transition

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(noun.)

ADJ

VERB + TRANSITION

bring about, cause, effect

The new manager brought about a smooth transition when she took over the department last month.

complete, make

She completed her transition to university life by the end of the first semester.

undergo

mark

Her graduation ceremony marked the transition from student life to her new career as an engineer.

ease, smooth

TRANSITION + VERB

occur, take place

be complete

The country's transition to democracy was finally complete after ten years of reform.

TRANSITION + NOUN

period, process | phase

PREP

during (the) ~

The company kept most of its staff during the transition to new management.

in ~

The company is in transition as it moves its headquarters to a new location downtown.

~ between

Moving to a new house was a difficult transition between city life and living in the countryside.

~ from, ~ to

PHRASES

a period of transition, a process of transition, a state of transition

Definitions

noun

1

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.

In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.

2

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

Holonym: metadiscourse

3

A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.

4

A change of key.

5

A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.

verb

1

To make a transition.

2

To bring through a transition; to change.

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

3

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.

And simply being accepted into one of these programs was not a guarantee that one would be allowed to transition. First, the trans person had to undergo extensive, sometimes indefinite, periods of psychotherapy […]

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Synonyms

noun — the act of passing from one state or place to the next

passage

noun — a musical passage moving from one key to another

modulation

noun — an event that results in a transformation

conversion
changeover

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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

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In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.

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So, depending on how he chooses to govern over the next four years, Mr. Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the

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

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

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And simply being accepted into one of these programs was not a guarantee that one would be allowed to transition. First, the trans person had to undergo extensive, sometimes indefinite, periods of psy

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