📖 T — The English dictionary · page 43

transit — Everyday, meaning 1: Transit is the act of carrying people or goods from one place to another: the parcel was lost in transit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US, Canada) Transit, or public transit, is the system of buses, trains and subways that people use to travel.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) A transit is when a planet or moon passes in front of a bigger object, such as the Sun.↗ Example: Your parcel is in transit and will arrive tomorrow.↗ · Many people use public transit to get to work.↗ · The vase was broken in transit.↗ · We waited in the transit lounge before our next flight.↗ · Astronomers watched the transit of Venus across the Sun.↗ · The builder drives a white Transit van.↗ · It is crowded with passengers, for the transit is quicker than by sea.↗

transition — Everyday, meaning 1: A transition is a change from one state, place or stage to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To transition is to move or change from one stage to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In writing, a transition is a word or phrase that links ideas, like «however» or «next».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Transition can mean a person changing to live as a different gender.↗ Example: The transition from primary to secondary school can feel scary.↗ · Melting is the transition from solid to liquid.↗ · Use transition words like «first», «then» and «finally».↗ · The caterpillar's transition to a butterfly takes weeks.↗ · Our class made a smooth transition to the new building.↗ · The sky changed from day to night in a slow transition.↗ · The team transitioned to a new coach.↗

translate — Everyday, meaning 1: To translate is to change words from one language into another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To translate is to change something into a different form: «translate a plan into action».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) To translate a shape is to slide it to a new position without turning or flipping it.↗ Example: Can you translate this sentence into French?↗ · My cousin translated the menu for us.↗ · Translate the square 4 units to the right.↗ · After a translation, the shape is the same size and faces the same way.↗ · The book was translated into fifty languages.↗ · Hard work translated into good marks.↗ · The app translates spoken words.↗ · The word חמפולמות is translated by Rashi, moist.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 45) I have translated according to the reading of Rabbi Judah Halevi.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · It is necessary to avoid confusion between these letters ; different authors translate them in different manners.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

translation — Everyday, meaning 1: Changing words from one language into another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A piece of writing or speech that has been changed into another language.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) Sliding a shape to a new position without turning it, flipping it or changing its size.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) Changing something into a different form.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A translation can also be an explanation that makes something easy to understand.↗ Example: This book is an English translation of a French story.↗ · Google gave a funny translation of my sentence.↗ · Some jokes get lost in translation.↗ · In maths, a translation slides a shape without turning it.↗ · Translate the triangle 4 squares right and 1 square down.↗ · She works in translation at a big company.↗ · After a translation, the shape is the same size and faces the same way.↗ · She had said it so often that Wendy needed no translation.↗ · With English Translation, Preface, Explanatory Notes and Glossary, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The translation adopted here follows a popular logic.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Source: https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Sefer%20Yetzirah?version=english%7CSefaria+Community+Translation Sefaria versionTitle: Sefaria Community Translation↗ · license: CC0↗ · versionSource: https://www.sefaria.org (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

translator — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is to change writing from one language into another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A computer program or app that changes words from one language into another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (general) Someone who puts something difficult into easier words for others.↗ Example: My aunt is a translator who turns German books into English.↗ · The Harry Potter books were changed into many languages by translators.↗ · We used a translator app to read the menu in Spain.↗ · A good translator knows both languages very well.↗ · Online translators sometimes make funny mistakes.↗ · My big sister was my translator when the doctor used hard words.↗ · P., I have had to depend on translators.↗ · Certain translators have preferred to render otyot yesod as 'elemental letters' by analogy with the Greek term.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Author of the "Guide for Rational Inquiries into the Biblical Scriptures," "Toms des Morgenlandes," Translator of "Nathan the Wise" from the German, etc., etc., etc. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Nonetheless, English translators have usually shied away from the this-worldly symbolism of the ‘Holy Wind’, much preferring immaterial ‘Spirit’ either out of theological embarrassment or deference to tradition.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

transliterate — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To write the letters of a word in another alphabet, so that its sounds can be shown in our letters.↗ Example: The teacher transliterated the Greek name into English letters.↗ · Words written in Russian can be transliterated into our alphabet.↗

