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Vinony

transit

noun

  1. act of passing over, across, or through
  2. conveyance of people or goods from one place to another
  3. travel
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verb

  1. go across/through
  2. pass over
  3. travel
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæn.zɪt/ / /ˈtɹæn.sɪt/ / /ˈtɹæn.zət/

noun

  1. A Ford Transit van.

verb

Etymology: From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

  1. To pass over, across or through something.
  2. To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
  3. To use public transit.

    “I always transit to work.”

  4. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
  5. To make a transit.
  6. 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.