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How to pronounce transit in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms transportation, transportation system
Type of facility, installation
Has types telpherage, highway system, air transportation system, public transit, short line, telferage
Type Words
Synonyms move through, pass across, pass over, pass through
Type of pass
Has types cut
Derivation transition
Type Words
Synonyms passage
Type of journey, journeying
Has types lockage
Type Words
Synonyms theodolite
Type of surveyor's instrument, surveying instrument
Has types tacheometer, tachymeter
Type Words
Type of bring, convey, take
Verb group pass over, move through, pass across, pass through


The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day.
Type Words
Type of pass


The comet will transit on September 11.
Type Words
Type of revolve, roll

Examples of transit

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Transit systems become much more useful when they facilitate multi-modal travel.
From the washingtonpost.com
Next, the transit agency will begin a nationwide search for a permanent manager.
From the washingtonpost.com
Such workers seek urban areas with vital, dense downtowns and good mass transit.
From the freep.com
Ships then transit the park, directly through the whale's main foraging grounds.
From the sciencedaily.com
The last planned shutdown of the entire transit system was during a 2005 strike.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Why do I have to go through Immigration and why can't I just transit at Bangkok?
From the nzherald.co.nz
It may be Christie knows more about transit planning than he's given credit for.
From the economist.com
County officials must now decide on a way to fund the road and transit projects.
From the washingtonpost.com
Accumulating 100 hours of transit observations would take less than three years.
From the sciencedaily.com
More examples
  • Theodolite: a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
  • Make a passage or journey from one place to another; "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;" "Some travelers pass through the desert"
  • Pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place); "The comet will transit on September 11"
  • Transportation system: a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
  • Revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
  • Passage: a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days"
  • TransIT is a public transportation agency in Frederick County, Maryland that is operated by the county government. ...
  • Transit is a science fiction novel written by Edmund Cooper and published in February 1964 by Faber and Faber.
  • Transit is a 1979 Israeli drama film directed by Daniel Wachsmann. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.