transition
Syllables: tran·si·tion/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/US/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/
transition noun: the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
Noun
transition (countable and uncountable, plural transitions)
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- 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...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- 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.1960 June, “Diesel locomotive operation on the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 374
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- Holonym: metadiscourse
- A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- A change of key.
- A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- 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.
- A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- 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.
- The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.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...
- 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.2016, Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims, William Heinemann, page 29
- Synonyms:
- gender transition
- 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.
- Death; passing from life into death.
- 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...2011, Wendy Taylor, Shaman in Disguise, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 82
- 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.2012, Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through, Smiley Books, →ISBN, page 289
Verb
transition (third-person singular simple present transitions, present participle transitioning, simple past and past participle transitioned)
- To make a transition.
- To bring through a transition; to change.
- The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.
- To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- Eric told me that after he transitioned, he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.2006, Taylor J. Holder, All Points in Between: Shifting on the Scale of Sex and Gender, →ISBN
- And simply being accepted into one of these programs was not a guarantee that one would be allowed to transition. First, the trans person had to undergo extensive, sometimes indefinite, periods of psychotherapy […]2009, Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, →ISBN
transition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
transition in Hindi
- gender-related life change
- लिंग बदलना liṅg badalnā
transition in Tamil
- நிலைமாற்றம், நிலை மாற்றம், சீர்மாற்றம், சீர் மாற்றம், நிலைத்திரிவு, மாறு நிலை
transition in Marathi
- संक्रमणाची
transition in Bengali
- gender-related life change
- লিঙ্গ বদল করা liṅgo bodol kora
More languagesFewer languages
- transition in Malayalam
- സംക്രമണം, സ്ഥിതിഭേദം, സ്വരപരിണാമം, മാറ്റം
- transition in Kannada
- ಮಾರ್ಪಡುವ ಹೊತ್ತು, ಮಾರ್ಪಾಟು, ಬದಲಾವಣೆ, ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆ
- transition in Gujarati
- સંક્રમણ, ટ્રાન્ઝીશન
- transition in Arabic
- تَحَوُّل taḥawwul, نَقِل naqil
- transition in Persian
- تبدیل tabdil, دگریدن, دگرجنسیدن
- transition in Vietnamese
- chuyển giới, hoán giới, đổi tính
Examples of transition in a sentence
- In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- 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.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
- 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.2011, Wendy Taylor, Shaman in Disguise, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
- If the transitioning person leaves the family home, there will be moving costs, and costs associated with the acquisition of another home or the renting of an apartment.2009, Mara Drummond, Transitions - A Guide To Transitioning For Transsexuals And Their Families, page 71:
Synonyms of transition
Forms of transition
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | transitions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | transitions |
| present participle | transitioning |
| past participle | transitioned |
| past | transitioned |
Origin of transition
From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.
Words formed from transition
- antitransition
- Darwinian transition
- demographic transition
- filtered-popping recursive transition network
- glass transition
- glass transition temperature
- macrotransition
- nontransition
- phase transition
- positive transition
- posttransition
- post-transition metal
- pretransition
- transitionable
- transition economy
- transitioner
- transition function
- transition house
- transitionism
- transitionless
- transition map
- transition matrix
- transition point
- transition state
- transition technology
- transition temperature
- transition time
- transition town
- transition year
- transition zone
- detransition
- retransition
- transit
- transitional
- transition altitude
- transitionary
- transition element
- transitionist
- transition layer
- transition level
- transition metal
- transition strip
Phrases with transition
Words that rhyme with transition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
- remission
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about transition
- What does transition mean?
- Transition means the process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- What is transition in Hindi?
- Transition in Hindi is लिंग बदलना (liṅg badalnā). See Transition meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use transition in a sentence?
- In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
- What part of speech is transition?
- Transition can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce transition?
- Transition is pronounced /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of transition?
- The plural of transition is transitions.
Words near transition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: transition (page history and authors); transition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transition (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); transition (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transition (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transition (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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