different between transition vs overgang

English

Etymology

From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?nz?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /t?æn?z???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

transition (countable and uncountable, plural transitions)

1. The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
2. A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
3. (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
4. (music) A change of key.
5. (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
6. (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
7. (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
8. (education) 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.
9. (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
10. (LGBT) The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
11. (aviation) 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.

Usage notes

In the United Kingdom education system, the noun is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next. Contrast with transfer which is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school.In the United States education system the, noun is used to define a move from a one phase of an Independent Educational Program (IEP) to another specifically regarding the child's or adult's progress from more or less special educational support to greater independent living.

Translations

Verb

transition (third-person singular simple present transitions, present participle transitioning, simple past and past participle transitioned)

1. (intransitive) To make a transition.
2. (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.

   The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.

3. (intransitive, LGBT) To change from one gender role to another, or bring one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
   • 2009, Mara Drummond, Transitions - A Guide To Transitioning For Transsexuals And Their Families, page 71:

     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. If the non-transitioning spouse leaves the family home, […]

Related terms

• transit
• transitional
• transitionary
• transitionist
• transition element
• transition metal
• transition strip

Translations

Anagrams

• nitrations

French

Etymology

From Latin tr?nsiti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

transition f (plural transitions)

1. transition

Further reading

• “transition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English overgangen, from Old English ofergangan, from Proto-Germanic *ubergangan?, made up from *uber (“over”) + *gangan? (“to walk, step”), equivalent to over- +? gang (“to walk, step”). Cognate with Scots owergang (“to overwhelm, master, dominate”).

Verb

overgang (third-person singular simple present overgangs, present participle overganging, simple past and past participle overganged)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go beyond or above; to exceed.
   • c. 1600, unknown author, "Proud Lady Margaret":

     Ye're straight and tall, handsome withall, But your pride overgangs your wit

   • c. 1650, unknown author, Eger and Grime

     But at the last it will overgang, Suppose that many think it lang.

Derived terms

• overganger

Etymology 2

From Middle English *overgang, from Old English ofergang (“a going across”), equivalent to over- +? gang (“a going”).

Noun

overgang (plural overgangs)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Something that goes across or over; a transition.
   • 1587, Lord Robert of Orkney, "A renunciation" quoted in Notes on Orkney and Zetland, Alexander Peterkin, page 127:

     [...] all such udall lands, quoy lands, and others, as was evictit frae them be his Lordship's courts of perambulation, and overgangs, holden upon the lands of the same and divers places thereof, mentioned most specially in his Lordship's court-books, he renounced the same accordingly.

   • 1883, George Stephens, Prof: S. Bugge's studies on Northern mythology shortly examined:

     Sometimes we can put our finger direct on the overgang.

   • 1892, Quarter Sessions Records of the Peace (Yorkshire North Riding), volume 9, page 249:

     [...] the preservation of adequate or established footpaths, the creation of new stiles or overgangs, in aid of the same object, in the fences required in the process of inclosure, and so forth.

   • 1990, Dolores Warwick Frese, "Wulf and Eadwacer: The Adulterous Woman Reconsidered" in New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, page 283:

     Its palmbranch logo - "the earliest Christian symbol of triumph over death - and the "still half-Scandian dialect in 12 lines of stave-rime verse" all "announce the overgang from heathendom."

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch overganc. Equivalent to over +? gang. Related to overgaan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.v?r.???/
• Hyphenation: over?gang

Noun

overgang m (plural overgangen, diminutive overgangetje n)

1. transition

   Synonym: transitie

2. crossing, place where one crosses
3. menopause

   Synonym: menopauze, climacterium

Derived terms

• overgankelijk
• spoorwegovergang

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From over- +? gang

Noun

overgang m (definite singular overgangen, indefinite plural overganger, definite plural overgangene)

1. a crossing
2. a transition
3. a transfer
4. (transport) an interchange

Derived terms

References

• “overgang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From over- +? gang. Akin to Old Norse yfirgangr.

Noun

overgang m (definite singular overgangen, indefinite plural overgangar, definite plural overgangane)

1. a crossing
2. a transition
3. (sports) a transfer
4. (transport) an interchange

Derived terms

References

• “overgang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• overgnag