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[ tran-zish-uhn, -sish- ]

/ trænˈzɪʃ ən, -ˈsɪʃ- /

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noun

movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Music.

  1. a passing from one key to another; modulation.
  2. a brief modulation; a modulation used in passing.
  3. a sudden, unprepared modulation.

a passage from one scene to another by sound effects, music, etc., as in a television program, theatrical production, or the like.

verb (used without object)

to make a transition: He had difficulty transitioning from enlisted man to officer.

to change from one gender identity to another or to align one's dress, behavior, etc., with one's gender identity: My friend is transitioning without hormone therapy or surgery.

OTHER WORDS FOR transition

1 changeover, passing, conversion.

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Origin of transition

First recorded in 1545–55; from Latin trānsitiōn- (stem of trānsitiō ) “a going across, passage,” equivalent to trānsit(us) (past participle of transīre “to go over, cross”; cf. transit) + -iōn- -ion

OTHER WORDS FROM transition

tran·si·tion·al, tran·si·tion·a·ry [tran-zish-uh-ner-ee, -sish-], /trænˈzɪʃ əˌnɛr i, -ˈsɪʃ-/, adjective

Words nearby transition

transit, transitable, transit camp, transit circle, transit instrument, transition, transitional, transition area, transition element, transition point, transition probability

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Words related to transition

changeover, conversion, development, evolution, growth, passage, progress, progression, shift, transformation, upheaval, alteration, flux, metamorphosis, metastasis, passing, transit, transmutation, turn, realignment

How to use transition in a sentence

  • When internet was working its way into society, Brazil set up a body known as the Internet Steering Committee, whose job was to smooth the transition of the internet in society and kind of improve its development.

    Podcast: COVID-19 is helping turn Brazil into a surveillance state|Anthony Green|September 16, 2020|MIT Technology Review

  • Life transitions are moments when behavior change is abnormally easy.

    How a vacation—or a pandemic—can help you adopt better habits now|matthewheimer|September 12, 2020|Fortune

  • As my colleague Maria Aspan reported yesterday, the appointment was an expected transition.

    New Citi CEO Jane Fraser gives Wall Street banks a fresh perspective|Claire Zillman, reporter|September 11, 2020|Fortune

  • Anticipating this, Uber says it has earmarked $800 million to help its drivers transition to electric vehicles.

    Uber Wants to Go All-Electric by 2030. It Won’t Be Easy|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|September 10, 2020|Singularity Hub 

  • We need, at least for the transition period, natural gas to ensure a secure energy supply in Germany.

    Trump has long wanted to kill a Russia-Germany natural gas pipeline. Navalny’s poisoning could do it for him|David Meyer|September 8, 2020|Fortune

  • A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”

    The Shadowy U.S. Veteran Who Tried to Overthrow a Country|Jacob Siegel|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

  • Exactly when the transition to modern domestic creature took place, for a bird that is wild to this day, is controversial.

    The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • How did you make the transition from pro surfer to modeling?

    Anastasia Ashley, Surfer-Cum-Model, Rides The Viral Internet Wave|James Joiner|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • He held intrigue for journalists converging for the transition of papal power.

    How Pope Francis Became the World’s BFF|Jason Berry|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • Will the transition of power from one Kim to another become drenched in even more blood?

    Kim Jong Un’s Kid Gloves Are Now Off|Gordon G. Chang|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

  • With children of finer perception the transition to a correct profile view may be carried much further.

    Children's Ways|James Sully

  • From this condition to the state where one of the stars is so nearly dark as to be invisible, the transition is but slight.

    Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

  • It is merely the transition of matter into new forms—into combinations which are subject to new processes.

    Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward

  • I consider you are at present in a transition period; in a state of fermentation; and no one knows what you are capable of doing.

    The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky

  • So much for swearing when in grim earnest; how are we to account for it in its transition to sport and play?

