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Delivery vs Transfer - What's the difference?

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In medicine terms the difference between delivery and transfer

is that delivery is administration of a drug while transfer is a pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

As nouns the difference between delivery and transfer

is that delivery is the act of conveying something while transfer is the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

As a verb transfer is

to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

delivery

English

Noun

(deliveries)
  • The act of conveying something.
  • The delivery was completed by four.
    delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
  • The item which has been conveyed.
  • Your delivery is on the table.
  • The act of giving birth
  • The delivery was painful.
  • (baseball) A pitching motion.
  • ''His delivery has a catch in it.
  • (baseball) A thrown pitch.
  • ''Here is the delivery ; ... strike three!
  • The manner of speaking.
  • The actor's delivery was flawless.
  • * 1919 ,
  • I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman}}
  • (medicine) administration of a drug
  • Drug delivery system .
  • (cricket) A ball .
  • (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
  • Derived terms

    * delivery room * special delivery

    transfer

    Verb

    (transferr)
  • To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
  • to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
  • To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
  • to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
  • To be or become transferred.
  • (legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
  • The title to land is transferred by deed.

    Synonyms

    * carry over, move, onpass * (convey impression of from one surface to another) copy, transpose * (to be or become transferred)

    Derived terms

    * transferee * transferor

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine= citation
  • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer . A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
  • (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  • A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
  • Synonyms

    * (act) transferal, transference * (instance) transferal

    Usage notes

    * In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.