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noun
- 1. the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another: "students in transition from one programme to another"
- 2. the process by which a person permanently adopts the outward or physical characteristics of the gender with which they identify, as opposed to those associated with their birth sex. The process may or may not involve measures such as hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery: "she had been living as a woman for eight years at that point and had completed her transition in 2001"
verb
- 1. undergo or cause to undergo a process or period of transition: "he transitioned into filmmaking easily"
- 2. adopt permanently the outward or physical characteristics of the gender one identifies with, as opposed to those associated with one's birth sex: "once the decision was finally made to transition, she was overwhelmed with the support from her immediate family"
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47 1. M-W records that the verb was in use in 1877. – Edwin Ashworth. Jul 15 at 22:32. Add a comment. 2. "Transitioning to" implies that the subject is going from one place to another (perhaps instantly) while "Transitioning into" implies that the subject is going through a process to become, or to do, something else.
Sep 18, 2016 · Viewed 4k times. 2. To my knowledge, transition is (also) a rarely used intransitive verb. To transit seems a lot more common. I'm trying to understand the difference between them. Personally, transit seems mainly linked to transportation, while transition rather applies to a change in the state of being. word-choice. Share.
The only meaning of segway reported by the NOAD, and the OED, is the following:. Segway: [trademark] a two-wheeled motorized personal vehicle consisting of a platform for the feet mounted above an axle and an upright post surmounted by handles.
Oct 7, 2011 · I upvoted this one and downvoted the other one. Sorry Barrie. I think Christopher's answer is more correct, in that Barrie's answer is a specific use case, rather than a general rule. "On that note" is more often used to transition between two (or more) similar ideas or topics. Definitely +1 for throwing in the phrase's emotive usages.
Dec 2, 2014 · 5. Excerpting this Grammarist post: Though more so spelled as two words, the one-word moreso gained ground despite the disapproval of usage authorities. More so strictly means that to a greater degree, and so refers to an adjective or adverb used earlier. E.g.: Gina is studious, and Eleanor is more so.
Along the lines of previously-suggested seamless and comfortable transitions, one might also say indiscernible transition. In place of transition one might use bridge, segue, mutation or transmutation. Also consider the sense of mercurial that means "Lively; clever; sprightly; animated; quick-witted."
BCE/CE usually refers to the Common Era (the years are the same as AD/BC). That is, BC is usually understood to mean "Before the Common Era" and CE to mean "Common Era," though it is possible to reinterpret the abbreviations as "Christian Era." The simplest reason for using BCE/CE as opposed to AD/BC is to avoid reference to Christianity and ...
Feb 20, 2021 · 2. When the meaning of something is said to be 'lost in translation' it is usually the case that the phrase which has been translated has an idiomatic meaning in the original language which it does not have in the target language. This means that when the phrase is translated it either has a different meaning in the target language or is ...
Nov 16, 2011 · Cohesion is "the glue that sticks a sentence to another in a paragraph or a paragraph to another in a text."
Jul 13, 2023 · @VincentKrebs in that example the "e.g." seems parenthetical: it could be omitted entirely. Therefore, it should have two commas (one before and one after) or none, the choice being a matter of style and possibly dependent on factors such as for example the length of the
