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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : tran-zish-uhn, -sish- |
Phonetic Transcription : trænˈzɪʃ ən, -ˈsɪʃ- |
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Définition of transition
Origin :- 1550s, from Latin transitionem (nominative transitio) "a going across or over," noun of action from past participle stem of transire "go or cross over" (see transient).
- noun change, often major
- From one enemy of Robert the transition is brief and natural to another.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- For him these years were a period of mental growth, of transition, of development.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- This transition of thought from the cause to the effect proceeds not from reason.
- Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume
- Such measures are good as makeshifts in a period of transition.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- Let there be nothing in the state of transition worse than simple imprisonment.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- I want to get the transition over now, though it is rather an abrupt one.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- We are not the end, we are but a transition, a beginning of something else.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- In my own country the progress of development has reached a point of transition.
- Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root
- But he has hitherto been unable to make the transition from mathematics to metaphysics.
- Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
- Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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