different between trans vs alert

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l??t/
• (General American) enPR: ?-lûrt?, IPA^(key): /??l?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t
• Hyphenation: a?lert

Etymology 1

From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).

Adjective

alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)

2. Attentive; awake; on guard.
3. (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

   • I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself

Translations

Noun

alert (plural alerts)

1. An alarm.
2. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
3. (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.

   an airborne alert; ground alert

Translations

Etymology 2

Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.

Verb

alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)

1. To give warning to.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French alerte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??l?rt/
• Hyphenation: alert
• Rhymes: -?rt

Adjective

alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)

1. alert

Inflection

Derived terms

• alertheid

Anagrams

• later, ratel

German

Etymology

From French alerte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?l??t]

Adjective

alert (comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)

1. alert

Declension

Further reading

• “alert” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

From French alerte

Adjective

alert m or n (feminine singular alert?, masculine plural aler?i, feminine and neuter plural alerte)

1. wide-awake

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ??

Adjective

alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)

1. alert

Declension

Anagrams

• artel, later, letar, realt