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siirtää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • alienate verb To make someone feel isolated, unwelcome, or estranged.
  • assign verb To give a specific task, role, or place to someone.
  • convey verb To communicate an idea, feeling, or message.
  • displace verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
  • migrate verb To move from one region or country to another, often seasonally or permanently.
  • move verb To change position or location.
  • port noun A town or harbour where ships load, unload, or shelter.
  • relegate verb Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
  • relocate verb To move to a new place, or to move something to a new place.
  • remit verb To send money, especially as a payment.
  • remove verb To take something away from its place.
  • reschedule verb To arrange for something to happen at a different time than originally planned.
  • shift verb To move something from one place or position to another.
  • throw verb To send an object through the air using force from your hand or arm.
  • toll noun A fee charged for using a road, bridge, or similar route.
  • traduce verb To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
  • transcribe verb To write out in full what is said in speech or on a recording.
  • transfer verb To move something from one place, person, or thing to another.
  • translate verb To change spoken or written words from one language into another.
  • transmit verb To send or pass something from one person, place, or thing to another.
  • transplant verb To dig up a plant and replant it somewhere else.
  • transport verb To carry people or goods from one place to another.

Senses

siirtää is used for these senses in English:

  • alienate To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
  • assign (transitive, legal) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
  • convey (legal) To transfer legal rights (to).
  • displace To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • hand off (idiomatic, transitive) To pass or transfer.
  • migrate (transitive, computing) To move computer code or files from one computer or network to another.
  • move (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
  • move about (ambitransitive) To move from place to place.

alienate — full definition

  1. verb To make someone feel isolated, unwelcome, or estranged.
  2. verb (law) To transfer ownership of property to someone else.

assign — full definition

  1. verb To give a specific task, role, or place to someone.
  2. verb To transfer property, a right, or a value to someone or something else.

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