1. Passing; not stationary; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable. How transient are the pleasures of this life! NWAD TRANSIENT.2
--Measur’d this transient world. NWAD TRANSIENT.3
2. Hasty; momentary; imperfect; as a transient view of a landscape. NWAD TRANSIENT.4
Transient person, a person that is passing or traveling through a place; one without a settled habitation. NWAD TRANSIENT.5
I touch here but transiently--on some few of those many rules of imitating nature, which Aristotle drew from Homer. NWAD TRANSIENTLY.2
A leap from thing to thing. [Not much used.] NWAD TRANSILIENCE.2
1. A passing; a passing over or through; conveyance; as the transit of goods through a country. NWAD TRANSIT.2
2. In astronomy, the passing of one heavenly body over the disk of another and larger. I witnessed the transit of Venus over the sun’s disk, June 3, 1769. When a smaller body passes behind a larger, it is said to suffer an occultation. NWAD TRANSIT.3
3. The passage of one heavenly body over the meridian of another. NWAD TRANSIT.4
The spots are of the same color throughout, there being an immediate transition from white to black. NWAD TRANSITION.2
1. In rhetoric, a passing from one subject to another. This should be done by means of some connection in the parts of the discourse, so as to appear natural and easy. NWAD TRANSITION.3
He with transition sweet new speech resumes. NWAD TRANSITION.4
2. In music, a change of key from major to minor, or the contrary; or in short, a change from any one genus or key to another; also, the softening of a disjunct interval by the introduction of intermediate sounds. NWAD TRANSITION.5
Transition rocks, in geology, rocks supposed to have been formed when the world was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state. These rocks contain few organic remains, and when they occur with others, lie immediately over those which contain none, and which are considered as primitive. NWAD TRANSITION.6
1. In grammar, a transitive verb is one which is or may be followed by an object; a verb expressing an action which passes from the agent to an object, from the subject which does, to the object on which it is done. Thus, “Cicero wrote letters to Atticus.” In this sentence, the act of writing, performed by Cicero, the agent, terminates on letters, the object. All verbs not passive, may be arranged in two classes, transitive and intransitive. In English, this division is correct and complete. NWAD TRANSITIVE.2
O Lord, comfort and succor all them who, in this transitory life, are in trouble. NWAD TRANSITORY.2
1. In law, a transitory action, is one which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, detinue, slander and the like. It is opposed to local. NWAD TRANSITORY.3
1. To bear, carry or remove from one place to another. It is applied to the removal of a bishop from one see to another. NWAD TRANSLATE.2
The bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him to a better bishoprick, refused. NWAD TRANSLATE.3
2. To remove or convey to heaven, as a human being, without death. NWAD TRANSLATE.4
By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death. Hebrews 11:5. NWAD TRANSLATE.5
3. To transfer; to convey from one to another. 2 Samuel 3:10. NWAD TRANSLATE.6
4. To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease. NWAD TRANSLATE.7
5. To change. NWAD TRANSLATE.8
Happy is your grace, NWAD TRANSLATE.9
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune NWAD TRANSLATE.10
Into so quiet and so sweet a style. NWAD TRANSLATE.11
6. To interpret; to render into another language; to express the sense of one language in the words of another. The Old Testament was translated into the Greek language more than two hundred years before Christ. The Scriptures are now translated into most of the languages of Europe and Asia. NWAD TRANSLATE.12
7. To explain. NWAD TRANSLATE.13
1. The act of removing or conveying from one place to another; removal; as the translation of a disease from the foot to the breast. NWAD TRANSLATION.2
2. The removal of a bishop from one see to another. NWAD TRANSLATION.3
3. The removal of a person to heaven without subjecting him to death. NWAD TRANSLATION.4
4. The act of turning into another language; interpretation; as the translation of Virgil or Homer. NWAD TRANSLATION.5
5. That which is produced by turning into another language; a version. We have a good translation of the Scriptures. NWAD TRANSLATION.6
There happened certain translocations of animal and vegetable substances at the deluge. NWAD TRANSLOCATION.2
1. The property of admitting rays of light to pass through, but not so as to render objects distinguishable. NWAD TRANSLUCENCY.2
2. Transparency. NWAD TRANSLUCENCY.3
1. Transparent; clear. NWAD TRANSLUCENT.2
Replenish’d from the cool translucent springs. NWAD TRANSLUCENT.3
Transparent; clear. [See Translucent.] NWAD TRANSLUCID.2
Lying or being beyond the sea. NWAD TRANSMARINE.2
1. One who passes into another state or body. NWAD TRANSMIGRANT.3
1. To migrate; to pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residing in it; as men or families. NWAD TRANSMIGRATE.2
2. To pass from one body into another. NWAD TRANSMIGRATE.3
Their souls may transmigrate into each other. NWAD TRANSMIGRATE.4
1. The passing of a thing into another state, as of one substance into another. NWAD TRANSMIGRATION.2
2. The passing of the soul into another body, according to the opinion of Pythagoras. NWAD TRANSMIGRATION.3
1. That may be transmitted or passed from one to another. NWAD TRANSMISSIBLE.2
2. That may be transmitted through a transparent body. NWAD TRANSMISSIBLE.3
1. The act of sending from one place or person to another; as the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news and the like, from one country to another; or the transmission of rights, titles or privileges from father to son, and from one generation to another. NWAD TRANSMISSION.2
2. The passing of a substance through any body, as of light through glass. NWAD TRANSMISSION.3
Itself a sun, it with transmissive light NWAD TRANSMISSIVE.2
Enlivens worlds denied to human sight. NWAD TRANSMISSIVE.3
