figurative vs transitive

figurative

adj
  • Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative 

  • representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art. 

  • Metaphorically so called. 

  • Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig. 

  • With many figures of speech. 

transitive

adj
  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

How often have the words figurative and transitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )