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Transfer is a synonym of estrange.


As a noun transfer

is transfer.

As a verb estrange is

to cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate to cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).

transfer

English

(wikipedia 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.

    Related terms

    * hip transfer * spine transfer * transferable, transferrable * transferal, transferral * transferase * transferee * transference * transferent * transferential * transferer * transferrin * transferring * transfer list * transfer market * transfer window English ergative verbs English heteronyms ----

    estrange

    English

    Verb

    (estrang)
  • To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
  • To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

    • Usage notes

    Largely synonymous with alienate, estrange'' is primarily used to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting, while ''alienate'' is rather used to refer to driving off (“he ''alienated'' her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks ''alienated the urban demographic”). When speaking of parents being estranged from a child of theirs, disown is frequently used instead, and has a stronger connotation.

    Synonyms

    * (cause to feel less close) alienate, antagonize, disaffect, isolate * (remove from an accustomed context) wean

    Derived terms

    * estrangement * estranger

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    Anagrams

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