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Transitive

Having the power of making a transit, or passage.

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Verb 76% connected

A word; a vocable.

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Auxiliary verb noun · 86% connection

a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with

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Infinitive noun · 86% connection

the uninflected form of the verb

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Intransitive verb noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

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Intransitive verb form noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

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Participial noun · 86% connection

a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

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Participle noun · 86% connection

a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

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Transitive verb noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

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Transitive verb form noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

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Adjective adjective · 85% connection

relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law"

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Adverb noun · 85% connection

the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses

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Adverbial adjective · 85% connection

of or relating to or functioning as an adverb; "adverbial syntax"

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Clause noun · 85% connection

(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence

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Coordinate clause noun · 85% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function

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Dependent adjective · 85% connection

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Dependent clause noun · 85% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adje…

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Nominal noun · 85% connection

a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

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Nominal phrase noun · 85% connection

a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

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Noun noun · 85% connection

the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

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Alley noun · 78% connection

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, making, transit, passage.
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Block noun · 78% connection

To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of p…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, making, transit, passage.
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Bore verb · 78% connection

To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage…

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Chophouse noun · 78% connection

A customhouse where transit duties are levied.

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Citation noun · 78% connection

The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.

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Cross verb · 78% connection

To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.

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Culmination noun · 78% connection

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

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Egress noun · 78% connection

The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.

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Entrepot noun · 78% connection

A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shippi…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, making, transit, passage.
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Exposition noun · 78% connection

The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put up…

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Fauces n.pl. · 78% connection

The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isth…

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Flue noun · 78% connection

An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage

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