Transfer vs Waive - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
(obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
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(legal) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
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To put aside, avoid.
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(obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
(obsolete) To stray, wander.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Merchant's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
(obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
(obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
* 1624 , (John Donne), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions :
As nouns the difference between transfer and waive
is that transfer is transfer while waive is (obsolete|legal) a woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman or waive can be .As a verb waive is
(obsolete) to outlaw (someone) or waive can be (obsolete) to move from side to side; to sway.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.waive
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .Verb
(waiv)- If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
Derived terms
* waivableEtymology 2
(etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .Verb
(waiv)- ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) waive, probably as the past participle of (weyver), as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- (John Donne)
Etymology 4
Variant forms.Noun
(en noun)- I know, O Lord, the ordinary discomfort that accompanies that phrase, that the house is visited, and that thy works, and thy tokens are upon the patient; but what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?