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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "en"
},
"expansion": "Latin",
"name": "etyl"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "trānsitīvus"
},
"expansion": "trānsitīvus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "trānsitus"
},
"expansion": "trānsitus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "trāns",
"3": "",
"4": "across"
},
"expansion": "trāns (“across”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itus"
},
"expansion": "itus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "eō",
"3": "",
"4": "to go"
},
"expansion": "eō (“to go”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).",
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"1": "-"
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1841-1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet",
"text": "For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Making a transit or passage."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"Making a transit or passage."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
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{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "transitiu"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "siirtyvä"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "kulkeva"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "transitivo"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "transitório"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "tranzitiv"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perexódnyj",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "перехо́дный"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "transitivo"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 3 2 2 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perexidnýj",
"sense": "making a transit or passage",
"word": "перехідни́й"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive",
"text": "By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Affected by transference of signification."
],
"id": "transitive-en-adj-W243eolG",
"raw_glosses": [
"Affected by transference of signification."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 92 3 1 1 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "affected by transference of signification",
"word": "overdrachtelijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 92 3 1 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "affected by transference of signification",
"word": "muuttuva"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 92 3 1 1 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "óbraznyj",
"sense": "affected by transference of signification",
"word": "о́бразний"
}
]
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{
"word": "intransitive"
}
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"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Grammar",
"orig": "en:Grammar",
"parents": [
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "12 11 32 16 12 16",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Parts of speech",
"orig": "en:Parts of speech",
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"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The English verb \"to notice\" is a transitive verb, because we say things like \"She noticed a problem\".",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1908, G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy",
"text": "Men have tried to turn \"revolutionise\" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.",
"type": "quotation"
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"Taking a direct object or objects."
],
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"(grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects."
],
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"not-comparable",
"of a verb"
],
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"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
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"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "kalimtar"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mutaʿaddin",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"indefinite"
],
"word": "مُتَعَدٍّ"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ancʿołakan",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "անցողական"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "təsirli"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pjeraxódny",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "перахо́дны"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prehóden",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "прехо́ден"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitiu"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "jíwù",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Mandarin"
],
"word": "及物"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "přechodný"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitiv"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "overgankelijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitief"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitiva"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitiivinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitif"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitivo"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gardamavali",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "გარდამავალი"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitiv"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "metavatikós",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "μεταβατικός"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "metabatikós",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Ancient"
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"word": "μεταβατικός"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "allopathḗs",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Ancient"
],
"word": "ἀλλοπαθής"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "diabibastikós",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Ancient"
],
"word": "διαβιβαστικός"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "tárgyas"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "aistreach"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitivo"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"alt": "たどう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tadō",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "他動"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"alt": "他動",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "tadong",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "타동"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Kurdish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Northern-Kurdish"
],
"word": "têper"
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{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Kurdish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Northern-Kurdish"
],
"word": "gerguhêz"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "preoden",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "преоден"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "sakarmmakakriya",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "സകർമ്മകക്രിയ"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "tusakh",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "тусах"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitif"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitiv"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitiu"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "przechodni"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitivo"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "tranzitiv"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perexódnyj",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "перехо́дный"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "aisigeach"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "aistreach"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "asdolach"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "пре́лазан"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
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},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Roman"
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"word": "prélazan"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"tags": [
"Roman"
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"word": "prijélazan"
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{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "prechodný"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "prehoden"
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{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitivo"
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{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "transitiv"
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{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "geçişli"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perexidnýj",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "перехідни́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "ngoại"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "loveädik"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 4 67 11 6 6",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
"word": "anghyflawn"
}
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"word": "intransitive"
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{
"word": "nontransitive"
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"langcode": "en",
"name": "Set theory",
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"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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{
"text": "\"Is an ancestor of\" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z."
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"(set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z."
],
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"not-comparable",
"of a relation on a set"
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"mathematics",
"sciences",
"set-theory"
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "chuándìxìng",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"tags": [
"Mandarin"
],
"word": "传递性"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "tranzitivní"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitiivinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitif"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitiv"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "gegnvirkur"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"alt": "すいいてき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "suiiteki",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "推移的"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "przechodni"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitivo"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "tranzitiv"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perexódnyj",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "перехо́дный"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "тра̏нзитӣван"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "trȁnzitīvan"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitivo"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitiv"
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{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "palipat"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perexidnýj",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "перехідни́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 3 12 41 19 21",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "trosaidd"
}
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"name": "Algebra",
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"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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{
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{
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{
"code": "gd",
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"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "grammar, of a verb: taking an object or objects",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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{
"code": "es",
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{
"code": "sv",
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{
"code": "tr",
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{
"code": "uk",
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"code": "vi",
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{
"code": "cmn",
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{
"code": "cs",
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitif"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitiv"
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
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{
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "transitivo"
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{
"code": "ro",
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{
"code": "ru",
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
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{
"code": "es",
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{
"code": "sv",
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "palipat"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perexidnýj",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "перехідни́й"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "set theory, of a relation on a set",
"word": "trosaidd"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a group action",
"word": "transitiivinen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of a group action",
"word": "tranzytywny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of a group action",
"word": "transitivo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a graph",
"word": "transitiivinen"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "of a graph",
"word": "טרנזיטיבי"
}
],
"word": "transitive"
}
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