'Transitiveness' definitions:
Definition of 'transitiveness'
From: WordNet
noun
The grammatical relation created by a transitive verb [syn: transitivity, transitiveness] [ant: intransitiveness, intransitivity]
Definition of 'Transitiveness'
From: GCIDE
- Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif. See Transient.]
- 1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Effected by transference of signification. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Transitiveness'
- Transit,
- Transition,
- Transitional,
- Transitive,
- Transitively,
- transitionally,
- transitivity,
- Lower transit,
- Surveyor's transit,
- Transit circle,
- Transit compass,
- Transit duty,
- Transit instrument,
- Transit trade,
- Transition rocks,
- Transition zone,
- Upper transit,
- Vernier transit,
- phase transition,
- public transit,
- rapid transit,
- transit declinometer,
- transit line,
- transit zone,
- transitive verb,
- aba transit number,
- doubly transitive verb,
- mass rapid transit,
- transitive verb form,
- doubly transitive verb form,
- Prime-vertical transit instrument