Tra từ transient - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ transient pleasures
▪ Phoenix has a very transient population.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Elevations of serum transaminase are usually transient and dose-related, but occasionally can indicate severe hepatotoxicity.
▪ Once the transient sleep problem has passed, stop taking the sleeping pills.
▪ The transient nature of speech does not permit editing of the speech signal.
▪ The cause is not transient but structural and deep-seated.
▪ The essentially transient regime left behind little but resentment and destruction.
▪ The grandchild's more numerous social connections are shallower, more transient and imbued with less moral content than the grandfather's.
▪ They list possible side effects as mild to moderate and transient.
▪ With further respiratory tract infections there remains a tendency to impaired hearing, but this is transient.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Empty houses attract drug users and transients.
▪ Farther along the street was a transient who was carrying his belongings in a plastic bag.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had been living as a transient in San Diego for several years before his arrest.
▪ In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient.
▪ On Wednesday, Brown apologized for his outbursts and vowed to get tough on park transients.
▪ The king decreed that anyone who attempted to feed or house the eighty-six-year-old transient would be punished for their efforts.

transient

I. tran‧si‧ent¹ /ˈtrænziənt $ ˈtrænʃənt/ adjective formal
[date : 1500-1600; Language : Latin; Origin : present participle of transire 'to go across', from ire 'to go']
1. continuing only for a short time:
　 ▪ transient fashions

2. working or staying somewhere for only a short time:
　 ▪ a transient population

—transience noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
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THESAURUS
▪temporary continuing for only a limited period of time :
　 ▪ I’ve got a temporary office job, but I hope I’ll find something more permanent soon.
　 ▪ I’m sure the problem is only temporary.
　 ▪ temporary staff
　 ▪ a temporary visa
▪provisional temporary – used especially about arrangements or information that people may decide to change in the future. Also used about licences or governments which are only arranged to last for a short time :
　 ▪ Does the hotel accept provisional bookings?
　 ▪ They have set a provisional date for the next meeting.
　 ▪ a provisional driving licence
　 ▪ In June, the rebels claimed to have formed a provisional government.
　 ▪ Provisional figures yesterday from the Department of Transport showed that 4,274 people were killed last year — 6 percent fewer than the previous year.
▪stopgap [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]temporary – used about something that you use for a short time until you can replace it with something better :
　 ▪ The Republicans will approve the one-month budget as a stopgap measure to keep the state operating.
　 ▪ This is only a stopgap solution to the country’s debt problem.
▪passing [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]temporary – used about an interest, thought, or feeling that is short and not very serious :
　 ▪ Tonight’s game will be exciting, even to those with only a passing interest in the sport.
　 ▪ As a student, I didn’t give working in finance even a passing thought.
▪ephemeral formal existing or popular for only a short time :
　 ▪ the ephemeral beauty of white snow on green trees and bare branches
　 ▪ Many new words, particularly slang, are fleeting and ephemeral.
▪transient formal continuing for only a limited time, or staying somewhere for only a short time – used especially to say that something is always changing, or people only stay somewhere for a short time :
　 ▪ the transient nature of life
　 ▪ transient changes in the electrical properties of the neurons
　 ▪ Arizona has a highly transient population.

II. transient² noun [COUNTABLE]
American English someone who has no home and moves around from place to place