Definizione monolingua

transitive

transitive (not comparable)

1. Making a transit or passage.

   • 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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet

2. Affected by transference of signification.

   • 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. - John Stuart Mill

3. (grammar): Of a verb, that takes an object or objects. (compare with: intransitive.)

   I read the book. (read is a transitive verb)

   I read. (read is an intransitive verb)

   • G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

     Men have tried to turn ""revolutionise"" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.

4. (set theory): Of a relation R on a set S, such that if xRy and yRz, then xRz for all members x, y and z of S (that is, if the relation applies from one element to a second, and from the second to a third, then it also applies from the first element to the third).

   ""Is an ancestor of"" is a transitive relation.

Definizione dizionario transitive

	transitiva
	in grammar: of a verb, that takes an object or objects

	transitivo
	in grammar: of a verb, that takes an object or objects

Altri significati:

Making a transit or passage.

in set theory

Affected by transference of signification.

Pertaining to a verb: can be accompanied by a direct object in active sentences

(set theory): Of a relation '''R''' on a set '''S''' , such that if '''xRy''' and '''yRz''' , then '''xRz''' for all members '''x''' , '''y''' and '''z''' of '''S''' (that is, if the relation applies from one element to a second, and from the second to a third, then it also applies from the first element to the third).

(grammar): Of a verb, that takes an object or objects. (compare with: intransitive.)