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Definition: Transient |
TransientAdjective1. (philosophy) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind. 2. Enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms". Noun1. One who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers". 2. (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "transient" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Transient \Tran"sient\, adjective. [Latin transiens, -entis, personal pronoun of transire, transitum, to go or pass over. See Trance.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Transient |
Electrical Engineering | Qualifies a pulse, damped oscillation, or other temporary phenomenon occurring in a system prior to reaching a steady-state condition. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Of a surge, in the context of power-device ratings. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Characterises a change from one steady state to another. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Said of a circuit when the normal control path is disconnected. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Short-duration electrical impulse having steep leading edge and repeated irregularly. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | A change in the reactor coolant system temperature and/or pressure due to a change in power output of the reactor. Transients can be caused (1) by adding or removing neutron poisons, (2) by that is increasing or decreasing electrical load on the turbine generator, or (3) by accident conditions. (references) |
Military | An individual awaiting orders, transport, etc., at a post or station to which he is not attached or assigned. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Polish (l/ajza). (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TRAC | English | Transient radiation analysis by computer | N/A |
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Synonyms: TransientSynonyms: ephemeral (adj), fugacious (adj), passing (adj), short-lived (adj), transeunt (adj), transitory (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: immanent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering. |
Transientness | Verb: be transient; Adjective: flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade, evaporate; pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away like a shadow, pass away like a dream. |
Transient, transient boarder, transient guest. | |
Adjective: transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying; Verb: fugacious, fugitive; shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My mind is aglow with whirling transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of intervention. (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger) My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention! (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) It's transient, and then it's gone. (Washington Square; writing credit: Carol Doyle) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Transient Lady (1935) | |
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 | Transient labor camp. Pere Marquette recreational demonstration project near Grafton, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Men in transient camp near Hagerman Lake, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The roads are so bad to the transient camp at Hagerman Lake, Michigan, that it is necessary to haul supplies by mud sled for the last quarter mile. The camp has no telephone system and no resident doctor. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man making baskets at transient camp. Hagerman Lake, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro transient agricultural laborers quarters. Homestead, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Member of the transient camp. Hagerman Lake, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Luggage with transient in front. Grand Forks, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Housing for Mexican transient workers on ranch southwest of Mendota, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boxing. Transient workers living at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory farm labor camp. Athena, Oregon (mobile unit). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tents for transient Mexican labor brought from Texas by contractor for the duration of cotton picking season. Hopson Plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Baudelaire | Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. (reference) |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. |
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Health | This could be a mini-stroke, called a transient ischemic attack (TIA). (references) | |
Individuals may satisfactorily cope with insomnia, and it may be transient. (references) | ||
Patients with spasmodic dysphonias also are subject to transient dysphagia. (references) | ||
Business | An increased number of immigrants from China's large transient population seek to take advantage of these new economic opportunities. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yemen | On January 1 and 2, explosive devices were detonated in Aden outside the Anglican Christ Church, which is used as a transient hotel by seamen, and the official SABA News Agency office. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nauru | The transient nature of the mostly foreign work force and the relative prosperity of the citizenry also have served to hamper efforts to organize the labor force. (references) |
