different between transmat vs transman

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1950s, from transmit or transfer and matter; perhaps popularized by the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Noun

transmat (plural transmats)

1. (Britain, science fiction) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
   • 1975, Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks (Doctor Who, season 12, serial 4), opening dialogue:

     TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor.

     DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam?

     TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.

   • 1983, The Long Way Home (video game published with 16/48 Magazine)

     You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.

   • 2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who series 1, episode 12):

     LYNDA: Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transmat.

Verb

transmat (third-person singular simple present transmats, present participle transmatting, simple past and past participle transmatted)

1. (Britain, science fiction) To teleport; to travel via transmat device.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transmat.

Anagrams

• Stratman

English

Etymology

trans- +? man or trans +? man

Noun

transman (plural transmen)

1. Alternative spelling of trans man

Usage notes

• Regarding the spelling (as trans man vs transman), see the usage notes about trans woman.

Dutch

Etymology

From trans- +? man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr?ns.m?n/
• Hyphenation: trans?man

Noun

transman m (plural transmannen, diminutive transmannetje n)

1. transman

Swedish

Noun

transman c

1. transman

Declension