transitionaladj.n.

Brit.

/trɑːnˈsɪʃn̩(ə)l/,

/tranˈsɪʃn̩(ə)l/,

/trɑːnˈzɪʃn̩(ə)l/,

/tranˈzɪʃn̩(ə)l/, U.S.

/trænˈzɪʃ(ə)nəl/

Forms: see transition n. and -al suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: transition n., -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < transition n. + -al suffix¹. N.E.D. (1914) also gives the pronunciation (trɑnsi·ʒənăl)

/trɑːnˈsɪʒənəl/.

A. adj.

a. Of or relating to transition; characterized by or involving transition or change; intermediate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective]

transitory1592

transitive1660

transitional1663

transitionary1685

gradual1692

gradative1840

gradational1842

unabrupt1865

liminala1916

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxxiii. 417 This Chapter is purely transitional, and framed, by the liberty of Dialogue, to accommodate the continuity of the discourse.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 262 The Jewish Rabbis..represented the Millenium as the preparative and transitional state to perfect spiritualization.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species vi. 172 By this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. i. 3 At a transitional period in the world's developement.

1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. i. 30 Shakspere and Milton are transitional between Spenser and Dryden.

1922 J. G. Frazer Let. 26 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (2005) 381 The Kpelle of Libera are a people who seem to be in a transitional state from maternal to paternal descent.

1976 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 133 69/1 A program of transitional halfway houses for mentally ill individuals.

2013 Daily Tel. 10 Oct. 19/4 After a transitional period, the US and its allies will accept Iran's freedom.

b. Architecture. Sometimes with capital initial. Designating or belonging to a style of architecture of mixed or intermediate character, esp. the combination of Romanesque and Gothic features in 12th cent. architecture.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > other styles

florida1706

massive1723

rounded1757

round-arched1782

castellar1789

baronial1807

rational1813

English colonial1817

massy1817

transitional1817

Scottish Baronial1829

rococo1830

flamboyant1832

Scotch Baronial1833

Churrigueresque1845

Russo-Byzantine1845

soaring1849

trenchant1849

vernacular1857

Scots Baronial1864

baroque1867

Perp.1867

rayonnant1873

Dutch colonial1876

Neo-Grec1878

rococoesque1885

Richardsonian1887

federal1894

organic1896

confectionery1897

European-style1907

postmodern1916

Lutyens1921

modern1927

moderne1928

functionalist1930

Williamsburg1931

Colonial Revival1934

packing case1935

Corbusian1936

lavatorial1936

pseudish1938

Adamesque1942

rationalist1952

Miesian1956

open-planned1958

Lutyensesque1961

façade1962

Odeon1964

high-tech1979

Populuxe1986

1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 82 It is extremely difficult to describe, in words, the different characters of Early English and Decorated foliage, yet any one who attentively examines a few examples of each style, will seldom afterwards be mistaken, unless in buildings so completely transitional as to have almost every mark of both styles.

1845 R. Brown Sacred Archit. v. 67 The Gothic, having made its appearance, began to be grafted on the Norman..and frequently the two styles, by intermixing, at last formed what is called the Transitional style.

1861 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 2) iii. 47 The arches are transitional, two being round and two pointed.

1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 379 Long and wide Transitional nave with seven bays, divided by slim circular piers with scalloped capitals.

2016 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 120 571/2 The first well-preserved early Doric building discovered would have been a transitional monument whose wooden superstructure was eventually petrified under the influence of later, fully stone Doric temples elsewhere.

c. Usually with capital initial. Of or relating to a style of Chinese wares dating from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties (c1620–83) which, while retaining elements of late Ming, is characterized by innovation in form and decoration; spec. designating the blue-and-white porcelain pieces commonly exported to Dutch and other European markets. Also designating such a style. [There is no single Chinese term underlying this sense; the concept of a distinct transitional style appears to be European.]

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > Chinese

Ding1857

Wan-Li1876

Lung-ch'üan1904

Ju1906

Yüeh1910

Henan1914

transitional1945

Lungshanoid1963

1945 W. B. Honey Ceramic Art of China ii. 121 An entirely new type of blue-and-white made its appearance. Of clean, rather heavy porcelain of a soft pure white colour, this ‘Transitional’ blue-and-white..shows a distinct range of forms.

