Transfer vs Wire - 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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, 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.
(label) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
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, title= A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
(label) A finish line of a racetrack.
(label) A telecommunication wire or cable
(label) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
(label) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
(label) A deadline or critical endpoint.
(label) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
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To string on a wire.
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
(label) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.
To make someone tense or psyched up.
(label) To install eavesdropping equipment.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
As nouns the difference between transfer and wire
is that transfer is transfer while wire is (label) metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.As a verb wire is
to fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.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
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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.wire
English
Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (thin thread of metal ): cable, steel wire, thread * (metal conductor that carries electricity ): conducting wire * (fencing made of usually barbed wire ): barbed wire * (informal: telegraph''): ''See telegraph * (informal: message transmitted by telegraph''): ''See telegram * (object used to keep the score in billiards) score stringDerived terms
* baling wire * barbed wire, barbed-wire * be on the wire * by wire * chicken wire * down to the wire * earthing wire * get one’s wires crossed]], [[have one's wires crossed, have one’s wires crossed * guy wire/guy-wire * haywire * live wire * piano wire * pull wires * pull the wires * razor wire * trawlwire * trip wire * under the wire * wire broadcasting * wire clippers * wire cutter * wire entanglement * wireform * wireless * wire recorder * wire rope * wire transfer * wiretap * wire wool * woven wire * wirySee also
* filament * hawser * cableVerb
(wir)- I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.
- I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.