Transpire

Definition: Transpire

Transpire

Verb

1. Pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas.

2. Exude water vapor; of plants.

3. Come to light; become known; "It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany".

4. Come about, happen, or occur; "Several important events transpired last week".

5. Give off (water) through the skin.

Date "transpire" was first used: 1597. (references)

Note: Transpire \Tran*spire"\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Transpired; Transpiring.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Tips from 1870	Usage: Transpire, Happen. This word, from trans, across, through, and spirare, to breathe, means, physiologically, to pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration, or, botanically, to evaporate from living cells. Its general meaning is to become known, to escape from secrecy. It is frequently employed in the sense of to occur, to come to pass, but this use is condemned by the best critics in England and America. "The proceedings of the secret session of the council soon transpired." This sentence illustrates the true meaning of the word. Source: Slips of Speech.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Transpire

Synonym: transpirate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disclosure	Be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight; (be visible); become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover; itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
Manifestation	Be manifest; Adjective: appear; (be visible); transpire; (be disclosed); speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face, rear its head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell its own tale; (intelligible).
News	Verb: transpire; (be disclosed); rumor; (publish).
Vaporization	Verb: render -gaseous; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate; finestill.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Transpire

English words defined with "transpire": Transpired. (references)

Specialty definitions using "transpire": Cross-bones ♦ Friend ♦ Happen ♦ Pagoda ♦ Will. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Transpire" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (perspires).

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Transpire" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Transpire" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	95.65%	22	74,468
Noun (singular)	4.35%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

Language		Translations for "transpire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përhapem (dilate, enlarge, expatiate, extend, get about, get along, outspread, overreach, overspread, permeate, pervade, proliferate, Ravel, reach, spill out, spread), ngjet (become, come, fall out, happen), ndodh (become, befall, chance, come about, come off, come to pass, eventuate, exist, fall, fall out, hap, happen, occur, pass, set). (various references)

Arabic		‏حدث (befall, calamity, come, come about, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, fall out, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, work, young, youngish, youngling, youngster), ‏ترشح (candidate, elect, filter, nominate, oozing, percolate, present, put in, run, run for office, stand), ‏عرق (perspiration, perspire, race, strain, sweat, vein), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, unfold, unroll), ‏إتضح (appear, become clear, brighten up, clarify, uncloud), ‏رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leach, leak, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, percolate, secrete, seep, still, sweat, transpiration, trickle). (various references)

Bulgarian		ставам разкрит, ставам (arise, become, come, come round, eventuate, fit, get, get up, grow, intervene, occur, pass, proceed, pull up, rise, roll out, run, stand, take place, turn, turn out, up), случвам се (befall, chance, come, come about, eventuate, fall, fall out, intervene, occur, pass, rise, take place), отделям чрез кожата, отделям чрез белите дробове, изхвърлям чрез кожата, изхвърлям чрез белите дробове, излизам наяве (come out, come to light, emerge, out, outcrop, overlap), избивам във вид на капки пот, изпотявам се (exude, sweat). (various references)

Chinese		�'�发 (Evaporate, Evaporated, Evaporating, Evaporation, evaporative, Transpired, transpiring, Vapored, Vaporing). (various references)

Czech		vypařovat se (steam, vaporize, volatilize), vyjít najevo (appear, come out, come out into the open, emerge, unfold), rozšířit se (dilate, get about, get abroad, outspread, outstretch, overrun, overspread), potit se (sweat, swelter). (various references)

Farsi		فاش شدن (Out), فراتراویدن , نفوذکردن (Infiltrate, Leak, Percolate, Permeate, Pervade), نشرکردن (Edit, Infiltrate), رویدادن , رخنه کردن (Penetrate), بیرون امدن (Emanate, Emerge, Exude, Issue, Pullout), بخارپس دادن . (various references)

Finnish		käydä ilmi (be evident, be seen, emerge). (various references)

French		transpirer, se passer, s'ébruiter, arriver, apparaître. (various references)

German		schwitzen (bleed, bleeding, brown in fat, ooze, perspiration, perspire, steam up, sweat, sweating, to sweat). (various references)

Greek		συμβαίνω (bechance, befall, betide, chance, come about, fall out, fortune, go on, go on 1, go on 2, hap, happen, occur, pass off, turn up), εξιδρώνω, αναδίδω (emit, produce), αναδίδομαι, αποκαλύπτομαι, διαπνέω (pervade), διαπνέομαι. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"תברר (be purified, become clear), ל�"תרחש (befall, come about, eventuate, hap, happen, occur, take place). (various references)

