transitive

Examples

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• "I need to find the verb in this sentence and identify if it is transitive or intransitive:"

  Academic text (2011)

• In (4), the global question allows an optionally transitive response.

  Academic text (2012)

• Note from this information that the transitive property can be used to prove A > B > C.

  Blog text (31)

• But an interesting part about that definition is that it kind of is transitive, right?

• Normally, "enabling" is a transitive relation.

  Academic text (2017)

• Therefore, through the transitive property, a dog's urine is just as clean as its saliva and easier to get.

  Mystery Team (2009)

• The word was a transitive verb, an exclamation, a command, of which an exact English translation is impossible.

  Fiction book (1990)

• According to the logic of transitive thought, information is a means, its increments mainly building blocks toward some synthesis or explanation.

  Academic text (2010)

• Clearly, the selected edges form a Hamiltonian cycle if and only if every pair of vertices is in the transitive closure.

  Academic text (2011)

• The verb 'give' is transitive because it requires a direct object to complete its meaning, such as in 'She gave him a book.'

Antonyms

I

intransitive

• Specialized

1 7.2

Not followed by a noun showing who or what the verb affects

Compounds

D

doubly transitive verb

• Specialized

9.3

A verb that takes two objects, one showing who receives something and one showing what is received

T

transitive verb

• Specialized

6.0

A verb that needs an object after it

How Transitive

transitive

• Specialized

4 7.0

intransitive

• Specialized

1 7.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology