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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transitive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
transitive (=needing an object)
▪ 'Produce' is a transitive verb.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
verb
▪ There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
▪ Similarly, transitive verbs contrast directly with intransitive verbs, but only indirectly with adjectives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dependent nomic conditionals also have the logical feature that they are transitive.
▪ He also refers to a transitive attitude and to transitive minds.
▪ Similarly, transitive verbs contrast directly with intransitive verbs, but only indirectly with adjectives.
▪ The relation of dominance of a hierarchy can equally well be transitive or intransitive.
▪ There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
▪ This transitive dependency should not exist in third normal form.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transitive

Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]

  1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
    --Bacon.

  2. Effected 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.
    --Stewart.

  3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. [1913 Webster] -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. -- Tran"si*tive*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transitive

"taking a direct object" (of verbs), 1570s (implied in transitively), from Late Latin transitivus (Priscian) "transitive," literally "passing over (to another person)," from transire "go or cross over" (see transient). Related: Transitively.

Wiktionary
transitive

a. 1 Making a (l en transit) or passage. 2 Affected by (l en transference) of signification. 3 (context grammar of a verb English) Taking an (l en object) or objects. 4 (context set theory of a relation on a set English) Having the property that if an element ''x'' is related to ''y'' and ''y'' is related to ''z'', then ''x'' is necessarily related to ''z''. 5 {{context|algebra|of a (soplink group action)|lang=en}} Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.

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WordNet
transitive

adj. designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning [ant: intransitive]

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Usage examples of "transitive".

The noun or pronoun that completes a prepositional phrase or the meaning of a transitive verb.

Remember that the objective case follows transitive verbs and prepositions.

Perhaps the past tense is yeryanë in the former sense and yernë in the latter sense, just like we have transitive ulyanë coexisting with intransitive ullë as the past tense "poured"?

Now tell me everything you know about dipolar computers and transitive circuits.

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