[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

transitive \tran"sitive\, 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"sitively, adv. --
      tran"sitiveness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
transient tran"sitively tran"sitiveness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

transitive
     adj : designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete
           the meaning ant: intransitive
see also:
intransitive 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

75 moby thesaurus words for "transitive":
   adjectival, adverbial, attributive, auxiliary, auxiliary verb,
   brittle, capricious, changeable, conjunctive, copula, copulative,
   correct, corruptible, deciduous, defective verb, deponent verb,
   dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, finite verb,
   fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, formal, fragile, frail,
   fugacious, fugitive, functional, glossematic, grammatic,
   impermanent, impersonal verb, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant,
   infinitive, insubstantial, intransitive, intransitive verb,
   linking, linking verb, modal auxiliary, momentary, mortal, mutable,
   neuter verb, nominal, nondurable, nonpermanent, participial,
   passing, perishable, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal,
   short-lived, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic,
   temporal, temporary, transient, transitory, undurable, unenduring,
   unstable, verb, verb phrase, verbal, volatile

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

transitive
     
        a relation r is transitive if x r y    y r z  =>  x r z.
        equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all
        transitive.
     
     

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