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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tran•spi•ra•tion (tran′spə rā′shən),USA pronunciation n. - an action or instance of transpiring.
- [Bot.]the passage of water through a plant from the roots through the vascular system to the atmosphere.
- French or Neo-Latin
- 1545–55; trans- + Latin spīrātiōn-, stem of spīrātiō breathing (spīrāt(us), past participle of spīrāre to breathe + -iōn- -ion); perh. directly
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tran•spire /trænˈspaɪr/USA pronunciation v., -spired, -spir•ing. - to occur; happen;
take place:[no object]What transpired next is not known exactly. - to be revealed or become known:[It + ~ + that clause]It transpired that she had been seeing another man.
- [no object] to emit waste matter, etc., through the surface, as of leaves or the body.
tran•spi•ra•tion /ˌtrænspəˈreɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]See -spir-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tran•spire (tran spīər′),USA pronunciation v., -spired, -spir•ing. v.i. - to occur; happen;
take place. - to emit or give off waste matter, watery vapor, etc., through the surface, as of the body or of leaves.
- to escape, as moisture or odor, through or as if through pores.
- to be revealed or become known.
v.t. - to emit or give off (waste matter, watery vapor, an odor, etc.) through the surface, as of the body or of leaves.
- Medieval Latin trānspīrāre, equivalent. to Latin trāns- trans- + spīrāre to breathe
- Middle French transpirer
- 1590–1600
1. From its earlier literal sense "to escape as vapor'' transpire came to mean "to escape from concealment, become known'' in the 18th century. Somewhat later, it developed the meaning "to occur, happen,'' a sentence such asHe was not aware of what had transpired yesterdaybeing taken to meanHe was not aware of what had happened yesterday.In spite of two centuries of use in all varieties of speech and writing, this now common meaning is still objected to by some on the grounds that it arose from a misapprehension of the word's true meaning. |