different between transfer vs portion

English

Etymology

From Latin tr?nsfer? (“I bear across”).

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???ns?f??/, /t?ænz?f??/
  • (US) enPR: tr?nsfûr?, IPA^(key): /t?æns?f?/, /?t?ænsf?/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???nsf??/, /?t?ænzf??/
  • (US) enPR: 'tr?nsfûr, IPA^(key): /?t?ænsf?/

Verb

transfer (third-person singular simple present transfers, present participle transferring, simple past and past participle transferred)

1. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

   to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion

2. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

   to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone

3. (transport) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

4. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
5. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

   The title to land is transferred by deed.

Synonyms

• (move or pass from one place/person/thing to another): carry over, move, onpass
• (convey impression of from one surface to another): copy, transpose
• (to be or become transferred):

Derived terms

• transferee
• transferor

Translations

Noun

transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)

1. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
2. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
3. (transport) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

4. (countable) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus, allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
5. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
6. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
7. (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.
8. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
9. (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
10. (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.

Usage 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.

Synonyms

• (act): transferal, transference
• (instance): transferal
• (college sports): transfer student

Related terms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

transfer m or n (plural transfers, diminutive transfertje n)

1. transfer

Synonyms

• overdracht

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Noun

transfer m (invariable)

1. transport
2. transfer (tourist, e.g. airport to hotel)

Latin

Verb

tr?nsfer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tr?nsfer?

Romanian

Etymology

From French transfert.

Noun

transfer n (plural transferuri)

1. transfer

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?nsfe?r/
• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

trànsf?r m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. transfer
2. transport

Declension

Spanish

Noun

transfer m (plural transferes)

1. transfer (between transport)

Turkish

Etymology

From French transfert

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

transfer (definite accusative transferi, plural transferler)

1. transfer

Declension

References

• transfer in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

English

Etymology

From Middle English porcioun, borrowed from Old French porcion, from Latin portio (“a share, part, portion, relation, proportion”), akin to pars (“part”); see part. Compare proportion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p????n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p????n/
• (Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po????n/, /?po????n/, /?po???n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

portion (plural portions)

1. An allocated amount.
2. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
3. One's fate; lot.
   • Man's portion is to die and rise again.

4. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
5. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
   • 1613, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, V. iv. 31:

     Commend me to her, and to piece her portion / Tender her this.

Usage notes

Relatively formal, compared to the more informal part or more concrete and casual piece. For example, “part of the money” (both informal) but “portion of the proceeds” (both formal).

Synonyms

• part
• piece

Derived terms

• portionless
• proportion
• underportion

Translations

Verb

portion (third-person singular simple present portions, present participle portioning, simple past and past participle portioned)

1. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
2. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
   • 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst

     Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest.

Translations

Usage notes

• Particularly used as portion out.
• Relatively formal, compared to the more informal divide, divide up, or the casual divvy, divvy up.

Synonyms

• apportion
• divide, divide up
• divvy, divvy up

Derived terms

• portion off
• portion out

Further reading

• portion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• portion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portionem (accusative singular of portio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.sj??/

Noun

portion f (plural portions)

1. portion

Descendants

• ? Turkish: porsiyon

Further reading

• “portion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• potiron

Interlingua

Noun

portion (plural portiones)

1. portion

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

portion c

1. serving, an helping of food

Declension

Related terms

• portionera