Transits can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| transit - make a passage or journey from one place to another; "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;" "Some travelers pass through the desert" | ||
| transit - cause or enable to pass through; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day" | ||
| transit - revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction | ||
| transit - pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place); "The comet will transit on September 11" | ||
Noun |
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| transit - The act of passing over, across, or through something. | ||
| transit - The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance. | ||
| transit - The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body. | ||
| transit - A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles. | ||
| transit - An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, then navigator knows that his position is on the transit. | ||
| transit - A Ford Transit van. | ||
| transit - To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge. |
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| 1. | noun | Transits occur when a planet passes in front of its host star from our perspective, briefly and regularly dimming its light. | |
| 2. | noun | The Andaman Sea is a major conduit for this traffic, and the 572 large and small islands that constitute the Andaman and Nicobar group are a natural transit base. | |
| 3. | noun | The electrical appliance must have been damaged in transit. | |
| 4. | noun | My baggage was lost in transit. | |
| 5. | noun | I'm in transit between flights now. I've spent 8 hours on a plane so far, after changing planes now it's another two hours. | |
| 6. | noun | I listen to the radio while in transit. | |
| 7. | noun | The engineer put his eye to the transit and looked through it. | |
| 8. | noun | I'm in transit. | |
| 9. | noun | I am here in transit. | |
| 10. | noun | She died in a transit accident. | |
| 11. | noun | All transit passangers should proceed to the "Departures Hall". | |
| 12. | noun | The transit passenger expressed anxiety about the delay of the arrival of the bus. | |
| 13. | noun | Conditions apply for Los Angeles transit passengers. | |
| 14. | noun | I tried to stare blankly out the window as the other transit passengers looked around in disbelief. | |
| 15. | noun | The rapid transit system is modern and efficient. | |
| 16. | verb | The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day. | |
| 17. | verb | The comet will transit on September 11. |
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| noun | |
| Transits occur when a planet passes in front of its host star from our perspective, briefly and regularly dimming its light. | |
| The Andaman Sea is a major conduit for this traffic, and the 572 large and small islands that constitute the Andaman and Nicobar group are a natural transit base. |
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| The electrical appliance must have been damaged in transit. | |
| My baggage was lost in transit. | |
| I'm in transit between flights now. I've spent 8 hours on a plane so far, after changing planes now it's another two hours. | |
| I listen to the radio while in transit. | |
| The engineer put his eye to the transit and looked through it. | |
| I'm in transit. | |
| I am here in transit. | |
| She died in a transit accident. | |
| All transit passangers should proceed to the "Departures Hall". | |
| The transit passenger expressed anxiety about the delay of the arrival of the bus. | |
| Conditions apply for Los Angeles transit passengers. | |
| I tried to stare blankly out the window as the other transit passengers looked around in disbelief. | |
| The rapid transit system is modern and efficient. | |
| verb | |
| The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day. |
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| The comet will transit on September 11. |
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