1957 Apollo June 251/1 ‘Rollwagon’ (or however you care to spell it) is still used of the cylindrical-bodied vases of the type frequently found in Transitional and K'ang Hsi blue-and-white.

1972 Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. 38 48 The Transitional wares often have a distinctive shape, tall cylinders sometimes with a flared mouth and foot and often with a knop-like waistband.

1984 Times 16 Mar. 2/6 Late Ming and Transitional blue and white porcelain pieces have been most keenly collected in Holland since the seventeenth century.

1987 Arts Asiatiques 42 2/71 The Transitional style is less easily traced in the polychrome wares.

2011 Ars Orientalis 41 58 Narrative scenes from fiction and drama became one of the most important and interesting features of these Transitional porcelains.

B. n.

Something intermediate or undergoing a transition; something temporary or passing.

ΚΠ

1871 Manch. Guardian 2 May 5/5 He was justified in saying that the transitional would not equal the expenditure.

1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 583 They [sc. mononuclear white blood cells] become transformed in the blood (according to Ehrlich) into the transitionals.

2006 Jrnl. Crustacean Biol. 26 286/1 Three male-female transitionals were found in the buccal cavities of host fish.

Compounds

transitional benefit n. a welfare payment made to a person undergoing a significant change in circumstances, such as losing employment or becoming a single parent. Originally with reference to a payment provided by the UK Unemployment Insurance Act of 1927 to unemployed workers who had exhausted all other legitimate unemployment insurance claims.

ΚΠ

1929 Irish Times 26 Nov. 10/4 The fundamental vice of the present system of unemployment insurance was that it was mixed up with uncovenanted benefits, extended benefits, and transitional benefits.

1992 S. J. Newman & A. B. Schnare Beyond Bricks & Mortar ii. 27 The importance of supportive services and transitional benefits to smooth the transition from welfare to work.

2006 Gender Issues Winter 45 A transitional benefit for single parents is an integral part of the Social Insurance system in Norway.

† transitional case n. Grammar Obsolete rare a case expressing motion toward.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > other specific cases

ablativec1400

instrumental1801

prepositional1824

allative1854

adessive1855

sociative1859

comitative1860

terminative1865

abessive1869

common case1869

translative1869

instructive1879

essive1890

transitional case1890

superessive1895

prepositional case1897

similative1903

lative1939

perlative1953

elative1959

1890 A. S. Gatschet Klamath Indians i. 484 Transitional case in -na... This locative case-suffix..corresponds to our to, toward, into, in.

transitional cell n. Histology (a) any of various types of cell in (or believed to be in) a transitional stage of development; (b) any of the cells of the transitional epithelium of the urinary tract (frequently attributive).

ΚΠ

1845 R. Owen Odontography I. p. xxxviii The chief points that remain to be determined are the relation of the dentinal pulp to the transitional cells between it and the dentine.

1890 W. Stirling Outl. Pract. Histol. 108 Transitional cells of bladder.

1916 L. W. Hill Man. Pract. Lab. Diagnosis ii. 69 They are called transitional cells, because they were formerly thought to be an intermediate stage in the development of the polymorphonuclear leucocyte.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) viii. 168 In chronic cystitis..the transitional cell epithelium of the bladder may change to a heavily keratinised squamous epithelium just like that of the mouth.

1973 Nature 8 June 348/1 Five animals also had both papillomatous outgrowths and solid down-growths of transitional cells into the sub-mucosa.

2018 Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 Mar. She was diagnosed with a rare aggressive cancer transitional cell carcinoma of the urethra.

transitional element n. [after Russian perexodnyj èlement (D. I. Mendeleev 1895, in Osnovy ximii 444 (6th ed.), or earlier)] Chemistry (now rare and chiefly historical) = transition element n. at transition n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > transition element > [noun] > group VIII

transitional element1884

transition element1892

1884 E. Frankland & F. R. Japp Inorg. Chem. x. 75 They [sc. elements of Group VIII] are termed by Mendeleef ‘transitional elements’.

1934 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 144 534 The stable form when M is a transitional element is the true nitro-form M — NO₂.

