Transfer vs Sequester - What's the difference?
transfer | sequester | Synonyms |
To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
To be or become transferred.
(legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
(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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(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.
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
* Hooker
To separate in order to store.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
* Francis Bacon
(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
(legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
* South
(transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
To seize and hold enemy property.
To withdraw; to retire.
* Milton
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
sequestration; separation
(legal) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
(medicine) A sequestrum.
(Webster 1913)
Transfer is a synonym of sequester.
As nouns the difference between transfer and sequester
is that transfer is transfer while sequester is sequestration; separation.As a verb sequester is
to separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.transfer
English
(wikipedia transfer)Verb
(transferr)- to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
- to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- 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 * transferorNoun
citation
Synonyms
* (act) transferal, transference * (instance) transferalUsage 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.sequester
English
Verb
(en verb)- The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
- when men most sequester themselves from action
- The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
- I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
- It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
- The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
- to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
Synonyms
* segregateNoun
(en noun)- (Bouvier)