transliteration — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Writing words of one language using the letters of another language.↗ Example: Proofed, formatted and Unicode transliteration by John Bruno Hare.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Yod Tzaddi Yod Resh Heh ; modes of transliteration vary with different authors.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

translocate — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, science) To translocate is to move something from one place to another, especially to move wild animals or plants to a new home to keep them safe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (biology) In plants, to translocate is to carry food, such as sugar, through the stem from the leaves to other parts.↗ Example: Rangers translocated twenty rhinos to a safer park.↗ · Scientists plan to translocate the rare frogs to a new pond.↗ · Kiwi chicks are sometimes translocated to islands without predators.↗ · Plants translocate sugar from their leaves to their roots.↗ · Beavers were translocated to Scotland to bring them back to the rivers.↗ · The team must check the new home before they translocate the birds.↗

translucent — Everyday, meaning 1: Letting some light pass through, but you cannot see clearly through it.↗ e.g. "Frosted glass is translucent."↗ Example: Tracing paper is translucent.↗ · The bathroom window is translucent, so no one can see in.↗ · Light comes through the translucent curtain.↗ · Is wax paper transparent, translucent or opaque?↗ · The jellyfish has a translucent body.↗ · We tested which materials are translucent with a torch.↗

transmissible — Everyday, meaning 1: Transmissible means able to be passed from one person, animal or thing to another, especially a disease.↗ e.g. "Measles is very transmissible."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Transmissible can also describe other things that can be passed on, such as traits from parents to children or signals.↗ Example: Chickenpox is highly transmissible among children.↗ · The new variant was more transmissible than the old one.↗ · Colds are transmissible through coughs and sneezes.↗ · Washing your hands helps stop transmissible germs.↗ · Not all diseases are transmissible; diabetes cannot be caught.↗ · Some plant diseases are transmissible by insects.↗ · Doctors want to know how transmissible a virus is.↗

transmission — Everyday, meaning 1: The passing of something from one person, place or thing to another: the transmission of disease.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sending out radio, TV or electronic signals, or a programme or message sent: a live transmission.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The part of a car or vehicle that sends power from the engine to the wheels; the gearbox.↗ Example: Washing hands reduces the transmission of germs.↗ · The radio transmission was full of crackles.↗ · The live transmission of the match started at three.↗ · Mosquitoes can spread disease by transmission through bites.↗ · The mechanic fixed the car's transmission.↗ · The spacecraft sent its last transmission back to Earth.↗ · The theme of La Perette is of interest as showing the literary transmission of tales from Orient to Occident.↗

transmit — Everyday, meaning 1: To send out radio, TV or electronic signals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To pass something, like a disease, from one person or thing to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To let light, heat, sound or electricity pass through.↗ e.g. Glass transmits light.↗ Example: The station transmits news every hour.↗ · Mosquitoes can transmit malaria.↗ · Glass transmits light, but wood does not.↗ · Copper wire transmits electricity well.↗ · The rover transmitted pictures from Mars.↗ · Covering your mouth when you cough helps stop germs being transmitted.↗

transmitted — Everyday, meaning 1: Sent out a signal, such as radio, TV, phone or internet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Passed a disease or germs from one person or animal to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Let heat, light, sound or electricity pass through.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Passed on information, knowledge or feelings to others.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To pass a gift, power or quality on to another person.↗ Example: The match was transmitted live on TV.↗ · The message was transmitted by radio.↗ · Colds are transmitted by coughs and sneezes.↗ · Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.↗ · Sound is transmitted faster through water than through air.↗ · Light is transmitted through clear glass.↗ · The signal was transmitted to the satellite.↗ · This elder Themis inherited from her mother the gift of prophecy, and when she became merged into her younger representative she transmitted to her this prophetic power.↗

transmute — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To transmute means to change something completely into something different, in form or nature.↗ e.g. "The caterpillar is transmuted into a butterfly."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history, science) In alchemy, to transmute meant to turn one metal into another, especially lead into gold; in modern science, nuclear reactions can really change one element into another (transmutation).↗ Example: Alchemists tried to transmute lead into gold.↗ · Radioactive uranium slowly transmutes into lead.↗ · The artist transmuted her sadness into a beautiful song.↗ · In the myth, the king's touch transmuted everything to gold.↗ · Scientists can transmute one element into another in a nuclear reactor.↗ · Hard work transmuted the empty field into a garden.↗ · The witch transmuted the frog into a prince.↗ · He hath formed, weighed, transmuted, composed, and created with these twenty-two letters every living being, and every soul yet uncreated.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

transparency — Everyday, meaning 1: Transparency is being see-through, letting light pass so you can see clearly through, like glass or clean water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Transparency means being open and honest so that people can see what is happening and why: transparency in government or in a company.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) A transparency is a clear plastic sheet with words or pictures on it, shown with an overhead projector, or a photographic slide.↗ Example: We tested the transparency of different materials with a torch.↗ · Clean water has great transparency.↗ · Voters want transparency about how taxes are spent.↗ · The club showed transparency by sharing its accounts.↗ · The teacher put a transparency on the old overhead projector.↗ · Transparency means people can check a decision is fair.↗ · Ice loses its transparency when it has lots of air bubbles.↗ · The Twelfth Path is the Intelligence of Transparency, because it is that species of Magnificence., called CHAZCHAZIT, which is named the place whence issues the vision of those seeing in apparitions.↗ (That is, the prophecies by seers in a vision.)↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

transparent — Everyday, meaning 1: Clear, so that you can see through it clearly.↗ e.g. "Glass is transparent."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Honest and open, with nothing hidden.↗ e.g. "a transparent decision".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Easy to see through or notice.↗ e.g. "a transparent lie".↗ Example: Window glass is transparent.↗ · Put the leftovers in a transparent box so we can see them.↗ · Clean water is transparent.↗ · Which materials are transparent, translucent or opaque?↗ · His excuse was so transparent that everyone knew he was lying.↗ · The club's rules are transparent and fair.↗ · Shining glow-worms covered the ceiling, and sky-blue bats flapped their transparent wings.↗

transpiration — Everyday, meaning 1: The way plants lose water as water vapour through tiny holes in their leaves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, sometimes also sweating in people and animals (rare).↗ Example: Transpiration pulls water up from the roots.↗ · We put a plastic bag over the plant to see transpiration.↗ · Transpiration is faster on hot, windy days.↗ · Water leaves the plant through tiny holes called stomata.↗ · Transpiration is part of the water cycle.↗ · Celery in coloured water shows how water moves before transpiration.↗

transplant — Everyday, meaning 1: noun (medicine).↗ e.g. An operation in which a damaged organ (heart, kidney, liver) is replaced with a healthy one from a donor.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: verb (medicine).↗ e.g. To move an organ or tissue from one person to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: verb (gardening).↗ e.g. To dig up a plant and plant it somewhere else.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: verb.↗ e.g. To move people or things to a new place to live.↗ Example: She had a kidney transplant and is healthy now.↗ · The first heart transplant was in 1967.↗ · We transplanted the tomato seedlings into bigger pots.↗ · Organ donors help transplant patients.↗ · Water the plants after you transplant them.↗ · The family was transplanted from the city to a small farm.↗ · Many flowers and trees have faded to-night, and Death will soon come to transplant them.↗

transport — Everyday, meaning 1: noun.↗ e.g. Transport is a way of moving people or goods from one place to another, such as cars, buses, trains, planes and ships.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: verb.↗ e.g. To transport means to move people or goods from one place to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: verb.↗ e.g. To be transported can mean to feel taken to another place or time by a story or music.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) Transport is how a body or plant moves things, like blood carrying oxygen.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A transport can also be a great rush of strong feeling, such as joy.↗ Example: Buses and trains are public transport.↗ · Lorries transport food to the shops.↗ · What kind of transport do you use to get to school?↗ · Blood transports oxygen around the body.↗ · The story transported me to a magical land.↗ · Ships transport goods across the ocean.↗ · And she flung herself into her friend's arms in a transport of delight.↗