Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: transient
IPA transcription: [tɹ'ænʒənt]
Pronunciations of transient
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: transeunt, transient
    Meaning: of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
  • Synonyms: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious
    Meaning: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: transient
    Meaning: (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
  • Synonyms: transient
    Meaning: one who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers"
Usage examples
  • In these there was nothing artificial, nothing transient.
  • God, therefore, is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
  • He uses the transient shake in the third bar, instead of the appoggiatura which Klindworth prefers.
  • Such evils are doubtless great, but they are transient; whereas the benefits which attend them remain.
  • Of course, intellect, too, is transient and not eternal, but you know why I cherish a partiality for it.
  • "Aha, we'll have a good gallop after that brush to-morrow," said the Major, with a transient gleam of good humour.
  • I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge--but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
  • The sudden and undeserved promotion of a courtier produces only a transient impression in an aristocratic country, because the aggregate institutions and opinions of the nation habitually compel men to advance slowly in tracks which they cannot get out of.
  • The stuff of the world, so far as we have experience of it, consists, on the view that I am advocating, of innumerable transient particulars such as occur in seeing, hearing, etc., together with images more or less resembling these, of which I shall speak shortly.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Schizophrenia, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Titan (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording GRB 970508, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Alzheimer's disease, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Global Assessment of Functioning, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hubble Space Telescope, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Košice, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording BDSM, License CC BY-SA 4.0