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Lug vs Transfer - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between lug and transfer

is that lug is to run at too slow a speed while transfer is to convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

As a proper noun Lug

is an alternative spelling of Lugh|lang=en.

As an initialism LUG

is Linux user group.

lug

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of hauling or dragging.
  • a hard lug
  • That which is hauled or dragged.
  • The pack is a heavy lug .
  • Anything that moves slowly.
  • (Ascham)
  • A lug nut.
  • (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
  • A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
  • A fool, a large man.
  • (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
  • A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
  • (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
  • They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
  • (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
  • (Wright)
  • (UK, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16½ feet.
  • * Spenser
  • Eight lugs of ground.
  • (nautical) A lugsail.
  • (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
  • A lugworm.
  • Derived terms

    * (lug nut) lug nut * (large man) big lug * (protruding support) launch lug

    Verb

  • To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry.
  • Why do you always lug around so many books?
  • * Collier
  • They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
  • To run at too slow a speed.
  • When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.
  • (nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
  • Derived terms

    * luggage

    References

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    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.