英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Transhumanize
(v. t.)
To make more than human; to purity; to elevate
above humanity.
Transience
(n.)
Alt. of Transiency
Transiency
(n.)
The quality of being transient; transientness.
Transient
(a.)
Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were,
moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing;
hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not
stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient
pleasure.
Transient
(a.)
Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view
of a landscape.
Transient
(a.)
Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as,
a transient guest; transient boarders.
Transient
(n.)
That which remains but for a brief time.
Transilience
(n.)
Alt. of Transiliency
Transiliency
(n.)
A leap across or from one thing to another.
Transire
(n.)
A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.
Transit
(n.)
The act of passing; passage through or over.
Transit
(n.)
The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the
transit of goods through a country.
Transit
(n.)
A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the
Nicaragua transit.
Transit
(n.)
The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a
place, or through the field of a telescope.
Transit
(n.)
The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger,
as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow
across the disk of its primary.
Transit
(n.)
An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors
and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
Transit
(v. t.)
To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
Transition
(n.)
Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as,
the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
Transition
(n.)
A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a
modulation.
Transition
(n.)
A passing from one subject to another.