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Übertragung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • assignment noun A task given to someone, especially a piece of schoolwork or a work project.
  • broadcast verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
  • broadcasting noun The industry or activity of producing and transmitting radio and television programs.
  • conveyance noun The act of transporting or carrying something.
  • transfer verb To move something from one place, person, or thing to another.
  • transference noun The act of moving something from one place, person, or situation to another.
  • transmission noun The act of sending or passing something on, such as data, a signal, or a disease.

Senses

Übertragung is used for these senses in English:

  • assignment The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
  • broadcast A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
  • broadcasting (business) The business or profession of radio and television.
  • conveyance An act or instance of conveying.
  • transfer (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • transference (psychology, psychiatry) The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.
  • transmission The fact of being transmitted.

assignment — full definition

  1. noun A task given to someone, especially a piece of schoolwork or a work project.
  2. noun The legal transfer of a right, property, or benefit from one person to another.

broadcast — full definition

  1. verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
  2. noun A radio or television program transmitted to the public.

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