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- pronunciation:
- traen
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traen
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traen
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traen
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- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective, noun), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
brief in duration; transitory or temporary.
He suffered a transient loss of memory.A weak smile lit up her face, but it was transient.- synonyms:
- brief, ephemeral, fleeting, passing, short-lived, transitory
- antonyms:
- endless, eternal, everlasting, permanent, perpetual
- similar words:
- evanescent, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, temporal, temporary
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| definition 2: |
remaining in one place for only a short time.
It is difficult to estimate the size of such a transient population.- synonyms:
- impermanent, short-term
- antonyms:
- resident
- similar words:
- itinerant, migrant, migratory, nomadic, peripatetic, temporary, unsettled, vagrant
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| related words: |
quick, restless, short, vagabond |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
one who remains in one place for a short time.
He was one of a number of transients who passed through the town that summer looking for work.- synonyms:
- itinerant, sojourner, vagabond, wanderer
- similar words:
- bum, derelict, drifter, hobo, nomad, tramp, vagrant
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| definition 2: |
a brief surge of electric current or voltage, which may occur before regular flow is established.
- synonyms:
- surge
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| related words: |
vagabond, visitor |
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