China | However, in recent years, freer movement of persons throughout China, government-sponsored development, and the prospect of economic opportunity in Tibet have led to a substantial increase in the non-Tibetan population (including China's Muslim Hui minority as well as Han Chinese) in Lhasa and other urban areas as migrant workers from China's large transient population seek to take advantage of these new economic opportunities. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield. |
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| "Transient" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.78% of the time. "Transient" is used about 277 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.78% | 257 | 18,451 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.42% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.81% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 277 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "transient": aircraft transient servicing ♦ anticipated transient without scram ♦ cast a transient glance at ♦ cast a transient look at ♦ random chimeragenesis on a transient template ♦ snatch a transient look at ♦ transient boarder ♦ transient global amnesia ♦ transient guest ♦ transient information ♦ transient intermodulation distortion ♦ transient ischemic attack ♦ Transient Ischemic Attacks ♦ transient overpower ♦ transient phenomena ♦ transient pilot ♦ transient Program Area ♦ transient worker. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | klient i rastit, i rastit (adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incident, incidental, makeshift, occasional, odd, passing, random, scratch, stray), i përkohshëm (acting, impermanent, interim, interjacent, pro tem, temporal, temporary, transitional, transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نزيل عابر, وقتي (passing, precarious, temporary), سريع الزوال (ephemeral, evanescent, flighty, fragile, fugacious, transitory, volatile), زائل (evanescent, impermanent, temporal, transitory), عابر (ephemeral, fleeting, in transit, parlous, passing, precarious, sneak, stealthy, tenuous, transitory), ضيف قصير الإقامة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кратък (brief, compact, concise, curt, horary, little, near, short, swift, transitory), временен (ambulatory, fly-by-night, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, makeshift, provisional, provisory, temporary, tentative, working), неустойчив (infirm, insecure, labile, non-persistent, rickety, top heavy, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, weak), мимолетен (evanescent, evasive, fugacious, passing, short lived, swift, vaporous), преходен (caducous, deciduous, fleeting, fugitive, in between, intermediate, passing, temporal, temporary, transit, transition, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding), приходящ (non-resident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 瞬变, 槿 (Hibiscus syriacus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pomíjivý (passing, perishable), přechodný (fugacious, intermediate, momentary, passing, temporary, transitional, transitive, transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | transient (spike), indsvingning, afbrydelse (interruption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | transiënt, voorbijgaand (acute), uitschakeling (cutting off, deactivation, open), sprong (jump, leap), overgangs-, overgang (gangway, gate, level crossing, passage, passageway), overgaand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فانی (Earthborn, Memnetary, Mortal, Transitory), فراگذر, ناپایدار (Changeable, Impermanent, Ramshackle, Transitory), کوتاه (Concise, Dumpy, Laconic, Little, Low, Miniature, Punch, Short, Stocky, Stunt, Succinct), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), زودگذر (Ephemeral, Fleet, Frail, Glancing, Glint, Light, Memnetary, Perishable, Shadowy, Temporary, Transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ohimenevä (passing, transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transitoire (transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vorübergehend (momentary, passing, short, temporarily, temporary, transiently, transitional, transitorily, transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταβατικό-ή, μεταβατικός (linking, transistional), παροδικόσ (evanescent, impermanent, transitory), απότομη, διακοπή (abortion, adjournment, break, breather, disconnection, discontinuance, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, pause, recess, respite, severance, vacation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חולף (ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, passing, transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | múló (caducous, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, passing), futóvendég (transient visitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sekejap (a second). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | transitorio (fleeting, meteoric, momentary, temporary, transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 泡沫 (bubble on surface of liquid, ephemeral), ' (frivolous, futile, gang, party, set, vain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うたかた (bubble on surface of liquid, ephemeral), つかのま (brief, brief time, moment), ほうまつてき (ephemeral, fleeting, like a bubble on liquid, passing), ほうまつ (bubble on surface of liquid, ephemeral), かと'"しょう, いっかせい, あ (enemy, enmity, evil, feud, foe, frivolous, futile, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, ruin, vain), はかない (empty, ephemeral, fickle, fleeting, miserable, momentary, short-lived, vain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 일시 (Casual, Episodic, temporal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shallidagh (acting, interim, irregular, make