    A Cursory History of Swearing|Julian Sharman

British Dictionary definitions for transition

transition

/ (trænˈzɪʃən) /

noun

change or passage from one state or stage to another

the period of time during which something changes from one state or stage to another

music

  1. a movement from one key to another; modulation
  2. a linking passage between two divisions in a composition; bridge

Also called: transitional a style of architecture that was used in western Europe in the late 11th and early 12th century, characterized by late Romanesque forms combined with early Gothic details

physics

  1. any change that results in a change of physical properties of a substance or system, such as a change of phase or molecular structure
  2. a change in the configuration of an atomic nucleus, involving either a change in energy level resulting from the emission of a gamma-ray photon or a transformation to another element or isotope

a sentence, passage, etc, that connects a topic to one that follows or that links sections of a written work

Derived forms of transition

transitional or rare transitionary, adjectivetransitionally, adverb

Word Origin for transition

C16: from Latin transitio; see transient

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Correct spelling for transition [Infographic]

CONDITIONAL

I would transition

you would transition

he/she/it would transition

we would transition

they would transition

CONDITIONAL CONTINUOUS

I would be transitioning

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they would be transitioning

CONDITIONAL PERFECT

I would have transition

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CONDITIONAL PERFECT CONTINUOUS

I would have been transitioning

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FUTURE

I will transition

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FUTURE CONTINUOUS

I will be transitioning

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he/she/it will be transitioning

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FUTURE PERFECT

I will have transitioned

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FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

I will have been transitioning

you will have been transitioning

he/she/it will have been transitioning

we will have been transitioning

they will have been transitioning

IMPERATIVE

you transition

we let´s transition

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

to transition

PAST

I transitioned

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he/she/it transitioned

we transitioned

they transitioned

PAST CONTINUOUS

I was transitioning

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PAST PARTICIPLE

transitioned

PAST PERFECT

I had transitioned

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they had transitioned

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

I had been transitioning

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he/she/it had been transitioning

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they had been transitioning

PRESENT

I transition

you transition

he/she/it transitions

we transition

they transition

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

I am transitioning

you are transitioning

he/she/it is transitioning

we are transitioning

they are transitioning

PRESENT PARTICIPLE

transitioning

PRESENT PERFECT

I have transitioned

you have transitioned

he/she/it has transitioned

we have transitioned

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PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

I have been transitioning

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we have been transitioning

they have been transitioning

Qazaqьstan or Qazaqstan: Why should the transition to the Latin alphabet start with the name of the country?

Revolutionary reform awaits the state language. The Kazakh language will say goodbye to the Cyrillic alphabet and return to the Latin alphabet. The transition to a new graphic dimension will be carried out gradually until 2025.

Since the arguments "for" and "against" have already been expressed by many public figures and linguists, Informburo.kz tried to answer the question: "How?". After all, you can’t just take and switch to the Latin alphabet, you need to decide how exactly this or that sound will be transmitted.

Translator, philologist and teacher Anatoly Chernousov, using the example of just one, but very important word "Kazakhstan", showed us how little we really know about how to write Kazakh words in the Latin alphabet correctly.

What Jamal Omarova sang about

We are used to the fact that "Kazakhstan" is written in our passports as "Kazakhstan". And the much-discussed English version, proposed by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in November 2016, looks like Qazaqstan.

However, before the transition to Cyrillic, the name of our country was written differently.

"An interesting fact: in the 1920s the word "Kazakhstan" was written as Qazaqьstan, and most likely it was pronounced as "Kazakhystan". To do this, just listen to the recording of the song "Menin Kazakhstanym" in 1956 performed by Zhamal Omarova (performer of Kazakh folk songs and songs of the peoples of the USSR. - Auth. ). She sings "Kazakhystanym" very clearly. By the way, this song is our modern anthem," Anatoly Chernousov says.

It would be easier to correct the current alphabet

The Kazakh language, figuratively speaking, like a lady changing clothes, changed clothes many times, being translated into one or another graphic system. Not all outfits fit equally well. There are problems with both Cyrillic and Latin.

"The Cyrillic alphabet that we are currently using is rather irrational," Anatoly Chernousov commented. "It contains a lot of unnecessary letters, such as hard and soft signs and the letter Y. And some sounds of the Kazakh language are written very strangely. For example, there is the letter Sh. She in the Kazakh alphabet it denotes a long sound Sh, for example, in the word "ashchy". While words like "sheber" are written with sh, although when pronouncing the word, we actually say "sheber". I am not saying that one should write with sh , but the very existence of such strange things suggests that the alphabet has not been finalized, it needs to be reworked.In addition, there are studies that claim that the letter I in the Kazakh language has from three to eight different meanings. in different positions there are different sounds. This is a problem that needs to be solved. Of course, you can leave it like that, in different languages ​​there are different assumptions. For example, the letter O in Russian is also written and read differently. We do not write "k arova", although we pronounce it like that, well, or almost like that. It all has to be thought out."

According to the linguist, it might be easier and cheaper to just slightly correct the alphabet that is used for the Kazakh language today.

