different between farther vs trans

English

Etymology

Variant of further.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fä?th?, IPA^(key): /?f??ð?/
• (US) enPR: fär?th?r, IPA^(key): /?f??ð?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)ð?(r)
• Homophone: father (in non-rhotic accents)

Adjective

farther

1. Alternative form of further. (See also the usage notes at further.)
   • 1813: Pride & Prejudice

     The necessity must be obeyed, and farther apology would be absurd.

Adverb

farther

1. Alternative form of further. (See also the usage notes at further.)
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 5.

     But as the matter is often carried farther, even to the absolute rejecting of all profound reasonings, or what is commonly called metaphysics, we shall now proceed to consider what can reasonably be pleaded in their behalf.

Verb

farther (third-person singular simple present farthers, present participle farthering, simple past and past participle farthered)

1. (uncommon or old-fashioned) Alternative form of further.

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ænz/
• Rhymes: -ænz

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tr?ns (“on the other side of”).

Adjective

trans (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
2. (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are on opposite sides of the central atom.

3. (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.

Usage notes

Compare trans- and its usage notes.

Antonyms

• cis

Derived terms

• trans fat

Verb

trans (third-person singular simple present transes, present participle transing, simple past and past participle transed)

1. (rare, transitive, social sciences) To cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or something in that vein).
   • 2012, Trystan Cotten, Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition (?ISBN):

     […] as they interact with bodies transing gender (and other) borders and spaces.

   • 2012, Finn Enke, Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (?ISBN), pages 4 and 20:

     Although they did so in sometimes very different ways and in different communities, transsexuals, drag queens, butch lesbians, cross-dressers, feminine men, and masculine women all in some senses crossed, or transed, gender[.] […] People who trans gender as well as people who do not may receive cis-privileges, and people who do not intentionally trans gender as well as people who do are denied cis-privileges if they fail to pass (or pass enough) in the sex/gender they are expected to be.

Etymology 2

Clipping of transgender or of transsexual (ultimately from Latin tr?ns).

Adjective

trans (not comparable)

1. Transgender (or sometimes transsexual).
   • 2018, Shon Faye, The Guardian, 30 May:

     Last week, a study released in Belgium suggested that trans people’s brains – including those of trans children – more closely matched those belonging to other members of the gender they identified with than with members of the gender associated with their sex at birth.

2. Alternative form of trans*

Usage notes

Compare trans- and its usage notes; see also trans*.

Derived terms

• trans man; trans woman; trans person
• transness

Related terms

• transgender
• transsexual
• transvestite

Translations

See also

• LGBTQ2
• LGBTQI
• LGBTQ
• LGBT
• non-binary

Noun

trans (plural transes)

1. (informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person.
   • 2001 November 23, "D a#344", TS out and proud compensation for passabilty?, alt.support.srs, Usenet:

     Good thing about Thanksgiving with the transes is you don;t need to explain your need to dialate in the middle of a movie. ; ) Dana a#344.

Etymology 3

Clipping.

Noun

trans

1. Clipping of transaction.
2. Clipping of transmission.
   • 1998 May 14, Gary S. Callison, Trans change (was: Something I just deleted and forgot), alt.fan.cecil-adams, Usenet:

     Most of the transes I've seen die started out by losing a gear, usually the high one. If this happens to you, first check the trans fluid level, *then* panic.

   • 2005 September 13, Richard, Re: Valvoline Transmission Fluid ATF+3 Chrysler Approved?, rec.autos.makers.chrysler, Usenet, quoting another user:

     If there really had been a difference and the transes were so forgiving as to be able to tolerate it, then cheaper alternatives like Lubeguard and […]

Etymology 4

Inflection.

Noun

trans

1. plural of tran

References

• trans at OneLook Dictionary Search
• trans in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• trans in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ranst, rants, snart, starn, tRNAs, tarns, trnas

Esperanto

Etymology

Derived from Latin tr?ns (“across, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“through, throughout, over”). Doublet of tra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trans/
• Hyphenation: trans
• Audio:

Preposition

trans

1. across, on the other side of
2. over

Antonyms

• cis (“on this side of”)
• maltrans (“on this side of”)

See also

• apud (“beside”)

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??s

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin trans. Doublet of très.

Adjective

trans (invariable)

1. (chemistry) trans

Related terms

• trans-

Etymology 2

Noun

trans m or f (plural trans)

1. transsexual

Adjective

trans (invariable)

1. transsexual

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto trans, from Latin trans. Not to be confused with the paronym tra.

Preposition

trans

1. on the other side of, beyond, across

Derived terms

• transe (“beyond”)
• transajo (“object on the other side”)
• trans-

Synonyms

• dop (“behind, after”)

Antonyms

• cis (“on this side of”)

Paronyms

• tra (“through”)

Interlingua

Preposition

trans

1. across

Italian

Etymology

See English trans.

Noun

trans m or f (invariable)

1. transsexual

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tr?nts, from Proto-Indo-European *tr?h?-n?ts, from *terh?- (“through, throughout, over”). Cognate with English through, Scots throch (“through”), West Frisian troch (“through”), Dutch door (“through”), German durch (“through”), Gothic ???????????????????? (þairh, “through”), Albanian tërthor (“through, around”), Welsh tra (“through”). See also thorough.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans/, [t??ä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans/, [t???ns]
• Rhymes: -ã?s

Preposition

tr?ns (+ accusative)

1. across, beyond

Derived terms

• tr?ns-
• tr?nstrum

Descendants

See also

• meta (Greek)

References

• trans in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trans in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• trans in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Middle English

Noun

trans

1. Alternative form of traunce

Polish

Etymology

From French transe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trans/

Noun

trans m inan

1. trance (dazed or unconscious condition)
2. trance (state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention)
3. (psychology) trance (such a state induced by hypnosis)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) transowy

Further reading

• trans in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• trans in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Adjective

trans (plural trans, comparable)

1. Short for transexual.
2. Short for transgênero.

Noun

trans m, f (plural trans)

1. Short for transexual.
2. Short for transgênero.

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of transexual.

Adjective

trans (invariable)

1. transgender, trans

Swedish

Noun

trans c

1. trance

Anagrams

• snart