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transition

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Synonyms: transitio, tradition, transaction, transexion, transitive, transection, translation, transiting, transitions, transfixion, tranation

Antonyms: transitio, tradition, transaction, transexion, transitive, transection, translation, transiting, transitions, transfixion, tranation

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

  1. The [[process]] of [[change]] from one [[form]], [[state]], [[style]] or [[place]] to [[another]].
  2. {{senseid|en|linguistics}} A [[word]] or [[phrase]] [[connecting]] one part of a [[discourse]] to another.
  3. {{lb|en|music}} A [[brief]] [[modulation]]; a [[passage]] connecting two [[theme]]s.
  4. {{lb|en|music}} A change of [[key]].
  5. {{lb|en|genetics}} A [[point mutation]] in which one [[base]] is [[replaced]] by another of the same [[class]] ([[purine]] or [[pyrimidine]]); compare [[transversion]].
  6. {{lb|en|some|_|sports}} A change from [[defense]] to [[attack]], or attack to defense.
  7. {{lb|en|medicine}} The [[onset]] of the [[final]] [[stage]] of [[childbirth]].
  8. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|skating}} A change between [[forward]] and [[backward]] motion without stopping.
  10. {{lb|en|LGBTQ}} The process or act of changing one's [[gender role]] or [[physical]] and [[sexual]] [[characteristic]]s, by social, medical{{,}} or legal methods, to conform to their identified [[gender]], rather than the [[sex]] [[assigned]] at [[birth]].
  11. {{lb|en|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.
  12. {{lb|en|euphemistic}} [[death|Death]]; [[passing]] from life into death.

Verb

  1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To make a [[transition#Noun|transition]].
  2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To bring through a [[transition#Noun|transition]]; to change.
  3. {{lb|en|intransitive|LGBTQ}} To change one's [[gender role]] or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's [[identify|identified]] gender.

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