trans
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /tɹænz/
trans (not comparable)
- (chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
- the trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands
- (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.
trans (transes, present participle transing; past and past participle transed)
- (rare, transitive, social sciences) To cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or something in that vein).
- 2012, Trystan Cotten, Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition (ISBN 113666744X):
- […] as they interact with bodies transing gender (and other) borders and spaces.
- 2012, Finn Enke, Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (ISBN 143990748X), pages 4 and 20:
- Although they did so in sometimes very different ways and in different communities, transsexuals, drag queens, butch lesbians, cross-dressers, feminine men, and masculine women all in some senses crossed, or transed, gender[.] […] People who trans gender as well as people who do not may receive cis-privileges, and people who do not intentionally trans gender as well as people who do are denied cis-privileges if they fail to pass (or pass enough) in the sex/gender they are expected to be.
- 2012, Trystan Cotten, Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition (ISBN 113666744X):
trans (not comparable)
- Transgender (or sometimes transsexual).
- trans rights are human rights
- 2018, Shon Faye, The Guardian, 30 May ↗:
- Last week, a study released in Belgium suggested that trans people’s brains – including those of trans children – more closely matched those belonging to other members of the gender they identified with than with members of the gender associated with their sex at birth.
- Alternative form of trans*
- French: trans
trans (plural transes)
- (informal, sometimes, offensive, sometimes, jocular) A trans person.
- 2001 November 23, "D a#344", TS out and proud compensation for passabilty?, alt.support.srs, Usenet:
- Good thing about Thanksgiving with the transes is you don;t need to explain your need to dialate in the middle of a movie. ; ) Dana a#344.
- 2001 November 23, "D a#344", TS out and proud compensation for passabilty?, alt.support.srs, Usenet:
trans
- Clipping of transaction#English|transaction.
- Clipping of transmission#English|transmission.
- 1998 May 14, Gary S. Callison, Trans change (was: Something I just deleted and forgot), alt.fan.cecil-adams, Usenet:
- Most of the transes I've seen die started out by losing a gear, usually the high one. If this happens to you, first check the trans fluid level, *then* panic.
- 2005 September 13, Richard, Re: Valvoline Transmission Fluid ATF+3 Chrysler Approved?, rec.autos.makers.chrysler, Usenet, quoting another user:
- If there really had been a difference and the transes were so forgiving as to be able to tolerate it, then cheaper alternatives like Lubeguard and […]
- 1998 May 14, Gary S. Callison, Trans change (was: Something I just deleted and forgot), alt.fan.cecil-adams, Usenet:
- plural form of tran
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