Transplant vs Transmute - What's the difference?
transplant | transmute |
To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
(medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
An act of uprooting and moving (something).
Anything that is transplanted.
(medicine) An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted.
(medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue.
(US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
* 2012 , Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 29 Oct 2012:
To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.
In transitive terms the difference between transplant and transmute
is that transplant is to remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate while transmute is to change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.As a noun transplant
is an act of uprooting and moving (something).transplant
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(transplanting) (en verb)Noun
(en noun)- The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.
transmute
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(transmut)- The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.
- Did the base metals transmute to gold?