Meaning

6 senses
  1. To pass over, across or through something.

    cause or enable to pass through

  2. To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.

    make a passage or journey from one place to another

  3. To use public transit.

    I always transit to work.

  4. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.

    revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

  5. (intransitive)To make a transit.

  6. (Internet)To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

Examples

29 sentences
  1. I'm in transit.

  2. I listen to the radio while in transit.

    У дорозі я слухаю радіо. — shanghainese

    ruВ дороге я слушаю радио. — shanghainese

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  3. I am here in transit.

    Я тут транзитом. — miketheknight

  4. My baggage was lost in transit.

    deMein Gepäck ging beim Transport verloren. — Merle

  5. She died in a transit accident.

Translations

3 languages

Origin

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“ove

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

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Forms

transits, transiting, transited, transited
Base formtransit · to transit
3rd person singulartransits
Present participletransiting
Past simpletransited
Past participletransited

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytransit
he, she, ittransits

Past simpleLesson

all personstransited

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave transited
he, she, ithas transited

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill transit

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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