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measures
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m???z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m???z/
- Hyphenation: meas?ures
Noun
measures
- plural of measure
Verb
measures
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of measure
Anagrams
- reassume
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transit
English
Etymology
From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) +? ire (“to go”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?t?æn.z?t/, /?t?æn.s?t/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?t?æn.z?t/, /?t?æn.s?t/
- (UK, now rare) IPA(key): /?t???n.z?t/
- Rhymes: -ænz?t
Noun
transit (countable and uncountable, plural transits)
- The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- the transit of goods through a country
- (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- (navigation) 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.
- (Britain) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
- Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.
- (Canada, US) Public transport system.
- I always take the transit to work.
Derived terms
- transit lounge
Translations
Verb
transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)
- To pass over, across or through something.
- To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
- (Internet) 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.
Translations
Related terms
- transience
- transiency
- transient
- transition
- transitional
- transitionary
- transitionist
- transitive
- transitively
- transitory
References
Further reading
- transit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- transit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- transit at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Tristan, startin', straint
French
Verb
transit
- third-person singular present indicative of transir
- third-person singular past historic of transir
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch transit, from French transit, from Latin tr?nse?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?trans?t]
- Hyphenation: tran?sit
Noun
transit (first-person possessive transitku, second-person possessive transitmu, third-person possessive transitnya)
- transit,
- (trading) the conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
Alternative forms
- transito
Further reading
- “transit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Ladin
Noun
transit m (plural transic)
- transit
Latin
Verb
tr?nsit
- third-person singular present active indicative of tr?nse?
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