intransitive vs transitive

intransitive

noun
  • An intransitive verb. 

adj
  • Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object. 

  • Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained. 

transitive

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

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. 

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