Transfer vs. Transaction

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  • Transfer (verb)

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

    “to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion”

  • Transfer (verb)

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

    “to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone”

  • Transfer (verb)

    To be or become transferred.

  • Transfer (verb)

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

    “The title to land is transferred by deed.”

  • Transfer (noun)

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

  • Transfer (noun)

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

  • Transfer (noun)

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

  • Transfer (noun)

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

  • Transfer (noun)

    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.

  • Transfer (noun)

    The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

  • Transaction (noun)

    The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

  • Transaction (noun)

    A deal or business agreement.

  • Transaction (noun)

    An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.

  • Transaction (noun)

    The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.

  • Transaction (noun)

    An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).

  • Transaction (noun)

    A record of the proceedings of a learned society

Wiktionary
  • Transfer (verb)

    move from one place to another

    “he intends to transfer the fund’s assets to the Treasury”

    “I went to sleep on the couch before transferring to my bedroom later in the night”

  • Transfer (verb)

    move to another department, occupation, etc.

    “she transferred to the Physics Department”

    “employees have been transferred to the installation team”

  • Transfer (verb)

    (in football and other sports) move to another team

    “he was transferred to Arsenal for £750,000”

    “he transferred to the Brooklyn Dodgers”

  • Transfer (verb)

    redirect (a telephone call) to a new line or extension.

  • Transfer (verb)

    copy (a drawing or design) from one surface to another

    “drawings can be transferred to the artwork by rubbing them off the sheet”

  • Transfer (verb)

    copy (data, music, etc.) from one medium or device to another

    “the new product lets users transfer data from palmtop to desktop with a click of the mouse”

  • Transfer (verb)

    change to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey

    “passengers have to transfer at Heathrow for onward international flights”

  • Transfer (verb)

    make over the possession of (property, a right, or a responsibility) to another

    “we will transfer full planning responsibility to local authorities”

  • Transfer (verb)

    change (the sense of a word or phrase) by extension or metaphor

    “a transferred use of the Old English noun”

  • Transfer (noun)

    an act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.

    “a transfer of wealth to the EU’s poorer nations”

    “a patient had died after transfer from the County Hospital to St Peter’s”

    “she asked her boss for a transfer to the city”

  • Transfer (noun)

    a conveyance of property, especially stocks and shares, from one person to another

    “the transfer of assets from wealthy individuals to family members”

  • Transfer (noun)

    the action of copying data from one medium or device to another

    “data transfer between different manufacturers’ drives”

  • Transfer (noun)

    a small coloured picture or design on paper, which can be transferred to another surface by being pressed or heated

    “T-shirts with iron-on transfers”

  • Transfer (noun)

    an act of changing to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey

    “bus transfers between the airport and the city centre cost about £11”

  • Transfer (noun)

    a ticket allowing a passenger to change from one public transport vehicle to another as part of a single journey

    “you get a transfer, you have to get that train”

  • Transaction (noun)

    an instance of buying or selling something

    “in an ordinary commercial transaction a delivery date is essential”

  • Transaction (noun)

    the action of conducting business

    “the transaction of government business”

  • Transaction (noun)

    an exchange or interaction between people

    “intellectual transactions in the classroom”

  • Transaction (noun)

    published reports of proceedings at the meetings of a learned society.

  • Transaction (noun)

    an input message to a computer system dealt with as a single unit of work

    “transaction processing”

Oxford Dictionary

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