TRANSITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transitive mean? 

• TRANSITIVE (noun)
  The noun TRANSITIVE has 1 sense:

1. a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

  Familiarity information: TRANSITIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• TRANSITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective TRANSITIVE has 1 sense:

1. designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning

  Familiarity information: TRANSITIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSITIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

transitive; transitive verb; transitive verb form

Hypernyms ("transitive" is a kind of...):

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transitive"):

doubly transitive verb; doubly transitive verb form (a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object)

• TRANSITIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Antonym:

intransitive (designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object)

Derivation:

transitiveness; transitivity (the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb)

transitivize (make transitive)

 Context examples 

Defines the type of annotation (e.g., direct, mapped, transitive closure).

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