N. transience,
transientness,
evanescence,
impermanence,
fugacity,
caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder,
bubble, mayfly,
spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement,
interregnum, velocity, suddenness,
changeableness,
transient, transient boarder, transient guest
V. be transient,
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
Adj. transient,
transitory, transitive, passing,
evanescent, fleeting,
cursory,
short-lived,
ephemeral, flying,
fugacious,
fugitive,
shifting,
slippery,
spasmodic,
instantaneous,
momentaneous, temporal, temporary,
provisional,
provisory,
deciduous, perishable,
mortal,
precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick,
brisk,
extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden,
momentary Adv. temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time,
awhile, en passant,
in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip
Phr. one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu, fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour, [Byron], dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion
N. conversion, reduction,
transmutation, resolution,
assimilation, evolution, sea change, change of state, assumption,
naturalization,
transportation, development, developing, conversion of currency, exchange of currency, exchange rate, bureau de change, chemistry,
alchemy, progress, growth,
lapse,
flux, passage, transit, transition,
transmigration,
shifting, phase,
conjugation,
convertibility,
crucible,
alembic,
caldron,
retort, convert,
pervert,
renegade,
apostate V. be converted into, become, get, wax, come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into, turn out,
lapse,
shift, run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as,
melt, grow, come round to,
mature,
mellow, assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of, illapse|, begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change, convert into, resolve into, make, render,
mold, form, remodel, new model, refound, reform,
reorganize, assimilate to, bring to, reduce to
Adv. gradually, in transitu
N. travel, traveling,
wayfaring, campaigning, journey,
excursion, expedition, tour,
trip, grand tour, circuit,
peregrination, discursion|,
ramble,
pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course,
ambulation, march, walk,
promenade, constitutional,
stroll,
saunter,
tramp, jog trot, turn,
stalk,
perambulation,
noctambulation,
noctambulism,
somnambulism, outing,
ride, drive, airing,
jaunt,
equitation,
horsemanship, riding,
manege, ride and tie, basophobia,
roving,
vagrancy, pererration|, marching and countermarching,
nomadism,
vagabondism,
vagabondage, hoboism,
gadding,
flit,
flitting,
migration,
emigration,
immigration, demigration|,
intermigration, wanderlust, plan,
itinerary, guide,
handbook,
guidebook, road book, baedeker,
bradshaw,
murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map,
procession,
cavalcade,
caravan,
file,
cortege, column,
vehicle, automobile, train,
bus, airplane, plane, autobus,
omnibus,
subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter,
trolley,
locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler,
depot, railway station, station
V. travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air,
flit, take wing,
migrate,
emigrate, trek,
rove,
prowl,
roam, range,
patrol, pace up and down,
traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate|,
circumambulate,
perambulate,
nomadize,
wander,
ramble,
stroll,
saunter,
hover, go one's rounds,
straggle,
gad, gad about,
expatiate, walk, march, step,
tread,
pace,
plod,
wend, go by shank's mare,
promenade,
trudge,
tramp,
stalk,
stride,
straddle,
strut, foot it, hoof it,
stump,
bundle, bowl along,
toddle,
paddle, tread a path, take horse,
ride, drive,
trot,
amble,
canter,
prance,
fisk,
frisk, caracoler,
caracole,
gallop,
embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide,
glide, coast,
skim,
skate, march in procession, file on,
defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to
Adj. traveling,
ambulatory,
itinerant,
peripatetic,
roving,
rambling,
gadding,
discursive,
vagrant,
migratory,
monadic,
circumforanean,
circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant,
locomotive,
wayfaring,
wayworn, travel-stained
Adv. on foot, on horseback, on shanks's mare, by the marrowbone stage,
in transitu,
en route Int. come along
N. transfer,
transference,
translocation, elocation|, displacement,
metastasis,
metathesis, removal, remotion,
amotion,
relegation,
deportation,
asportation,
extradition,
conveyance,
draft, carrying, carriage,
convection,
conduction,
contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage,
ferry,
gestation,
portage,
porterage,
carting,
cartage,
shoveling, vection|, vecture|, vectitation|, shipment,
freight,
wafture,
transmission, transport,
transportation,
importation,
exportation,
transumption,
transplantation, translation,
shifting,
dodging,
dispersion,
transposition, traction, drift
V. transfer,
transmit, transport,
transplace,
transplant, translocate, convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry, carry over, ferry over, hand pass, forward,
shift, conduct,
convoy, bring,
fetch, reach,
tote, port, import, export, send,
delegate,
consign,
relegate, turn over to, deliver, ship,
embark,
waft,
shunt,
transpose, displace, throw,
drag,
mail, post,
shovel,
ladle,
decant, draft off,
transfuse,
infuse,
siphon Adv. from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes,
in transitu,
en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course
N. progress,
progression,
progressiveness, advancing, advance, advancement,
ongoing, flood, tide,
headway, march, rise, improvement
V. advance, proceed, progress, get on, get along, get over the ground, gain ground, forge ahead, jog on, rub on, wag on, go with the stream, keep one's course, hold on one's course, go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead, make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way, make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides, go ahead, shoot ahead, distance, make up leeway
Adj. advancing, progressive,
profluent, advanced
Adv. forward,
onward, forth, on,
ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to, in progress, in mid progress,
in transitu Phr. vestigia nulla retrorsum, "westward the course of empire takes its way"
N. method, way, manner, wise,
gait, form, mode, fashion, tone,
guise, modus operandi, mo, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road,
trajectory, orbit,
track, beat,
tack, steps,
stair,
staircase, flight of stairs,
ladder,
stile, perron, bridge,
footbridge,
viaduct,
pontoon, steppingstone,
plank,
gangway,
drawbridge, pass,
ford,
ferry,
tunnel, pipe, door,
gateway, channel, passage,
avenue, means of access, approach,
adit,
artery,
lane,
alley,
aisle,
lobby,
corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel,
roadway,
pathway,
stairway, express,
thoroughfare,
highway,
turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, king's highway, queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk,
trottoir,
footpath,
pavement, flags,
sidewalk,
crossroad,
byroad,
bypath,
byway, cut, short cut, carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways,
railroad, railway, tram road,
tramway,
towpath,
causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another,
anyhow, somehow or other, by way of,
via,
in transitu, on the high road to
Phr. hae tibi erunt artes