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Transfer vs Jackpot - What's the difference?

transfer | jackpot |

As nouns the difference between transfer and jackpot

is that transfer is the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another while jackpot is a money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.

As a verb transfer

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

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.
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  • , 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.

    jackpot

    English

    Etymology 1

    Attested as + pot.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
  • * 2000 , Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Choices, values, and frames ,
  • If no player picks all six numbers correctly, the jackpot' is rolled over and added to the next week's '''jackpot'''; several weeks of rollovers can build up ' jackpots up to $350 million or more.
  • A large cash prize or money.
  • An unexpected windfall or reward.
  • Usage notes
    * By metonymy, jackpot is also the word for several types of poker which feature jackpots (prize pools which accumulate until won). ** 1920 , , **: ... they played red-dog and twenty-one and jackpot from dinner to dawn, and on the occasion of one man's birthday persuaded him to buy sufficient champagne for a hilarious celebration.
    Derived terms
    * hit the jackpot

    Etymology 2

    . Criminal slang usage as "trouble, especially an arrest" attested 1902.

    Noun

    (en noun)
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    Alternative forms

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    Noun

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