transition

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)

   The airline transitioned to more fuel-efficient jets

2. 2
   verb

   cause to convert or undergo a transition

   the company had to transition the old practices to modern technology

3. 3
   noun

   The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

   All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

4. 4
   noun

   A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.

   Holonym: metadiscourse

5. 5
   noun

   The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.

   The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

6. 6
   noun

   Death; passing from life into death.

   As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition.

7. 7
   verb

   To bring through a transition; to change.

   The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.

8. 8
   verb

   To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.

   Eric told me that after he transitioned, he wanted to learn to fish and all the things his father never taught him.

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle French transitionbor. English transition From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.