1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) lvii. 596 Mendeléeff called the elements iron, cobalt and nickel transitional elements.

transitional epithelium n. [after German Übergangsepithelium (1841 or earlier) or Übergangsepithel (1847 or earlier)] Histology a type of epithelium containing cells which are capable of changing shape from flattened to cuboidal, which forms the lining of the urinary tract; = urothelium n. at uro- comb. form¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [noun] > urinary ducts > parts of

navicular fossa1802

utriculus1848

gallinaginous crest1851

Weberian corpuscle1852

transitional epithelium1855

utricle1861

urothelium1954

1855 G. Busk tr. C. Wedl Rudim. Pathol. Histol. iv. 258 They belong to the transitional epithelium, which in the lining of the pelvis of the kidney even in the normal condition, presents the most various shapes.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxiii. 941 From the renal pelvis, which is lined by transitional epithelium, arise commonly the benign papilloma and the malignant transitional-cell carcinoma.

2015 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112 12983 (caption) Uroplakin III staining reveals the continuity of the transitional epithelium at the point of anastomosis.

transitional fossil n. a fossil organism which displays characteristics of both its (presumed) ancestral and descendant groups in combination.

ΚΠ

1850 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 369/1 They [sc. the transmutationists] are compelled..to seek a parentage for the one and the other in transitional fossils, which are hereafter to be found.

1984 R. J. Cuffey in A. Montagu Sci. & Creationism 271 The paleontologic record displays numerous sequences of transitional fossils,..morphologically and chronologically connecting earlier species with later species.

2013 New Scientist 16 Feb. 36/2 Archaeopteryx remains the iconic transitional fossil, a small predatory dinosaur caught in the act of evolving into a bird about 150 million years ago.

transitional object n. originally Psychoanalysis an object (such as a blanket, soft toy, etc.) held or carried, typically by a child, to afford reassurance by its familiarity; = comfort object n. at comfort n. Additions. These objects are so named because they facilitate the child's transition from a subjectively perceived inner consciousness to an objectively perceived external world.

ΚΠ

1951 D. W. Winnicott in Coll. Wks. (2016) III. 449 Perhaps some soft object has been offered and accepted by the infant, and this then becomes what I am calling a Transitional Object.

1990 A. Stevens On Jung v. 86 Transitional objects..possess the magical power of rendering the absent mother symbolically present.

2017 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Aug. Transitional objects like stuffed animals can help children find safety in familiarity—this is not the time to try to throw away a beloved blanket.

Derivatives

tranˈsitionally adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adverb] > provisionally or temporarily

passingly1340

pro tempore1468

while1508

temporally1530

provisionally1597

interlocutorily1620

for the nonce1672

temporarilya1686

ad interim1701

probationally1707

pro tem1777

provisorily1802

to the nonce1802

temporaneously1818

transitionally1832

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adverb]

hardlyOE

graduately1628

gradually1646

transititiously1652

gradatively1818

transitionally1832

one-on-one1860

gradationally1864

1832 Metropolitan July 308 Power on so large a scale must change hands transitionally rather than per saltum.

1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xliv. 164 This plate of mine, melted down, after being transitionally serviceable to the burglar, will enter again into the same functions among the silver of the world.

2016 Scotsman (Nexis) 18 July The Cyprus option could still be used transitionally until the positions of Scotland and Northern Ireland are renegotiated.

