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transitive Logic Maths having the property that if one object bears a relationship to a second object that also bears the same relationship to a third object, then the first object bears this relationship to the third object
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| Hone, as a transitive verb, means "to sharpen"--as in "He honed his knife on a whetsone. The last place line had functioned as a transitive verb was in the work of Newman, who died in 1970. How else can we explain--much less teach the grammatical beauty in--a seemingly everyday sentence containing a transitive verb with a transitive gerund phrase as its object: "I love hitting the ball. |
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