transit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).
Compound parts: trans
eō
Inflected forms:
form: transits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: transits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of passing over, across, or through something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.
Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it. Nor did he connect the smashing of a bottle with the generous curve of his transit.
gloss: The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the transit of goods through a country
gloss: Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: I always take transit to work.
gloss: The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.
gloss: To pass over, across or through something.
pos: verb
gloss: To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
pos: verb
gloss: To use public transit.
pos: verb
examples: I always transit to work.
gloss: To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
pos: verb
gloss: To make a transit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
Related words: transience
transiency
transient
transition
transitional
transitionary
transitionist
transitive
transitively
transitory
Derived words: antitransit
bowel transit time
bus rapid transit
colonic transit time
fabrication-in-transit
interval transit time
in transit
light rail transit
microtransit
milling-in-transit
nontransit
paratransit
protransit
rapid transit
transit bus
transit instrument
transit lane
transit lounge
transitology
transit telescope
transit tetany
transitway
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: transiitti