tranˈsitionalness n. rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience

frailnessa1300

timelinessa1500

transitoriness1550

fleeting1616

temporality1635

wanzingness1642

transiency1647

impermanency1648

undurableness1648

transientness1653

fugacity1656

evanidness1659

fugaciousness1664

timeishness1674

timesomeness1674

volatilenessa1676

fleetingness1709

deciduousness1727

fleetness1727

momentaneousness1727

preterience1730

transience1739

evanescence1751

unpermanency1751

transitiveness1775

caducity1793

impermanence1796

ephemerality1822

passingness1839

transitionalness1880

anitya1882

diariness1891

anicca1904

ephemeralness1911

1880 H. S. Paterson Stud. in Life 102 Professor Dana..does not believe in the transitionalness of these forms.

1896 Sc. Leader 1 Jan. 7 A deep sense of the transitionalness of conclusions which were once thought to be for all time.

1982 Hudson Rev. 35 309 The liminality or transitionalness of Dante's going back and forth between individual and community.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	transitional
释义	transitionaladj.n. Brit. /trɑːnˈsɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /tranˈsɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /trɑːnˈzɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /tranˈzɪʃn̩(ə)l/, U.S. /trænˈzɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Forms: see transition n. and -al suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: transition n., -al suffix¹. Etymology: < transition n. + -al suffix¹. N.E.D. (1914) also gives the pronunciation (trɑnsi·ʒənăl) /trɑːnˈsɪʒənəl/. A. adj. a. Of or relating to transition; characterized by or involving transition or change; intermediate. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective] transitory1592 transitive1660 transitional1663 transitionary1685 gradual1692 gradative1840 gradational1842 unabrupt1865 liminala1916 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxxiii. 417 This Chapter is purely transitional, and framed, by the liberty of Dialogue, to accommodate the continuity of the discourse. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 262 The Jewish Rabbis..represented the Millenium as the preparative and transitional state to perfect spiritualization. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species vi. 172 By this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. i. 3 At a transitional period in the world's developement. 1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. i. 30 Shakspere and Milton are transitional between Spenser and Dryden. 1922 J. G. Frazer Let. 26 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (2005) 381 The Kpelle of Libera are a people who seem to be in a transitional state from maternal to paternal descent. 1976 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 133 69/1 A program of transitional halfway houses for mentally ill individuals. 2013 Daily Tel. 10 Oct. 19/4 After a transitional period, the US and its allies will accept Iran's freedom. b. Architecture. Sometimes with capital initial. Designating or belonging to a style of architecture of mixed or intermediate character, esp. the combination of Romanesque and Gothic features in 12th cent. architecture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > other styles florida1706 massive1723 rounded1757 round-arched1782 castellar1789 baronial1807 rational1813 English colonial1817 massy1817 transitional1817 Scottish Baronial1829 rococo1830 flamboyant1832 Scotch Baronial1833 Churrigueresque1845 Russo-Byzantine1845 soaring1849 trenchant1849 vernacular1857 Scots Baronial1864 baroque1867 Perp.1867 rayonnant1873 Dutch colonial1876 Neo-Grec1878 rococoesque1885 Richardsonian1887 federal1894 organic1896 confectionery1897 European-style1907 postmodern1916 Lutyens1921 modern1927 moderne1928 functionalist1930 Williamsburg1931 Colonial Revival1934 packing case1935 Corbusian1936 lavatorial1936 pseudish1938 Adamesque1942 rationalist1952 Miesian1956 open-planned1958 Lutyensesque1961 façade1962 Odeon1964 high-tech1979 Populuxe1986 1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 82 It is extremely difficult to describe, in words, the different characters of Early English and Decorated foliage, yet any one who attentively examines a few examples of each style, will seldom afterwards be mistaken, unless in buildings so completely transitional as to have almost every mark of both styles. 1845 R. Brown Sacred Archit. v. 67 The Gothic, having made its appearance, began to be grafted on the Norman..and frequently the two styles, by intermixing, at last formed what is called the Transitional style. 1861 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 2) iii. 47 The arches are transitional, two being round and two pointed. 1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 379 Long and wide Transitional nave with seven bays, divided by slim circular piers with scalloped capitals. 