intransitive

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An intransitive verb.
    — This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).
形容词 adj.
  1. Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object. not-comparable
    — The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."
  2. Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained. not-comparable,rare
    — 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further.
  3. Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game. not-comparable

词形变化

intransitives plural

词汇关系

近义词
neuter nontransitive
反义词
transitive
衍生词
intransitively intransitiveness intransitive preposition intransitive verb intransitivity intransitivization intransitivize
相关词
ergative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English transitive
English intransitive
From in- + transitive.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English transitive
English intransitive
From in- + transitive.
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