transition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /-sɪ-/
ipa: /-ʒən/
ipa: /tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /-sɪ-/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: transitions
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French transitionbor.
English transition
From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.
ref: 1960 June, “Diesel locomotive operation on the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 374:
text: So, depending on how he chooses to govern over the next four years, Mr. Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the next. His re-election opens the door further for the post-’60s generation, even if it does not quite clear the room.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
examples: Holonym: metadiscourse
glosses: A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A change of key.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
qualifier: some sports
glosses: A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
topics: education
glosses: Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
examples: text: The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.
ref: 2014 January 7, Katie McDonough, quoting Laverne Cox, “Laverne Cox flawlessly shuts down Katie Couric's invasive questions about transgender people”, in Salon, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2014:
text: The LED lights up her face as she watches the YouTube video of a goth girl in New Orleans again. Nobody could tell to look at her. She has a year-long film of her transition and at the end of it she has black lips and long hair and she is hot.
ref: 2016, Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims, William Heinemann, page 29:
text: When trans young people talk about their own transition, usually they mean using a different name and pronouns from the ones given to them at birth, and adapting their gender presentation to better express themselves, while asking that others (particularly family members, peers and teachers) acknowledge this presentation.
ref: 2021 September 2, Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue, →ISBN:
synonyms: gender transition
glosses: The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
examples: text: As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition.
ref: 2011, Wendy Taylor, Shaman in Disguise, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
text: This was my first Christmas without Gemmia and the one-year anniversary of her transition. […] We had a lovely time, but it was very clear that we would rather have been home doing what we would have done had Gemmia been alive.
ref: 2012, Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through, Smiley Books, →ISBN, page 289:
glosses: Death; passing from life into death.
Derived terms: Darwinian transition
demographic transition
filtered-popping recursive transition network
glass transition
glass transition temperature
phase transition
positive transition
post-transition metal
transition economy
transition function
transition house
transition map
transition matrix
transition point
transition state
transition technology
transition temperature
transition time
transition town
transition year
transition zone