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Transitive

a.
  1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage.
  2. Effected by transference of signification.
  3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book.