On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Transitive. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as intransitive or verb and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Transitive in a sentence
Transitive meaning
- Making a transit or passage.
- Affected by transference of signification.
- Taking a direct object or objects.
Synonyms of Transitive
Using Transitive
- The main meaning on this page is: Making a transit or passage. | Affected by transference of signification. | Taking a direct object or objects.
- Useful related words include: intransitive, transitive verb, transitive verb form, verb.
- In the example corpus, transitive often appears in combinations such as: transitive verbs, transitive closure, the transitive.
Context around Transitive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Transitive
- In this selection, "transitive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, vertex, face, edge, closure, property and verb stand out and add context to how "transitive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a commutative transitive closure and and a full transitive closure is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "transitive" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with transitive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A regular skew hexagon is vertex-transitive with equal edge lengths. (11 words)
Graves backed up Carmella’s “simple math,” leaning heavily on the transitive property. (13 words)
Active and passive pairs can be illustrated with the transitive verb haki (to chop). (14 words)
As a consequence of the multiply transitive property of this group acting on this set, any subset of five elements of S will appear in exactly one of these 132 images of size six. (34 words)
And I suppose in some really cynical argument, you could say, well, that’s not true, but it gets people talking about Haitians, but it’s far too much of a transitive property. (33 words)
A transitive form exists in AmE, with a different meaning: to catch somebody up means that the subject will help the object catch up, rather the opposite of the BrE transitive meaning. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
A quasi-regular dual is face-transitive and edge-transitive (and hence every vertex is regular) but not vertex-transitive.
A full transitive closure is not needed; a commutative transitive closure and even weaker forms suffice.
A semi-regular dual is face-transitive but not vertex-transitive, and every vertex is regular.
A transitive form exists in AmE, with a different meaning: to catch somebody up means that the subject will help the object catch up, rather the opposite of the BrE transitive meaning.
A uniform dual is face-transitive and has regular vertices, but is not necessarily vertex-transitive).
However, a bit in the type field within the attribute decides whether the encoded extended community is of a transitive or non-transitive nature.
However, the transitive closure of a restriction is a subset of the restriction of the transitive closure, i.e., in general not equal.
In non-valency marking languages such as English, a transitive verb can often drop its object and become intransitive; or an intransitive verb can take an object and become transitive.
The action of the symmetric group on a set with n elements is always n-transitive; the action of the alternating group is n-2-transitive.
They are exactly the vertex-transitive graphs whose symmetry group includes a transitive cyclic group.
And I suppose in some really cynical argument, you could say, well, that’s not true, but it gets people talking about Haitians, but it’s far too much of a transitive property.
Graves backed up Carmella’s “simple math,” leaning heavily on the transitive property.
Accusative vs. partitive case opposition of the object used with transitive verbs creates a telicity contrast, just as in Finnish.
A concave bipyramid has a concave interior polygon. : The face-transitive regular bipyramids are the dual polyhedra of the uniform prisms and will generally have isosceles triangle faces.
Active and passive pairs can be illustrated with the transitive verb haki (to chop).
Ambitransitivity main In many languages, there are "ambitransitive" verbs, which can be either transitive or intransitive.
A regular skew hexagon is vertex-transitive with equal edge lengths.
As a consequence of the multiply transitive property of this group acting on this set, any subset of five elements of S will appear in exactly one of these 132 images of size six.
As a result, the need for explicit manual resource management (release/close) for non-GCed resources becomes transitive to composition.
Aspect is unusual in ASL in that transitive verbs derived for aspect lose their grammatical transitivity.
Common combinations with transitive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- transitive verbs 10×
- transitive closure 8×
- the transitive 7×
- transitive verb 6×
- of transitive 5×
- is transitive 5×
- and transitive 4×
- transitive on 4×
- transitive property 3×
- transitive trust 3×