2016 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 120 571/2 The first well-preserved early Doric building discovered would have been a transitional monument whose wooden superstructure was eventually petrified under the influence of later, fully stone Doric temples elsewhere. c. Usually with capital initial. Of or relating to a style of Chinese wares dating from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties (c1620–83) which, while retaining elements of late Ming, is characterized by innovation in form and decoration; spec. designating the blue-and-white porcelain pieces commonly exported to Dutch and other European markets. Also designating such a style. [There is no single Chinese term underlying this sense; the concept of a distinct transitional style appears to be European.] ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > Chinese Ding1857 Wan-Li1876 Lung-ch'üan1904 Ju1906 Yüeh1910 Henan1914 transitional1945 Lungshanoid1963 1945 W. B. Honey Ceramic Art of China ii. 121 An entirely new type of blue-and-white made its appearance. Of clean, rather heavy porcelain of a soft pure white colour, this ‘Transitional’ blue-and-white..shows a distinct range of forms. 1957 Apollo June 251/1 ‘Rollwagon’ (or however you care to spell it) is still used of the cylindrical-bodied vases of the type frequently found in Transitional and K'ang Hsi blue-and-white. 1972 Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. 38 48 The Transitional wares often have a distinctive shape, tall cylinders sometimes with a flared mouth and foot and often with a knop-like waistband. 1984 Times 16 Mar. 2/6 Late Ming and Transitional blue and white porcelain pieces have been most keenly collected in Holland since the seventeenth century. 1987 Arts Asiatiques 42 2/71 The Transitional style is less easily traced in the polychrome wares. 2011 Ars Orientalis 41 58 Narrative scenes from fiction and drama became one of the most important and interesting features of these Transitional porcelains. B. n. Something intermediate or undergoing a transition; something temporary or passing. ΚΠ 1871 Manch. Guardian 2 May 5/5 He was justified in saying that the transitional would not equal the expenditure. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 583 They [sc. mononuclear white blood cells] become transformed in the blood (according to Ehrlich) into the transitionals. 2006 Jrnl. Crustacean Biol. 26 286/1 Three male-female transitionals were found in the buccal cavities of host fish. Compounds transitional benefit n. a welfare payment made to a person undergoing a significant change in circumstances, such as losing employment or becoming a single parent. Originally with reference to a payment provided by the UK Unemployment Insurance Act of 1927 to unemployed workers who had exhausted all other legitimate unemployment insurance claims. ΚΠ 1929 Irish Times 26 Nov. 10/4 The fundamental vice of the present system of unemployment insurance was that it was mixed up with uncovenanted benefits, extended benefits, and transitional benefits. 1992 S. J. Newman & A. B. Schnare Beyond Bricks & Mortar ii. 27 The importance of supportive services and transitional benefits to smooth the transition from welfare to work. 2006 Gender Issues Winter 45 A transitional benefit for single parents is an integral part of the Social Insurance system in Norway. † transitional case n. Grammar Obsolete rare a case expressing motion toward. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > other specific cases ablativec1400 instrumental1801 prepositional1824 allative1854 adessive1855 sociative1859 comitative1860 terminative1865 abessive1869 common case1869 translative1869 instructive1879 essive1890 transitional case1890 superessive1895 prepositional case1897 similative1903 lative1939 perlative1953 elative1959 1890 A. S. Gatschet Klamath Indians i. 484 Transitional case in -na... This locative case-suffix..corresponds to our to, toward, into, in. transitional cell n. Histology (a) any of various types of cell in (or believed to be in) a transitional stage of development; (b) any of the cells of the transitional epithelium of the urinary tract (frequently attributive). ΚΠ 1845 R. Owen Odontography I. p. xxxviii The chief points that remain to be determined are the relation of the dentinal pulp to the transitional cells between it and the dentine. 1890 W. Stirling Outl. Pract. Histol. 108 Transitional cells of bladder. 1916 L. W. Hill Man. Pract. Lab. Diagnosis ii. 69 They are called transitional cells, because they were formerly thought to be an intermediate stage in the development of the polymorphonuclear leucocyte. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) viii. 168 In chronic cystitis..the transitional cell epithelium of the bladder may change to a heavily keratinised squamous epithelium just like that of the mouth. 1973 Nature 8 June 348/1 Five animals also had both papillomatous outgrowths and solid down-growths of transitional cells into the sub-mucosa. 2018 Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 Mar. She was diagnosed with a rare aggressive cancer transitional cell carcinoma of the urethra. transitional element n. [after Russian perexodnyj èlement (D. I. Mendeleev 1895, in Osnovy ximii 444 (6th ed.), or earlier)] Chemistry (now rare and chiefly historical) = transition element n. at transition n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > transition element > [noun] > group VIII transitional element1884 transition element1892 1884 E. Frankland & F. R. Japp Inorg. Chem. x. 75 They [sc. elements of Group VIII] are termed by Mendeleef ‘transitional elements’. 