"From the point of view of time and financial costs, it would be easier to slightly correct the current alphabet than to change the graphics completely. This is serious work. This does not mean that we will say: "That's it, we'll throw out these letters and that's it." No, of course. This would also have a very strong impact on spelling. Replacing even one letter or refusing it causes systemic changes in spelling," Anatoly believes.

"Unified Turkic alphabet", developed by the Central Executive Committee of the SSR

Alphabet "on the knee"

Anatoly Chernousov says that many citizens have the wrong idea about the transition to the Latin alphabet. They do not understand the complexity of the process and think that it is enough to write everything in English letters. In social networks, there were even versions of the new alphabet from amateur philologists.

"The transition to the Latin alphabet is seen by many as replacing some letters with others. It looks especially funny on social networks, where users post posts like: "I came up with it, it will look like this," Anatoly Chernousov commented. - And they just take the modern alphabet and rewritten in Latin letters. At the same time, they leave the letter Y, for example, which is not in the Kazakh language at all, or soft and hard signs. Or they remove unused letters, but leave the modern order. That is, the alphabet is based on Latin script, but the order is like in Cyrillic , that is, instead of “A, B, C…” they have “A, B, V…". And not only that, B is a rather controversial letter, because there is no sound B in the Kazakh language. That is, the presence of this letter in the alphabet is already debatable. So also the Latin alphabet with the Cyrillic order of letters looks ridiculous. If someone wrote on social networks that he can now quickly, on his knee, assemble a hadron collider or a nuclear reactor, then everyone would be horrified and thought the man was crazy. But when someone on their knees scribbled a new alphabet for the Kazakh language, people say that yes, they say, it’s normal. And they start to argue how applicable it is."

No perfect graphics

If you look more broadly, then the symbols with which we designate this or that sound are relative. If you do not invest in them a political meaning, then this is just a convention.

“There is an opinion that the Latin alphabet better reflects the sounds of the Kazakh language,” says Anatoly Chernousov. “In my opinion, this is a rather strange statement. The way it is written and the way it is pronounced, that is, the ratio of graphics and phonetics – conventionally. For example, if we agree that the letter A is pronounced like the sound A, then in principle it is considered that it is so. If we decide that the letter A is pronounced like B, for example, then we will write A and say B. This is not a question at all. When someone says that the Latin alphabet better reflects the pronunciation of the Kazakh language, the letter Q better conveys the sound Қ than the modern letter - it sounds strange to say the least. "

Anatoly Chernousov / Facebook photo

In principle, graphics that fully reflect the pronunciation of words do not exist. This is a utopia. Therefore, the most convenient or familiar option is often adopted.

"The ideal would be graphics that can reflect all the diversity of the implementation of the phonemes of the language during speech, but such a system of recording the language is unlikely to ever be created," Anatoly believes. "Modern languages ​​very often live very well with rather archaic graphics. For example, in English, writing words graphically is very different from how they sound.At the same time, English is the most successful language in the world in terms of the number of people who speak it and the areas of use.Graphic and phonetic content of a word are two different things.You cannot demand from the Kazakh language strive for a complete coincidence of graphics and phonetics, since this is basically impossible.

Disputes and discussions in society, according to Anatoly, are caused by the fact that many people do not know a simple thing: speaking a language and knowing how it functions are not the same thing.

"Everything is not as simple as it might seem to a simple layman. A change in graphics leads to a change in the rules of writing, that is, the entire spelling. And since we have decided to switch to the Latin alphabet, it is worth noting that there is a lot of work to be done. As far as I know, she is conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Let's leave it to Kazakh linguists," Anatoly summed up.

The question is how to pronounce

Doctor of Philology Aigul Bizhkenova believes that the spellings Qazaqstan or Kazakhstan are quite acceptable. And it does not matter that they may not perfectly convey the sound of the word in Kazakh.

"You are right, it is written "Kazakhstan" and pronounced "Kazakhystan". But it is in any language. This is the assimilation of sounds at the junction, - commented Aigul Bizhkenova. - For example, there is a voiced consonant before a deaf one, it is stunned - this is the rule of phonetics. And vice versa - if the subsequent sound is voiced, and the previous one is deaf, it can be played loudly. Conversational speech differs from written speech. Written speech is more normalized, and oral pronunciation is varied, sounds affect each other during fast speech. For example, the city of Hamburg is written "Hamburg ", but it is pronounced completely differently. Oral speaking is different, there are also dialect variants. The spelling of the word "Kazakhstan" has already, in principle, entered into international circulation, so there is no point in arguing how it is spelled. The question is how to pronounce it. "

Specific letters

Aigul Bizhkenova pointed out to us other difficulties that may await us in the transition to the Latin alphabet. For example, in the Kazakh language there are completely unique sounds that are very difficult to identify.

“Transferring specific letters of the Kazakh language is difficult,” says Aigul Bizhkenova. “There are sounds ә, ғ, қ, ң, ө, ұ, ү, h, i. Expertise is needed here. which have consonant phonemes. For example, the same German, there are exactly the same sounds as in the Kazakh language. For example, "h", we have "Gauhar". Another question is that there is a sound "ә", which is not in other languages, it needs to be dealt with. It's not such a problem, it's all subject to discussion and decision. There is a whole cohort of scientists who can advise on how to write correctly."

Another side of the issue is the need to relearn for those who have never dealt with Latin letters.

"Now there is a population that has not studied foreign languages ​​at all. It is very difficult for them to distinguish the Latin alphabet, especially for the elderly part of the population. There are even fears that in the end they will be illiterate people," says Aigul Bizhkenova. for letters, it is very difficult for them to read today's advertising, which is written in English. Therefore, of course, there are certain problems here. But innovation is never without problems, you need to be prepared for everything. As for young people, you can generally not to be afraid - everyone is computer literate, everyone has phones. They already know Latin letters. "

On April 12, 2017, Nursultan Nazarbayev made a statement: scientists and members of the public should accept a single standard for the new Kazakh alphabet and graphics. At the end of this year, the standards should already be ready, and business documentation, periodicals, textbooks should be translated into Latin by 2025.

Type or type - which is correct? | Education | Society

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Answered by Yesenia Pavlotsky, linguist-morphologist, expert at the Institute of Philology, Mass Media and Psychology, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University.

The record holder for mystery among frequently used words is tipo - "phantom" of the word type . Phantom, because such a word does not exist, which, however, does not prevent native speakers from actively using it.

Let's figure out what type is and in what contexts we use this word.

It is known that the words of the Russian language are characterized by morphological "migration" and part-of-speech mobility. For example, the word dining room is a former adjective ( dining room ), “changed profession”: it has become a noun. In science, this process is called substantiation (if we are talking specifically about the transition to a noun), and in a general sense, the transition from one part of speech to another. Ice cream, private are also examples of such grammatical transformation. But the word thanks to - the gerund-werewolf: becomes a pretext. Compare: He hugged me, thanks for help; thanks to my help he was able to get a job.

Thus, numerals become adjectives, gerunds become adverbs and prepositions, and pronouns become particles. This phenomenon is so common in our language system and so important for understanding grammar that teachers now start talking about it as early as elementary school, despite the complexity.

Word of type is also affected by this transition. But not only! Therefore, it is a unique case. Type is a particle and also an interjection (depending on the function in the context). And this particle / interjection was formed in a special way - it came from a noun frozen in the form of the genitive case type in the meaning of ‘ a form, a kind of something that has certain characteristics, as well as a sample that corresponds to a known group of objects, phenomena '. In a direct meaning, related to its origin, we observe the word type in the following context: “I want to buy a dress type like this”, that is, “about the same dress”, “dress like this type ”. “So you are an athlete? - Yes, like that , that is, "like that", "not exactly an athlete, but it looks like that." Since the word of the type with such content at a certain stage of its existence was extremely in demand for native speakers, it soon made the transition to an interjection and even an introductory (modal) word. Pay attention to what the path of this evolution could be: “I went up to her and I say like …”, that is, “I say something like that”. Probably, at some point, the word simply changed its place, which led him to a new function: “I approached her type and said ...”, “I approached her type and said ...”.

It is possible that the functions of the interjection in type were fixed under the influence of the English "brothers" like and you know with the same purpose. At a certain point, the popularity and frequency of like as an interjection led to a new round of evolution (but many native speakers consider this a degradation): “I am type came up to her and type I say, type ... ". As we can see, here the word almost completely loses its meaning and acts as a parasitic word.

As for the "phantom" type (even more popular than the existing type ), here we are dealing with "false literacy". A native speaker feels that a word with such a role should not have the ending but . The reason for the emergence of such an ending is not clear (who would guess that this is a frozen genitive?), and it is not analyzed at all. But it seems that the word type is an adverbial nature. That's why I want to attribute it to quickly, soon, to the left, tightly . So, option , like , seems to be literate and correct, although this is not so.

Each speaker has the right to decide how and in what cases to use such a great potential of the word of type - to use it as an interjection, an introductory word, a particle, a parasitic word.

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