas, and police and customs holding facilities. One of the special features of the bus terminus is the pedestrian subway connecting all platforms, ensuring safe transit of passengers. They will be quarantined at the NAIA transit area and will not be allowed to leave the premises while waiting for their flight to South Korea. 2.1Astronomy The passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet. 〔天文〕凌日 Example sentencesExamples None of the astronomers who witnessed the past five transits of Venus are alive today, but they surely reflected on the rarity of what they saw - a reminder of the brevity of human life. Many Archetypal Astrologers feel that all major cosmic events, such as eclipses and transits, are actually interactive in the most personal sense. He proposed using transits of Mercury to determine the distance of the Sun and therefore the scale of the solar system using Kepler's third law. Unfortunately because the orbit of Venus is inclined to the earth's orbit by about three and a half degrees, these transits of Venus don't take place very often. In the nineteenth century, rare transits of Venus across the surface of the Sun were used to prove that Venus was enveloped in an atmosphere. The early transits were actually momentous occasions in the world of astronomy. The circumstances of the transits of Venus repeat themselves with great exactness after a period of 243 years. Besides a couple of eclipses slated for May, sky watchers would witness transits of two planets over the disk of the Sun. Certainly this would make sense since Theon was both an observer and a mathematician who had written on astronomical topics such as conjunctions, eclipses, occultations and transits. Anyone who missed it this time will have another chance in eight years time - if they are willing to travel to Australia where another transit of Venus will be visible. In fact, Venus transits are rare and the last such event happened in 1882. Transits of Mercury are more common than transits of Venus, and occur every three to thirteen years. The first to been seen was in 1639, and the time between transits was later predicted by Edmond Halley (the guy with the comet). The story of the transits of Venus begins in 1627, just three years before the death of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Only two planets can undergo transits of the Sun: Mercury and Venus. The transits of the Planet of Love happen in pairs, eight years apart every century. The next major figure in the history of transits of Venus was Edmond Halley, of comet fame. Over a mere five occurrences these transits of Venus had shifted from events of astronomical importance to a sideshow with mere curiosity value. In particular he was involved with timing the transits of Venus, a subject we discuss in Chapter 13. Six Venus transits have occurred since the invention of the telescope, in 1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882. 2.2Astronomy The apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place. 〔天文〕中天 2.3Astrology The passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart. 〔占星〕凌 Example sentencesExamples By the classical era the Sun's transit through the zodiac sign had taken precedence and Virgo became more directly perceived as a Maiden of fruition through the Harvest. This celestial transit will make you feel highly critical of an ongoing situation in your life. In the same period transit Saturn in Taurus was making two passes over natal Pluto. All of my Gemini friends have had some unpleasant experiences with this last transit of Saturn through Gemini. When this aspect is active by transit, you may be easily irritated and argue at the slightest provocation. It seems to me like the awful transit of Saturn through Cancer brings much trouble in areas like the home, family, terminal periods of life, health and care, real estate - you know it well. 3informal A tool used by surveyors to measure horizontal angles. Example sentencesExamples As they began setting it up she recognised it as surveying tools - transit and pole and chain. The pros use a surveying tool called a transit for leveling work like this. As the Aberdeen ranges were not yet ready, he fired the gun across an empty field and measured the range with a common surveyor's transit. For many years, the optical transit was the surveyor's tool of choice to lay out property lines and building sites. verbˈtranzətˈtrænzət [with object] 1Pass across or through (an area) 经过，穿过（某一地区） the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal 这些新巨轮太大了，过不了巴拿马运河。 Example sentencesExamples Arnold also had to battle geographic commanders who tried to hijack command of assets when they transited their specific areas. It's traditional to wish young people success as they transit from child to adult with the flip of a silk tassel. It will be transited via Greece, but the fees that will be asked are not yet clear. After the white light transits the measurement cell, a fiber-optic cable collects it and relays it to a spectral distribution system. For she was allowed transit the airport even though she had no passport and was carrying a gun. It will allow them to transit Jordan on their way to other destinations. It was concluded also that 100bn cubic metres of natural gas could be transited via Bulgarian territory annually. Between 20 000 and 22 000 million cubic metres of gas will be transited via the pipeline a year. The present link, which transits through the Panama Canal, includes port calls at Hong Kong, Shekou, Qingdao and Shanghai. The tags appeared on some high-priority cargo pallets transiting Shannon Airport aboard US-flagged aircraft last summer. Working day over night, he developed a way to securely to transit the money from the school's bank account to his own hands in cash. We rendezvoused and transited to the working area. I watched beautiful red-throated divers and the wintering barnacle geese transit the abandoned Isle of Innismurray, a few miles offshore. In other areas as well, aircraft transited the Mediterranean and flew from the Pacific regions into the theater of operations. According to him, there is no information about whether there are clients for the oil that will be transited. The old man was transiting the Atlantic by ship. In some cases this would mean countries taking back immigrants who were not their own nationals but who may have transited their land. This will not apply to people transiting Bulgaria or who will leave the country within 24 hours. No recreational or commercial fishing is allowed, or diving or snorkeling, and vessels transiting the area must stow fishing gear. 1.1Astronomy (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (a meridian or the face of another body). 〔天文〕（行星等天体）经过（另一天体，子午线） Example sentencesExamples More than 200 astronomy enthusiasts gathered at a Ribble Valley observatory for a rare sighting of the planet Mercury transiting the sun. When the planet transits the star, it blocks a small amount of the star's light; it's essentially a miniature solar eclipse. However, eclipse effects are not usually felt until there is some sort of trigger - a planet transiting over the point, for instance. Mercury and Venus are the only planets that orbit closer to the Sun than the Earth, so they are the only planets that can transit the Sun. During this event, Venus shall transit the face of the sun for about five hours. People won't really see a planet transiting the Sun. 1.2Astrology (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart). 〔占星〕凌 Example sentencesExamples Mars is transiting his natal chart in Pisces, the sign of deception, and also in the 11 th house, the house of friends. Of course, there's a saying that when Jupiter transits three signs in a year, there will be lots of floods - and aren't we having that! With Pluto transiting my 4th house, I can see that a phase of my life has come to a close, but I feel quite paralysed and can't see what changes to make. Saturn transits each sign in about 29.5 months and crosses three signs in about 7 and a half years, hence the reference to sadesati. When Saturn transits the sign of karka or cancer and again when it crosses scorpio or vrischik, the individual will experience the panoti or adhayia of Saturn. Origin Late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire ‘go across’.
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