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单词 transitive
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Definition of transitive in English:

transitive

adjectiveˈtrɑːnsɪtɪvˈtranzɪtɪvˈtransɪtɪvˈtrɑːnzɪtɪv
  • 1Grammar
    (of a verb or a sense or use of a verb) able to take a direct object (expressed or implied), e.g. saw in he saw the donkey.

    〔语法〕及物的。INTRANSITIVE 的反义词

    The opposite of intransitive
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A grammar of Japanese will tell you that a transitive verb is positioned after its object, not before, because you couldn't guess that if no one told you.
    • The first part of the utterance seems to be in English, except for the verb rub which has been given the Tok Pisin suffix - im, which marks transitive verbs.
    • However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
    • But it is the rare transitive use of the verb, with the action sent on to an object, that catches the attention of philologists.
    • Furthermore, the verbs are usually transitive, though occasionally they are used intransitively with a preposition like for, of, or about introducing the object.
  • 2Mathematics Logic
    (of a relation) such that, if it applies between successive members of a sequence, it must also apply between any two members taken in order. For instance, if A is larger than B, and B is larger than C, then A is larger than C.

    〔逻,数〕(关系)可递的,可迁的,传递的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He also considered permutation groups of small degree, groups having a small number of conjugacy classes, multiply transitive groups, and characteristic subgroups of finite groups.
    • The reason for this consequence is that identity is a transitive relation: that is to say, if a is identical with b and b is identical with c, then, of necessity, a is identical with c.
    • When most individuals in the group differ in size, stable dominance relationships generally yield transitive hierarchies consistent with size.
    • The transitive property of equality says that if a = b and b = c, then a = c.
    • I glanced at Nick, who nodded, and the teacher went back to droning on and on about the transitive property in Geometry: easily the most boring class of the day.

Derivatives

  • transitively

  • adverbˈtransɪtɪvliˈtranzɪtɪvli
    • In this instance ‘is’ speaks transitively and means approximately ‘gathered together,’ ‘collected.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In these examples, the meaning of the verb does not change whether it is used transitively or intransitively.
      • Many verbs that are usually intransitive are also used transitively in Greek.
      • Like most English prepositions, near can be used either transitively (with a noun-phrase complement) or intransitively (without a complement).
      • The available evidence thus does not make it clear that this verb can be used transitively, the ‘it’ of ‘suffice it to say’ not being particularly referential.
  • transitiveness

  • noun
    • Spheres can be related to each other as parents, children or siblings; the transitiveness of the relationship properties also creates ancestral and descendant relations.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Per se the question of transitiveness belongs to the idea of the verb itself, not to that of voice.
      • Where transitiveness results from the substantial meaning (like seeing), it seems to presume a subject complement.
      • The assumption of transitiveness needs to be mentioned as well.
      • It is straightforward, for example, to describe arbitrary patterns of transitiveness, functionality, etc., in Common Logic.
  • transitivity

  • nountransəˈtɪvətitranzəˈtɪvəti
    • Strengthening is a special case of transitivity, in which the missing premise is a tautology: if C & A then A; if A, B; so if C & A, B.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One can determine to what degree cliques are present by measuring the amount of clustering, also sometimes referred to as transitivity.
      • As children solidly learn the transitivity status of particular verbs, they become more reluctant to use those verbs in other argument structure constructions.
      • I especially like the discussions of behavioral economics, transitivity, endowment effects, and the like.
      • You can't have a classification without an equivalence relation, and one of the three defining properties of an equivalence relation is transitivity.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'transitory'): from late Latin transitivus, from transit- 'gone across' (see transit).

Definition of transitive in US English:

transitive

adjective
  • 1Grammar
    (of a verb or a sense or use of a verb) able to take a direct object (expressed or implied), e.g. saw in he saw the donkey.

    〔语法〕及物的。INTRANSITIVE 的反义词

    The opposite of intransitive
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, some transitive verbs take a prepositional phrase instead of an indirect object.
    • But it is the rare transitive use of the verb, with the action sent on to an object, that catches the attention of philologists.
    • The first part of the utterance seems to be in English, except for the verb rub which has been given the Tok Pisin suffix - im, which marks transitive verbs.
    • Furthermore, the verbs are usually transitive, though occasionally they are used intransitively with a preposition like for, of, or about introducing the object.
    • A grammar of Japanese will tell you that a transitive verb is positioned after its object, not before, because you couldn't guess that if no one told you.
  • 2Logic Mathematics
    (of a relation) such that, if it applies between successive members of a sequence, it must also apply between any two members taken in order. For instance, if A is larger than B, and B is larger than C, then A is larger than C.

    〔逻,数〕(关系)可递的,可迁的,传递的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He also considered permutation groups of small degree, groups having a small number of conjugacy classes, multiply transitive groups, and characteristic subgroups of finite groups.
    • I glanced at Nick, who nodded, and the teacher went back to droning on and on about the transitive property in Geometry: easily the most boring class of the day.
    • The reason for this consequence is that identity is a transitive relation: that is to say, if a is identical with b and b is identical with c, then, of necessity, a is identical with c.
    • When most individuals in the group differ in size, stable dominance relationships generally yield transitive hierarchies consistent with size.
    • The transitive property of equality says that if a = b and b = c, then a = c.
noun
  • A transitive verb.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unlike Romanian and English the two types of transitives in Japanese show no variation in the mapping from semantic to syntactic structure.
    • Are transitives conjoined with intransitives bad?
    • Antitransitive verbs are derived from the transitives by rules which are similar to those used for the derivation of transitives from intransitives.
    • In the past tense configuration, however, the Pashto agreement system is ergative: verb - subject agreement with intransitives, but verb - object agreement with transitives.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘transitory’): from late Latin transitivus, from transit- ‘gone across’ (see transit).

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