Tim,
Even though you intimated that Asheville has become a suburb of Charlotte
, it's good to see one of your postings. Missed you boy!
I can see where the words can be interchangable; but many other situations where they would not be.
I would never use transitory for a crown or filling; only temporary. In the area of employment; if I took a job for a short time, I would call it a temporary job. Conversely, I am currently in a transitory position at work.
(I was
running a desk in executive search for a bit more than a year; but the company felt that I was not making sufficient headway. I was given a brief sabbatical, and then aksed to be the chief of staff for one of the Veeps who will be running a nonprofit that our company established. We are poised to commence acting on our new brief; but for the last 2 months I have had transitory duties as a recruiter for this VP, who is still running a desk.)
Many types of pain and neurological symptoms aere better described as transitory than as temporary. Sometimes these symptoms not only come and go, but also travel along an axis.