1934 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 144 534 The stable form when M is a transitional element is the true nitro-form M — NO₂. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) lvii. 596 Mendeléeff called the elements iron, cobalt and nickel transitional elements. transitional epithelium n. [after German Übergangsepithelium (1841 or earlier) or Übergangsepithel (1847 or earlier)] Histology a type of epithelium containing cells which are capable of changing shape from flattened to cuboidal, which forms the lining of the urinary tract; = urothelium n. at uro- comb. form¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [noun] > urinary ducts > parts of navicular fossa1802 utriculus1848 gallinaginous crest1851 Weberian corpuscle1852 transitional epithelium1855 utricle1861 urothelium1954 1855 G. Busk tr. C. Wedl Rudim. Pathol. Histol. iv. 258 They belong to the transitional epithelium, which in the lining of the pelvis of the kidney even in the normal condition, presents the most various shapes. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxiii. 941 From the renal pelvis, which is lined by transitional epithelium, arise commonly the benign papilloma and the malignant transitional-cell carcinoma. 2015 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112 12983 (caption) Uroplakin III staining reveals the continuity of the transitional epithelium at the point of anastomosis. transitional fossil n. a fossil organism which displays characteristics of both its (presumed) ancestral and descendant groups in combination. ΚΠ 1850 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 369/1 They [sc. the transmutationists] are compelled..to seek a parentage for the one and the other in transitional fossils, which are hereafter to be found. 1984 R. J. Cuffey in A. Montagu Sci. & Creationism 271 The paleontologic record displays numerous sequences of transitional fossils,..morphologically and chronologically connecting earlier species with later species. 2013 New Scientist 16 Feb. 36/2 Archaeopteryx remains the iconic transitional fossil, a small predatory dinosaur caught in the act of evolving into a bird about 150 million years ago. transitional object n. originally Psychoanalysis an object (such as a blanket, soft toy, etc.) held or carried, typically by a child, to afford reassurance by its familiarity; = comfort object n. at comfort n. Additions. These objects are so named because they facilitate the child's transition from a subjectively perceived inner consciousness to an objectively perceived external world. ΚΠ 1951 D. W. Winnicott in Coll. Wks. (2016) III. 449 Perhaps some soft object has been offered and accepted by the infant, and this then becomes what I am calling a Transitional Object. 1990 A. Stevens On Jung v. 86 Transitional objects..possess the magical power of rendering the absent mother symbolically present. 2017 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Aug. Transitional objects like stuffed animals can help children find safety in familiarity—this is not the time to try to throw away a beloved blanket. Derivatives tranˈsitionally adv. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adverb] > provisionally or temporarily passingly1340 pro tempore1468 while1508 temporally1530 provisionally1597 interlocutorily1620 for the nonce1672 temporarilya1686 ad interim1701 probationally1707 pro tem1777 provisorily1802 to the nonce1802 temporaneously1818 transitionally1832 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adverb] hardlyOE graduately1628 gradually1646 transititiously1652 gradatively1818 transitionally1832 one-on-one1860 gradationally1864 1832 Metropolitan July 308 Power on so large a scale must change hands transitionally rather than per saltum. 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xliv. 164 This plate of mine, melted down, after being transitionally serviceable to the burglar, will enter again into the same functions among the silver of the world. 2016 Scotsman (Nexis) 18 July The Cyprus option could still be used transitionally until the positions of Scotland and Northern Ireland are renegotiated. tranˈsitionalness n. rare ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience frailnessa1300 timelinessa1500 transitoriness1550 fleeting1616 temporality1635 wanzingness1642 transiency1647 impermanency1648 undurableness1648 transientness1653 fugacity1656 evanidness1659 fugaciousness1664 timeishness1674 timesomeness1674 volatilenessa1676 fleetingness1709 deciduousness1727 fleetness1727 momentaneousness1727 preterience1730 transience1739 evanescence1751 unpermanency1751 transitiveness1775 caducity1793 impermanence1796 ephemerality1822 passingness1839 transitionalness1880 anitya1882 diariness1891 anicca1904 ephemeralness1911 1880 H. S. Paterson Stud. in Life 102 Professor Dana..does not believe in the transitionalness of these forms. 1896 Sc. Leader 1 Jan. 7 A deep sense of the transitionalness of conclusions which were once thought to be for all time. 1982 Hudson Rev. 35 309 The liminality or transitionalness of Dante's going back and forth between individual and community. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1663
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