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Transit   /trˈænzɪt/   Listen
Transit

noun
1.
A surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod.  Synonym: theodolite.
2.
A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods.  Synonyms: transportation, transportation system.
3.
A journey usually by ship.  Synonym: passage.
verb
1.
Make a passage or journey from one place to another.  Synonyms: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through.  "Some travelers pass through the desert"
2.
Pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place).
3.
Revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction.
4.
Cause or enable to pass through.



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"Transit" Quotes from Famous Books



... place, and even while in transit, men organized for the purpose of self-protection, and in this necessary act law-abiding and criminal elements united. After arriving at the scenes of the gold fields, such organization was forgotten; ...
— The Story of the Outlaw - A Study of the Western Desperado • Emerson Hough
... headache, brought on by the heat of the sun in the launch. She declares that she cannot move; but our experienced escort, who much fears bilious fever for her, is resolved that she shall as soon as any means of transit can be procured. Heretofore, I have always traveled "without encumbrance." Is it treasonable to feel at this moment that these fair ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
... door bearing the sign, "Henry H. Rogers, President of the National Transit Co.," on the eleventh floor, and pass from the outer office into the beautiful, spacious mahogany apartment beyond, with its decorations of bronze bulls and bears and yacht-models, its walls covered with neatly framed autograph letters from Lincoln, ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... scrawled a short letter in a crabbed hand, in which he insisted on the right of transit free of search, and denounced vengeance on any custom-house officer who should lay his unhallowed hand on any convoy protected by ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... that doesn't alter the fact that the average cow is none too clean, the average milker's hands and clothes (to say nothing of his face, hat and head) none too clean, the milking-place none too clean, and the circumstances of transit such as don't make for cleanliness. I have put it very moderately, as those who know country dairy farms will admit. Those who particularly want clean cheese from uncooked milk should buy it from a County Council dairy farm ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various


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