transitive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

transitive
    adj 1: designating a verb that requires a direct object to
           complete the meaning [ant: {intransitive}]
    n 1: a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in
         order to be grammatical [syn: {transitive verb},
         {transitive verb form}, {transitive}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
   See {Transient}.]
   1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
      --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Effected by transference of signification.
      [1913 Webster]

            By far the greater part of the transitive or
            derivative applications of words depend on casual
            and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the
            fancy.                                --Stewart.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
      which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
      requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive
      verb, for example, he holds the book.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Tran"si*tive*ly}, adv. --
      {Tran"si*tive*ness}, n.
      [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

transitive

   A relation R is transitive if x R y  &  y R z  =>  x R z.
   Equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all
   transitive.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "transitive":
      adjectival, adverbial, attributive, auxiliary, auxiliary verb,
      brittle, capricious, changeable, conjunctive, copula, copulative,
      correct, corruptible, deciduous, defective verb, deponent verb,
      dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, finite verb,
      fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, formal, fragile, frail,
      fugacious, fugitive, functional, glossematic, grammatic,
      impermanent, impersonal verb, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant,
      infinitive, insubstantial, intransitive, intransitive verb,
      linking, linking verb, modal auxiliary, momentary, mortal, mutable,
      neuter verb, nominal, nondurable, nonpermanent, participial,
      passing, perishable, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal,
      short-lived, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic,
      temporal, temporary, transient, transitory, undurable, unenduring,
      unstable, verb, verb phrase, verbal, volatile