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Meaning of trans panic defense

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

trans

Pronunciation:/tɹænz/

verb

Definitions

  1. To cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or something in that vein).

adjective

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  1. 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.

  2. Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.

trans

Pronunciation:/tɹænz/

noun

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  1. (sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person.

adjective

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  1. Transgender (or sometimes transsexual).

    Example: trans rights are human rights

adjective

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  1. Non-cisgender; an umbrella term encompassing transgender, transsexual, and often also genderqueer/nonbinary, genderfluid, third-gender, etc — all gender identities other than cisgender.

trans

Pronunciation:/tɹænz/

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

    Example: The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.

  2. A deal or business agreement.

  3. An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.

    Example: I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.

  4. The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.

noun

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  1. The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.

  2. The fact of being transmitted.

  3. Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing.

  4. The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.