do, nisi, provisional, provisory, temporary, tentative, transitional), neuveayn (ephemeral, fluid, impermanent, non-durable, passing, short-lived, temporary, transitory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ansienttray transitório (brief, deciduous, ephemeral, fleeting, frail, fugacious, makeshift, momentary, passing, perishable, perishing, temporary, transitional, transitory), passageiro (ephemeral, faddy, fare, fleet, momentary, passing, perfunctory, rider, temporary, transitional, transitory, wayfarer). (various references) trecãtor (bystander, evanescent, foot passenger, fugacious, fungous, goer, momentary, passer, passer by, passing, pedestrian, temporary, transitory), tranzitoriu (transitory), vremelnic (ephemeral, fleeting, temporal, temporarily, temporary, transitory), rapid (cursory, express, fast, quick, rakish, rapid, spanking, speedy, swift), pasager trecãtor, grãbit (hasty, hurried, hurriedly, quick, rash, rattling, swift), fugitiv (fugitive, runaway, shy), efemer (diurnal, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, fungous, momentary, passing, short lived, temporary), întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, contingent, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, odd, random). (various references) временный жилец, мимолетный (evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, passing, short lived, transitory), преходящий (ephemeral, passing, temporal, transitory, unabiding). (various references) aiteal (breeze, glimpse, transient view). (various references) prolazan (brief, caducous, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, fugacious, momentary, negotiable, passable, passing, perishable, pervious, temporary, transitory), prelazan (passing, transition, transitive), nestalan (changeable, erratic, fickle, fleeting, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, shifty, skittish, unabiding, unsteady, versatile, volatile, voluble), nepostojan (changeable, evanescent, fugacious, impermanent, inconstant, labile, transitory, unabiding, vacillating). (various references) transitorio (remand, temporary, transitory). (various references) övergående (fly-by-night, passing, transitory). (various references) süreksiz (impermanent, transitory), kısa süreli konuk, geçici dalga, geçici (ad interim, Band aid, casual, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, fugacious, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transitory, volatile), geçerken uğrayan, fani (earth-born, earthling, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fleet, fleeting, transitory). (various references) щось випадкове, тимчасовий постоялець, швидкоплинний (fleeting, fugitive, galloping, profluent, torrential), несталий (catching, changeable, fickle, inconstant, mobile, mutable, versatile). (various references) nhất thời (impermanent, momentary, momently, precarious, temporary, transitory, unabiding), nhanh (apace, brisk, cursory, quick, quickly, rapid, short order, tearing, volant), ngắn ngủi (momentary), khách trọ ngắn ng y, khách ở lại thời gian ngắn, chóng t n tạm thời thoáng qua. (various references) darfodedig (perishable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fluxum, fluxus, labilis, mortale, mortalem, mortales, mortali, mortalia, mortalibus, mortalis, mortalium, volucre, volucrem, volucres, volucresque, volucri, volucribus, volucris, volucrum. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | transitorius. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 2 Peter Chapter 3, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hxei de h hmera kuriou wV klepthV en nukti en h oi ouranoi roizhdon pareleusontai stoiceia de kausoumena luqhsontai kai gh kai ta en auth erga katakahsetai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Adveniet autem dies Domini ut fur in qua caeli magno impetu transient elementa vero calore solventur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For the dai of the Lord schal come as a theef, in which heuenes with greet bire schulen passe, and elementis schulen be dissoluyd bi heete, and the erthe, and alle the werkis that ben in it, schulen be brent. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Neverthelesse ye daye of the lorde will come as a thefe in ye nyght in the which daye ye hevens shall perisshe with terrible noyes and the elemetes shall melt with heet and the erth with the workes that are therin shall burne. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein will be burned up. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up. |
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| Language | 2 Peter Chapter 3, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Apan ang adlaw sa Ginoo moabut sama sa usa ka kawatan, ug unya ang mga langit mawagtang uban sa dakung dinagook, ug ang mga kasugdanan sa kalibutan mangatunaw sa hilabihang kainit, ug pagasunogon ang yuta ug ang mga buhat nga ania niini. |
| Croatian | Kao tat æe doæi Dan Gospodnji u koji æe nebesa trijeskom uminuti, poèela se, užarena, raspasti, a zemlja i djela na njoj razotkriti. |
| Danish | Men Herrens Dag skal komme som en Tyv; på den skulle Himlene forgå med stort Bulder, og Elementerne skulle komme i Brand og opløses, og Jorden og alt, hvad der er på den, skal opbrændes. |
| Dutch | Maar de dag des Heeren zal komen als een dief in den nacht, in welken de hemelen met een gedruis zullen voorbijgaan, en de elementen branden zullen en vergaan, en de aarde en de werken, die daarin zijn, zullen verbranden. |
| Finnish | Mutta Herran päivä on tuleva niinkuin varas, ja silloin taivaat katoavat pauhinalla, ja alkuaineet kuumuudesta hajoavat, ja maa ja kaikki, mitä siihen on tehty, palavat. |
