Transfer vs. Transport

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

Transportverb

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

Transportverb

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

Transportverb

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

Transportnoun

An act of transporting; conveyance.

Transportnoun

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

Transportnoun

A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)

Transportnoun

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

Transportnoun

The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

Transportnoun

A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.

Transportnoun

(historical) A deported convict.

Transportverb

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

Transportverb

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

Transportverb

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

Transportnoun

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

Transportnoun

A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; - called also transport ship, transport vessel.

Transportnoun

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

Transportnoun

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Transportnoun

something that serves as a means of transportation

Transportnoun

an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

Transportnoun

the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Transportnoun

a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

Transportnoun

a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

Transportverb

move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Transportverb

move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;

Transportverb

hold spellbound

Transportverb

transport commercially

Transportverb

send from one person or place to another;

Transportverb

take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship

Transportverb

send (a convict) to a penal colony

Transportverb

cause (someone) to feel that they are in another place or time

Transportverb

overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

Transportnoun

a system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place

Transportnoun

the action of transporting something or the state of being transported

Transportnoun

a large vehicle, ship, or aircraft used to carry troops or stores

Transportnoun

a convict who was transported to a penal colony.

Transportnoun

an overwhelmingly strong emotion

Transport

Transport (BE) or transportation (AE) is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. In other words, the action of transport is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A (a place in space) to a point B. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space.