1. To send from one person or place to another; as, to transmit a letter or a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money or bills of exchange from one city or country to another. Light is transmitted from the sun to the earth; sound is transmitted by means of vibrations of the air. Our civil and religious privileges have been transmitted to us from our ancestors; and it is our duty to transmit them to our children. NWAD TRANSMIT.2
2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit electricity. NWAD TRANSMIT.3
The fluids and solids of an animal body are transmutable into one another. NWAD TRANSMUTABLE.2
1. The change of any thing into another substance, or into something of a different nature. For a long time, the transmutation of base metals into gold was deemed practicable, but nature proved refractory, and the alchimists were frustrated. NWAD TRANSMUTATION.2
2. In chimistry, the transmutation of one substance into another is very easy and common, as of water into gas or vapor, and of gases into water. NWAD TRANSMUTATION.3
3. In geometry, the change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form; as of a triangle into a square. NWAD TRANSMUTATION.4
4. The change of colors, as in the case of a decoction of the nephritic wood. NWAD TRANSMUTATION.5
5. In the vegetable economy, the change of a plant into another form; as of wheat into chess, according to the popular opinion. [See Chess.] NWAD TRANSMUTATION.6
To change from one nature or substance into another. Water may be transmuted into ice, and ice into water; the juices of plants are transmuted into solid substances; but human skill has not been able to transmute lead or copper into gold. NWAD TRANSMUTE.2
A holy conscience sublimates every thing; it transmutes the common affairs of life into acts of solemn worship to God. NWAD TRANSMUTE.3
The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends, transmute us into idols. NWAD TRANSMUTE.4
1. A beam or timber extended across the stern-post of a ship, to strengthen the aft-part and give it due form. NWAD TRANSOM.2
2. In architecture, the piece that is framed across a double light window; or a lintel over a door; the vane of a cross-staff. NWAD TRANSOM.3
Being beyond the river Po. NWAD TRANSPADANE.2
1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as transparent glass; a transparent diamond; opposed to opake. NWAD TRANSPARENT.2
2. Admitting the passage of light; open porous; as a transparent vail. NWAD TRANSPARENT.3
The wide transpicuous air. NWAD TRANSPICUOUS.2
His forceful spear the sides transpierc’d. NWAD TRANSPIERCE.2
1. To escape from secrecy; to become public. The proceedings of the council have not yet transpired. NWAD TRANSPIRE.3
2. To happen or come to pass. NWAD TRANSPIRE.4
It was transplaced from the left side of the Vatican to a more eminent place. [Little used.] NWAD TRANSPLACE.2
1. To remove and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees. NWAD TRANSPLANT.2
2. To remove and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. Salmaneser transplanted the Cuthites to Samaria. NWAD TRANSPLANT.3
3. To remove. NWAD TRANSPLANT.4
1. Removal; conveyance form one to another. Formerly men believed in the transplantation of diseases. NWAD TRANSPLANTATION.2
1. A machine for transplanting trees. NWAD TRANSPLANTER.2
Supereminent splendor. NWAD TRANSPLENDENCY.2
1. To carry or convey from one place to another, either by means of beasts or vehicles on land, or by ships in water, or by balloons in air; as, to transport the baggage of an army; to transport goods from one country to another; to transport troops over a river. NWAD TRANSPORT.2
2. To carry into banishment, as a criminal. Criminals are transported as a punishment for their crimes, which often amounts to banishment. NWAD TRANSPORT.3
3. To hurry or carry away by violence of passion. NWAD TRANSPORT.4
They laugh as if transported with some fit of passion. NWAD TRANSPORT.5
4. To ravish with pleasure; to bear away the soul in ecstasy; as, to be transported with joy. NWAD TRANSPORT.6
5. To remove from one place to another, as a ship by means of hawsers and anchors. NWAD TRANSPORT.7
The Romans stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. NWAD TRANSPORT.9
1. A ship or vessel employed for carrying soldiers, warlike stores or provisions from one place to another, or to convey convicts to the place of their destination. NWAD TRANSPORT.10
2. Rapture; ecstasy. The news of victory was received with transports of joy. NWAD TRANSPORT.11
3. A convict transported or sentenced to exile. NWAD TRANSPORT.12
1. Banishment for felony. NWAD TRANSPORTATION.2
2. Transmission; conveyance. NWAD TRANSPORTATION.3
3. Transport; ecstasy. [Little used.] NWAD TRANSPORTATION.4
4. Removal from one country to another; as the transportation of plants. NWAD TRANSPORTATION.5
1. a. Ravishing with delight; bearing away the soul in pleasure; extatic; as transporting joy. NWAD TRANSPORTING.2
1. To change the place or order of things by putting each in the place of the other; as, to transpose letters, words or propositions. NWAD TRANSPOSE.2
2. To put out of place. NWAD TRANSPOSE.3
3. In algebra, to bring any term of an equation over to the other side. Thus if a+b=c, and we make a=c-b, then b is said to be transposed. NWAD TRANSPOSE.4
4. In grammar, to change the natural order of words. NWAD TRANSPOSE.5
5. In music, to change the key. NWAD TRANSPOSE.6
1. Bringing any term of an equation over to the other side. NWAD TRANSPOSING.2
2. Changing the natural order of words. NWAD TRANSPOSING.3
1. A changing of the places of things and putting each in the place before occupied by the other; as the transposition of words in a sentence. NWAD TRANSPOSITION.2
2. The state of being reciprocally changed in place. NWAD TRANSPOSITION.3
3. In algebra, the bringing of any term of an equation to the other side. NWAD TRANSPOSITION.4
4. In grammar, a change of the natural order of words in a sentence. The Latin and Greek languages admit transposition without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English. NWAD TRANSPOSITION.5
5. In music, a change in the composition, either in the transcript or the performance, by which the whole is removed into another key. NWAD TRANSPOSITION.6