| French | Le jour du Seigneur viendra comme un voleur; en ce jour, les cieux passeront avec fracas, les éléments embrasés se dissoudront, et la terre avec les oeuvres qu`elle renferme sera consumée. |
| German | Es wird aber des HERRN Tag kommen wie ein Dieb in der Nacht, an welchem die Himmel zergehen werden mit großem Krachen; die Elemente aber werden vor Hitze schmelzen, und die Erde und die Werke, die darauf sind, werden verbrennen. |
| Hungarian | Az Úr napja pedig úgy jõ majd el, mint éjjeli tolvaj, a mikor az egek ropogva elmúlnak, az elemek pedig megégve felbomlanak, és a föld és a rajta lévõ dolgok is megégnek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi Hari kedatangan Tuhan akan tiba seperti pencuri. Pada Hari itu, langit akan lenyap dengan bunyi gemuruh, dan benda-benda di langit akan musnah terbakar, dan bumi dengan segala yang ada di dalamnya akan lenyap. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi Hari Tuhan itu akan tiba kelak seperti pencuri; lalu segala langit itu akan lenyap dengan bunyi yang sangat dahsyat, dan segala anasir akan terbakar lalu hancur, dan bumi serta segala perbuatan yang ada di dalamnya akan dihanguskan. |
| Italian | Il giorno del Signore verr come un ladro; allora i cieli con fragore passeranno, gli elementi consumati dal calore si dissolveranno e la terra con quanto c'è in essa sar distrutta. |
| Latvian | Bet Kunga diena atnâks kâ zaglis; tad debesis ar lielu troksni zudîs, pamatvielas karstumâ izirs, bet zeme un viss, kas uz tâs raþots, sadegs. |
| Maori | E puta mai hoki te ra o te Ariki ano he tahae i te po; ko reira pahemo atu ai nga rangi, tona nui hoki o te tangi; na ka ngiha nga mea timatanga i te ahi, ka rewa; a pau ake i te ahi te whenua me ana mahi. |
| Norwegian | Men Herrens dag skal komme som en tyv, og da skal himlene forgå med stort brak, og himmellegemene skal komme i brand og opløses, og jorden og tingene på den skal opbrennes. |
| Portuguese | Virá, pois, como ladrão o dia do Senhor, no qual os céus passarão com grande estrondo, e os elementos, ardendo, se dissolverão, e a terra, e as obras que nela há, serão descobertas. |
| Rumanian | Ziua Domnului knsq va veni ca un hoy. Kn ziua aceea, cerurile vor trece cu troznet, trupurile cerewti se vor topi de mare cqldurq, wi pqmkntul, cu tot ce este pe el, va arde. |
| Russian | рТЙ"ЕФ ЦЕ "ЕОШ зПУ П"ЕОШ, ЛБЛ ФБФШ ОПЮША, Й ФПЗ"Б ОЕ'ЕУБ У ЫХНПН ТЕК"ХФ, УФЙИЙЙ ЦЕ, ТБЪЗПТЕЧЫЙУШ, ТБЪТХЫБФУС, ЪЕНМС Й ЧУЕ "ЕМБ ОБ ОЕК УЗПТСФ. |
| Shuar | Túrasha Uunta tsawantri aya aneachma jeattawai. Kasa aya aneachma kiritniunam taana Núnisan Tátatui. Nu tsawantin nayaimpisha ipiamta Núnis Charáa timiatai menkakattawai. Tura nui Ashí írunna Núurtiuk esaawartatui. Tura nunkasha tura Ashí írunna nusha esaawartatui. |
| Swahili | Siku ya Bwana itakuja kama mwizi. Siku hiyo, mbingu zitatoweka kwa kishindo kikuu; vitu vyake vya asili vitateketezwa kwa moto, nayo dunia itatoweka pamoja na kila kitu kilichomo ndani yake. |
| Uma | Aga bate rata moto-i mpai' Pue' -e! Pai' karata-na toe mekoncehi lia hewa karata topanako. Hi eo toe mokero langi' hante moni to paguru, pai' butu nyala-na pumpu ridi' nakoni' apu, pai' dunia' toi hante hawe'ea ihi' -na mampu hangkaa-ngkania. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "transient": transiently, transients. (additional references) | |
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"Transient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fraissinet, tiansient, trancient, tranisent, transcent, transcient, transdent, transecnt, transens, transiant, transiet, transigent, transilent, translent, translient, Transnet, trasient, Trasimene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "transient" (pronounced tra"nzhunt) |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: instanter, intranets. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: entrains, entrants, intranet, intrants, intreats, nitrates, stannite, straiten, tertians. | |
-2 letters: anestri, antsier, artiest, artiste, attires, entrain, entrant, inanest, insaner, insnare, instant, instate, intents, interns, intrant, intreat, iratest, iterant, nastier, natters, nattier, nitrate, ratines, ratites, rattens, retains, retinas, retints, retsina, satinet, stainer, stanine, stearin, stinter, striate, tanners, tannest, tastier, tenants, tennist, tertian, tinners. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: astringent, entertains, itinerants, stentorian, tenantries, transients. | |
+2 letters: antinatures, astringents, intenerates, interplants, interstrain, interstrand, patternings, reinstating, straitening, transecting, transection, transfinite, transiently, trapnesting, unresistant, unrestraint. | |
+3 letters: alternations, antiestrogen, antineutrons, astringently, counterstain, determinants, detrainments, encrustation, entertainers, entrainments, fenestration, instrumental, integrations, interactants, interactions, interstation, interstrains, interstrands, intransigent, intransitive, itinerations, menstruating, menstruation, nonliterates, nonresistant, nonstrategic, orientations, penetrations, presentation, recantations, sternutation, strontianite, terminations, transections, transfecting, transfection, transpontine, trepanations, understating, unrestraints. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6E 73 69 65 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -. ... .. . -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a n s i e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006E 0073 0069 0065 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548467808575718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Abbreviations 20. Acronyms | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Orthography | 25. Bibliography |
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