What's the difference between remittance and transfer?

Remittance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.
  • (n.) The sum or thing remitted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Complete remissions were relatively short, and 11 of 14 remitters relapsed after 2 to 11 months (median 4 months).
  • (2) In the postoperative period, he was complicated by remittent fever of 1 month's duration, which was finally controlled by antibiotics.
  • (3) With global remittances tripling over the past decade and now outstripping official aid, diaspora groups and international NGOs urgently need to find ways of working together more effectively.
  • (4) High levels of IC in CSF were detected only in the subgroup consisting of the relapsing-remittent patients in disease exacerbation when IC were determined by the C1q-binding test.
  • (5) More meetings between government officials, banks, remittance companies and NGOs are planned over the coming weeks.
  • (6) Hormone therapy is indicated in acute forms of disseminated sclerosis and in a remittent development in the stage of exacerbation in the II and III phases.
  • (7) As the locus of many migrants' investments, the village of Los Pinos has experienced a modest growth in the number of full-time jobs paying somewhat above the minimum urban wage and in a variety of petty entrepreneurial activities depending heavily on the patronage of migrant households, themselves heavily subsidized by remittances.
  • (8) Their history was not suggestive of a cyclic or remittent pattern of symptoms.
  • (9) Nearly a third had a remittent (32.8%) or relapsing cumulative (34%) course and 9% had a progressive course from the start.
  • (10) Remittances by African migrants provide many benefits to African households and governments.
  • (11) So we also need to be thinking internationally.” He said that included marshalling “everything the private sector has to give”, including overseas remittances by migrant workers, which the World Bank estimates reached $436bn in 2014 , and supporting plans by the Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to launch a development bank to finance infrastructure projects.
  • (12) One patient had suffered from severe postpartal hyperbilirubinemia, the other one presented with chronic hemolysis and remittent hyperbilirubinemia.
  • (13) As gold compounds are effective in treating spontaneous RA in dogs, these proposed actions may not be responsible for the remittive effects of chrysotherapy in this disease.
  • (14) These unchanging features were not found among the remitters.
  • (15) High rates of diffuse remittance were found for classical laser wavelengths such as the argon or the Nd:YAG II laser indicating only low rates of absorption.
  • (16) The government said it was committed to supporting a healthy and legitimate remittance sector while also ensuring a robust anti-money laundering regime.
  • (17) A drying up of remittance money to Somalia is the last thing the British government needs as it has invested much political effort in putting the country back on its feet.
  • (18) The opposition had warned, with each stage of the “normalization” – the release on both sides of political prisoners; a deal to allow telecom companies to strengthen the internet on the island and for US banks to do business there; a US agreement to expand remittances and ease travel restrictions – that too many opponents of the Castro regime remain in prisons, or remain sentenced to silence under threat of retribution.
  • (19) Remittance by mail of blood samples and subsequent time of permanency in mail boxes are not supposed to be best thermic conditions for dried blood samples in paper used for neonatal screening.
  • (20) Patients with TdT-positive AML had similar median survival (12 versus 10.5 months) and complete remission (CR) rates (53 versus 59%), but a greater frequency of long-term complete responders (60 of complete remitters versus 20%, p = 0.08) than TdT-negative patients.

Transfer


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.
  • (v. t.) To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.
  • (v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.
  • (n.) The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
  • (n.) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
  • (n.) That which is transferred.
  • (n.) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.
  • (n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
  • (n.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • (n.) A pathological process by virtue of 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (3) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
  • (4) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
  • (5) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
  • (6) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
  • (7) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (8) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (9) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
  • (10) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
  • (11) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
  • (12) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
  • (13) Ferrocene derivatives, in general, show a degree of versatility, coupling the electron-transfer reactions of many enzymes.
  • (14) They are capable of synthesis and accumulation of glycogen and responsible for its transfer to sites of more intense metabolism (growth, bud, blastema).
  • (15) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
  • (16) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (17) Hydrogen isotope effects on these mutants indicate that MotA catalyzes proton transfer.
  • (18) Cloned genes encoding pertussis toxin from B. pertussis were transferred into Bordetella bronchiseptica and Bordetella parapertussis by conjugation.
  • (19) Median time for ventilatory support was 90 minutes after transfer to the area.
  • (20) 3H-TBOB is then transferred into liver, the primary organ of its metabolic detoxication.