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.
A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
Holonym: metadiscourse
A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
To make a transition.
To bring through a transition; to change.
The soldier was transitioned from a combat role to a strategic role.
Etymology tree Middle French transitionbor. English transition From Middle French transition, from Latin transitio. By surface analysis, transit + -ion.
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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.