Transfer vs. Relay

Transferverb

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

Transferverb

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

Transferverb

(intransitive) To be or become transferred.

Transferverb

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

(medicine) 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.

Transfernoun

(genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

Transferverb

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.

Transferverb

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.

Transferverb

To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

Transfernoun

The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

Transfernoun

The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

Transfernoun

That which is transferred.

Transfernoun

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.

Transfernoun

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.

Transfernoun

A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

the act of transporting something from one location to another

Transfernoun

someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another;

Transfernoun

the act of transfering something from one form to another;

Transfernoun

a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances

Transfernoun

application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation

Transfernoun

transferring ownership

Transferverb

move around;

Transferverb

transfer somebody to a different position or location of work

Transferverb

move from one place to another;

Transferverb

lift and reset in another soil or situation;

Transferverb

cause to change ownership;

Transferverb

change from one vehicle or transportation line to another;

Transferverb

send from one person or place to another;

Transferverb

shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes;

Transferverb

transfer from one place or period to another;

Transferverb

move from one place to another

Transferverb

move to another department, occupation, etc.

Transferverb

(in football and other sports) move to another team

Transferverb

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

Transferverb

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

Transferverb

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

Transferverb

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

Transferverb

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

Transferverb

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

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

Transfernoun

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

Relaynoun

A new set of hounds.

Relaynoun

A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.

Relaynoun

(by extension) A new set of anything.

Relaynoun

A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.

Relaynoun

(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.

Relaynoun

(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.

Relayverb

To release a new set of hounds.

Relayverb

To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another.

Relayverb

To take on a new relay of horses; to change horses.

Relayverb

(transitive) To pass on or transfer (information).

Relayverb

alternative spelling of re-lay

Relayverb

To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

Relaynoun

A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.

Relaynoun

In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.

Relayadjective

Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an auxiliary apparatus put into action by a feeble force but itself capable of exerting greater force, used to control a comparatively powerful machine or appliance.

Relaynoun

the act of relaying something

Relaynoun

electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit

Relayverb

pass along;

Relayverb

control or operate by relay

Relay

A relay is an electrically operated switch. It consists of a set of input terminals for a single or multiple control signals, and a set of operating contact terminals.