Hungarian		kipárolog (to transpire). (various references)

Indonesian		berpeluh (perspire, sweaty), berkeringat (perspire, sweaty). (various references)

Italian		traspirare (perspire, sweat), trasparire (shine through), trapelare (leak, leak out, ooze out, seep out), accadere (be, befall, chance, come, come about, ensue, happen, intervene, occur, pass, take place). (various references)

Manx		haghyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		anspiretray

Portuguese		transpirar (exude, perspire, sweat), tornar-se conhecido, suceder (arrive, befall, betide, chance, come about, cut in, ensue, eventuate, get along, happen, intervene, occur, pass off, succeed), exalar-se, exalar (breathe, die, exhale, expire, fling), acontecer (become, become of, befall, betide, chance, come, come about, cut in, ensue, eventuate, fare, get, grow, happen, intervene, occur, take place). (various references)

Romanian		transpira (exude, filter, leak, melt, perspire, slip out, sweat), se întâmpla (be up, become, befall, betide, chance, come, come about, come of, fortune, hap, happen, hit, occur, pass), asuda (grind, reek, steam, sweat, swelter, toil). (various references)

Russian		просачиваться (infiltrate, infiltrating, leak, leaked, percolate, seep, silt through), испаряться (exhale, fume, vaporize, volatilize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		obelodaniti se, izdisati (breathe out, exhale), ispariti (evaporate, irrigate, steam, volatilize), isparavati se (steam), desiti se (come about, eventuate, happen, occur). (various references)

Spanish		transpirar (perspire, sweat), tener lugar (come about, come off, happen, occur, take place), revelarse (break, come out, unfold), resultar que (accrue, ensue, hatch). (various references)

Swedish		sippra ut (exude, seep), avdunsta (evaporate, vaporize). (various references)

Turkish		terlemek (be hot, exude, ooze with sweat, perspire, sweat, swelter), sızmak (creep, effuse, emanate, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak, leak out, ooze, ooze out, percolate, permeate, run, run out, seep, transude, trickle, weep), sızdırmak (chisel, drag out, drip, effuse, exude, leak, leak out, ooze, percolate, suck, take in, wheedle smth. out of smb., work), kokusu çıkmak. (various references)

Ukrainian		відбуватися (arrive, be in progress, betide, come about, come off, develop, emanate, hap, happen, intervene, occur, proceed), виявлятися (come out, come to light, prove, show up), просочуватися (filter, funnel, infiltrate, leak, leak in, leak out, ooze, percolate, seep, soak, soak through). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	trans-. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "transpire": transpired, transpires. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Transpire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: transair, Tranzair, trasnspire. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "transpire" (pronounced transpī"er)
5	-n s p ī" er	conspire.
4	-s p ī" er	Spier.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pretrains, terrapins.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-p-r-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: painters, pantries, partiers, partners, pertains, pinaster, pretrain, printers, pristane, repaints, reprints, restrain, retrains, sprinter, strainer, terrains, terrapin, trainers.
	-2 letters: anestri, antsier, arpents, artsier, aspirer, entraps, errants, nastier, painter, paniers, panties, parents, parries, partier, parties, partner, pastern, pastier, patines, pertain, piaster, piastre, pirates, praiser, praters, printer, pterins, ranters, rapiers, rapines, raspier, ratines, repaint.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-p-r-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: pretorians, transpired, transpires.
	+2 letters: carpentries, interparish, partnership, parturients, perorations, praetorians, printmakers, reparations, respiration, springwater, transpierce.
	+3 letters: arsenopyrite, chiropterans, impersonator, impregnators, incorporates, partitioners, partnerships, peregrinates, perforations, perspiration, platyrrhines, prehistorian, preparations, presbyterian, preservation, probationers, procreations, proletarians, proteinurias, reapportions, reoperations, repartitions, replastering, repristinate, reprobations, respirations, springwaters, trampoliners, transpierced, transpierces.
	+4 letters: antipredators, arsenopyrites, copartnership, impersonators, intercompares, interpersonal, interpleaders, interpolators, intrapersonal, intrapreneurs, perpetrations, perseverating, perseveration, perspirations, perturbations, practitioners, predestinator, preformations, prehistorians, preindustrial, premarketings, preservations, procrastinate, protonotaries, recuperations, repatriations, repristinated, repristinates, superordinate, superromantic, temporariness, terpsichorean, transcriptase, transpiercing, trichopterans.
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