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| Concept: | Transference. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
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-nouns
transfer, transference; translocation, elocation; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion, amotion; relegation; deportation, asportation; extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer (of property)., transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling; vection, vecture, vectitation; shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition (interchange); traction., [Thing transferred] drift.
-verbs
transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote [U.S.]., send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post., shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse.
-adjectives
transferred; drifted, movable; portable, portative; mailable [U.S.]; contagious.
-adverbs
from hand to hand, from pillar to post., on the way, by the way; on the road, on the wing; as one goes; in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid-progress.
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| Main Entry: | delegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust |
| Notes: | a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
| Antonyms: | keeping |
| Main Entry: | disposal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parting with or throwing something away |
| Synonyms: | auctioning, bartering, chucking, clearance, conveyance, demolishing, demolition, destroying, destruction, discarding, dispatching, dispensation, disposition, dumping, ejection, jettison, jettisoning, junking, relegation, relinquishment, removal, riddance, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, selling, trading, transfer, transference, vending |
| Antonyms: | hold, keeping, retention |
| Main Entry: | operation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement, working |
| Synonyms: | act, action, activity, affair, agency, application, ballgame, bit, carrying on, conveyance, course, deal, deed, doing, effect, effort, employment, engagement, enterprise, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, force, handiwork, happening, influence, instrumentality, labor, manipulation, motion, movement, performance, play, procedure, proceeding, process, progress, progression, scene, service, transaction, transference, trip, undertaking, use, work, workmanship |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inaction, inutility, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | passage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | travel |
| Synonyms: | advance, change, conversion, crossing, flow, journey, motion, movement, passing, progress, progression, tour, traject, transfer, transference, transit, transition, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, traverse, traversing, trek, trip, voyage |
| Notes: | a passage is a one-way boat crossing; a voyage is a round trip journey by sea |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inaction, wait |
| Main Entry: | shift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | switch, fluctuation |
| Synonyms: | about-face, alteration, bend, change, changeover, conversion, deflection, deviation, displacement, double, fault, modification, move, passage, permutation, rearrangement, removal, shifting, substitution, tack, transfer, transference, transformation, transit, translocation, turn, variation, veering, yaw |
| Antonyms: | deactivation, maintenance, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | transfer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change of possession |
| Synonyms: | alteration, assignment, conduction, convection, deportation, displacement, move, relegation, relocation, removal, shift, substitution, transference, translation, transmission, transmittal, transposition, variation |
| Antonyms: | hold, keeping |
| Main Entry: | transit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transportation |
| Synonyms: | alteration, carriage, carrying, conveyance, crossing, infiltration, motion, movement, osmosis, passage, penetration, permeation, portage, shift, shipment, transfer, transference, transport, transporting, travel, traverse |
| Main Entry: | transport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | move, transfer |
| Synonyms: | carriage, carrier, carrying, carting, conveyance, conveying, conveyor, freightage, hauling, lift, movement, mover, moving, passage, removal, shipment, shipping, transference, transferring, transit, transportation, transporting, transshipment, truckage, vehicle |
| Antonyms: | idle, remain, stay |
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