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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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quick, restless, short, vagabond |
adverb + (adj.)transient
downtown, highly, merely, necessarily, partially, postoperatively, relatively
(adj.)transient
+ adverb
accordingly, mentally
(adj.)transient
+ noun
absence,
abuser,
alcohol,
analysis,
anxiety,
attack,
capture,
cause,
cavity,
channel,
clearance,
colonisation,
condition,
confusion,
decrease,
disorder,
disturbance,
dysfunction,
effect,
embodiment,
emission,
episode,
error,
event,
existence,
experiment,
fashion,
feature,
flow,
fluctuation,
function,
grace,
guest,
hotel,
hunter,
increase,
infection,
insomnia,
ischemia,
joy,
killer,
labor,
lifestyle,
male,
motel,
nature,
neighborhood,
palsy,
personality,
phenomenon,
pleasure,
pod,
population,
profile,
reduction,
refugee,
response,
seizure,
signal,
simulation,
slip,
source,
status,
substance,
suppression,
syndrome,
testing,
theorem,
threat,
thyroidectomy,
tic,
user,
vibration,
visitor,
voltage,
warming,
wave,
weakness
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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 |
adjective + (n.)transient
aft, fast, homeless
verb + (n.)transient
live, travel
noun + (n.)transient
drug, fluid, impulse, power, resident, route, town
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The word transient
contains the following part:
tra-, trans-
Latin
prefix
that means across, over, to the other side
  Example words:
intransigent, intransitive, neurotransmitter, traduce, trajectory, transact, transatlantic, transceiver, transcend, transcendent, transcribe, transcript, transect, transept, transfer, transfigure, transfix, transform, transfuse, transgress, transient, transit, transition, transitive, translate, transliterate, translucent, transmissible, transmit, transmute, transonic, transparent, transpire, transplant, transport, transpose, transsexual, transuranic, transverse, transvestite, traverse
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