transes

1. 1
   nouncolloquial

   Plural of trans.

   The shop specializes in rebuilding automatic transes for older pickups.

   Both transes failed within a year, so the fleet manager switched suppliers.

   Note

   In garage talk the clipping is short for transmissions, as in a shop that rebuilds transes; elsewhere it can stand for transactions. Said of people, as a plural noun for transgender people, it is humorous at best and often offensive, so trans people, with trans describing rather than naming them, is the respectful choice.

2. 2
   nounobsolete

   Plural of transe (obsolete spelling of trances).

   Note

   An old spelling of trances, from a time when trance could also be written transe. A reader meets it only in older texts, and anyone writing today should use trances. Do not confuse it with the clipped plural of trans: the letters are the same, but the word is not.

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