transition

plural transitions

1. countableuncountableThe process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.

   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.

   1960 June, “Diesel locomotive operation on the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 374

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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—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   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 next. His re-election opens the door further for the post-’60s generation, even if it does not quite clear the room.

   2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times

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

   Holonym: metadiscourse

3. countableuncountableentertainmentA brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
4. countableuncountableentertainmentA change of key.
5. countableuncountablebiologyA point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
6. countableuncountablesome sportsA change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
7. countableuncountablemedicineThe onset of the final stage of childbirth.
8. countableuncountableeducationProfessional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
9. countableuncountablehobbiesA change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
10. countableuncountableThe process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.

    The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

    2014 January 7, Katie McDonough, quoting Laverne Cox, “Laverne Cox flawlessly shuts down Katie Couric's invasive questions about transgender people”, in Salon, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2014

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    The LED lights up her face as she watches the YouTube video of a goth girl in New Orleans again. Nobody could tell to look at her. She has a year-long film of her transition and at the end of it she has black lips and long hair and she is hot.

    2016, Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims, William Heinemann, page 29

    When trans young people talk about their own transition, usually they mean using a different name and pronouns from the ones given to them at birth, and adapting their gender presentation to better express themselves, while asking that others (particularly family members, peers and teachers) acknowledge this presentation.

    2021 September 2, Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue, →ISBN

    Synonyms: gender transition

11. countableuncountableaeronauticsA published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
12. countableeuphemisticuncountableDeath; passing from life into death.

    This was my first Christmas without Gemmia and the one-year anniversary of her transition. […] We had a lovely time, but it was very clear that we would rather have been home doing what we would have done had Gemmia been alive.

    2012, Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through, Smiley Books, →ISBN, page 289

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    As I read for the first time the inscription on my ancestor's tombstone, I recognized her name, but it was the date that transfixed my gaze and made my hair stand on end. The date of her death was March 1st, a fact I had been unaware of, but I did know that this day happened also to be March 1st; it was the thirty-second anniversary of her transition.

    2011, Wendy Taylor, Shaman in Disguise, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 82

present singular third person transitions · participle present transitioning · participle past transitioned · past transitioned

1. intransitiveTo make a transition.
2. transitiveTo bring through a transition; to change.

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

3. intransitiveTo 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.

   2006, Taylor J. Holder, All Points in Between: Shifting on the Scale of Sex and Gender, →ISBN

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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 psychotherapy […]

   2009, Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, →ISBN

   If the transitioning person leaves the family home, there will be moving costs, and costs associated with the acquisition of another home or the renting of an apartment. If the non-transitioning spouse leaves the family home, […]

   2009, Mara Drummond, Transitions - A Guide To Transitioning For Transsexuals And Their Families, page 71

   After he transitioned, he changed jobs so he could go stealth, hoping that no one would discover he was once a woman.

   2012, Kevin Alderson, Counseling LGBTI Clients, →ISBN, page 195

   Weimar Berlin. The first known case of a British person medically transitioning from one gender to another with the assistance of hormones and surgeries was Michael Dillon, a trans man (or 'female-to-male transsexual').

   2021 September 2, Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue, →ISBN