transition en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/ (Canada, General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /tɹɑːnˈzɪʃ.ən/ (UK)
- /-sɪʃ-/ (Canada, General-American)
- /-ʒən/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/ (UK)
- /-sɪʃ-/ (UK)
- audio North Carolina
Etymology
From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.
1960 June, “Diesel locomotive operation on the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 374:So, depending on how he chooses to govern over the next four years, Mr. Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the next. His re-election opens the door further for the post-’60s generation, even if it does not quite clear the room.
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
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(countable, uncountable) A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
Holonym: metadiscourse
- (countable, uncountable) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (countable, uncountable) A change of key.
- (countable, uncountable) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (countable, qualifier:some sports, uncountable) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (countable, uncountable) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- (countable, uncountable) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- (countable, uncountable) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
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(countable, uncountable) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
When trans young people talk about their own transition, usually they mean using a different name and pronouns from the ones given to them at birth, and adapting their gender presentation to better express themselves, while asking that others (particularly family members, peers and teachers) acknowledge this presentation.
2021 September 2, Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue, →ISBN:The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.
2014 January 7, Katie McDonough, quoting Laverne Cox, “Laverne Cox flawlessly shuts down Katie Couric's invasive questions about transgender people”, in Salon, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2014:The LED lights up her face as she watches the YouTube video of a goth girl in New Orleans again. Nobody could tell to look at her. She has a year-long film of her transition and at the end of it she has black lips and long hair and she is hot.
2016, Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims, William Heinemann, page 29:
- (countable, uncountable) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
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(countable, euphemistic, uncountable) Death; passing from life into death.
This was my first Christmas without Gemmia and the one-year anniversary of her transition. […] We had a lovely time, but it was very clear that we would rather have been home doing what we would have done had Gemmia been alive.
2012, Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through, Smiley Books, →ISBN, page 289:As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition.
2011, Wendy Taylor, Shaman in Disguise, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| transitions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
transition technology · transitionable · macrotransition · transition state · transition matrix · transition economy · pretransition · filtered-popping recursive transition network · transition zone · post-transition metal · transition function · nontransition · transition town · transition time · glass transition temperature · transition year · transitioner · posttransition · positive transition · transition map · antitransition · transition temperature · transitionism · glass transition · transition point · phase transition · transitionless · transition house · Darwinian transition · demographic transition
Synonyms
Translations (103)
sh prijélaz (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · pt transição (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ka გარდასვლა (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · mi tauwhirowhiro (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · bg пре́ход (word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another) · nb overgang (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ka ტრანზიცია (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · hu átállás (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · hu átmenet (gender-related life change) · sv övergång (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ja 推移 (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · he תְּמוּרָה (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fr transition (gender-related life change) · gl transición (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · tr geçiş (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · de Übergang (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · cmn 過渡 /过渡 (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · mk транзиција (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ar نَقِل (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ru перехо́д (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ro tranziție (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · uk перехі́д (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fa دگرجنسیدن (gender-related life change) · fr transition (word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another) · fr transition (point mutation) · sco transeetion (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · cmn 轉變 /转变 (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · it transizione (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · bg пре́ход (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fi siirtymä (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · it passaggio (onset of the final stage of childbirth) · ca trànsit (gender-related life change) · ko 변화 (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · it transizione (brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes) · pt transição (point mutation) · fr transition (change from defense to attack, or attack to defense) · it passaggio (change from defense to attack, or attack to defense) · cs přechod (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ca transició (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · kk құбылыс (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · sk prechod (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · hu áttérés (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fa دگریدن (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · sh пре́лаз (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · pl tranzycja (gender-related life change) · mk премин (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ar تَحَوُّل (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · sh trànzīcija (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · it passaggio (point mutation) · el μετάβαση (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · he מַעֲבָר (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · sh тра̀нзӣција (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · pt transição (gender-related life change) · sl tranzicija (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · hu rendszerváltás (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · kk өзгеріс (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · be ператварэ́нне (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fi siirtyminen (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · sh прије́лаз (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · mi whakawhitinga (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · io transito (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ro tranziție (gender-related life change) · sl prehod (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fr transition (onset of the final stage of childbirth) · bn লিঙ্গ বদল করা (gender-related life change) · de Transition (gender-related life change) · hu átoperálás (gender-related life change) · sh prélaz (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · uz oʻtish (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fr transition (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ko 전이 (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ru превраще́ние (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · es transición (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · hu nemváltás (gender-related life change) · uk перетво́рення (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · hu átalakulás (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · da overgang (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ru перехо́д (gender-related life change) · fa تبدیل (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · mi whitianga (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · hu nemváltoztatás (gender-related life change) · hu átmenet (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ru транзиция (point mutation) · hy փոփոխություն (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fi välisoitto (brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes) · nl overgang (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fr transition (brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes) · hu átvezetés (brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes) · cmn 變化 /变化 (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · pl przejście (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · az keçid (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · mk преод (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ka გარდაქმნა (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fi muutos (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ja 遷移 (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · oc transicion (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · fi siirtymä (onset of the final stage of childbirth) · be перахо́д (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · hu átvezető rész (brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes) · hu tranzíció (gender-related life change) · hi लिंग बदलना (gender-related life change) · pl przekształcenie (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another) · ja 変化 (process of change from one form, state, style or place to another)