hand vs transfer

hand

verb
  • To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively. 

  • To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct. 

  • To pledge by the hand; to handfast. 

  • To furl. 

noun
  • A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers. 

  • Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity. 

  • Management, domain, control. 

  • Applause. 

  • A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together. 

  • The set of cards held by a player. 

  • That which has the appearance of, a human hand. 

  • Four inches, a hand's breadth. 

  • A whole rhizome of ginger. 

  • Handwriting; style of penmanship. 

  • An instance of helping. 

  • A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey. 

  • A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left. 

  • Personal possession; ownership. 

  • The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim. 

  • Promise, word; especially of a betrothal. 

  • The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals. 

  • An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day. 

  • An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty. 

  • The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch. 

  • A round of a card game. 

  • A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand. 

  • A bunch of bananas. 

  • A person's autograph or signature. 

  • A performer more or less skilful. 

transfer

verb
  • To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another. 

  • To be or become transferred. 

  • To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else. 

  • To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey. 

  • To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another. 

noun
  • A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another. 

  • The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another. 

  • A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer. 

  • An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal. 

  • A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another. 

  • 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. 

  • An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey. 

  • A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey. 

  • The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another. 

  • A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit. 

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