different between transferred vs displacement

English

Alternative forms

• transfered (proscribed)

Etymology

Formed as transfer +? -ed, with the r doubled to preclude a pronunciation ending in –fîrd?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tränsfûrd?, tr?nsfûrd?, tr?nzfûrd?; IPA^(key): /t???ns?f??d/, /t?æns?f??d/, /t?ænz?f??d/

Verb

transferred

1. simple past tense and past participle of transfer

Derived terms

• transferred epithet
• transferred sense

English

Etymology

From French déplacement.

Morphologically displace +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?sm?nt/, /d?z?ple?sm?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?sm?nt

Noun

displacement (plural displacements)

1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
   • 1793, Alexander Hamilton, Loans […]

     Unnecessary displacement of funds.

   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     The displacement of the sun by parallax.

2. The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
3. (chemistry) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
4. (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
5. (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
6. (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).

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See also

• Displacement (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia