The difference between Copy and Transfer

When used as nouns, copy means the result of copying, whereas transfer means the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

When used as verbs, copy means to produce an object identical to a given object, whereas transfer means to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.


check bellow for the other definitions of Copy and Transfer

  1. Copy as a noun:

    The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.

    Examples:

    "Please bring me the copies of those reports."

  2. Copy as a noun:

    An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.

    Examples:

    "That handbag is a copy. You can tell because the buckle is different."

  3. Copy as a noun (journalism):

    The text that is to be typeset.

  4. Copy as a noun (journalism):

  5. Copy as a noun (marketing, advertising):

    The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.

  6. Copy as a noun (uncountable):

    The text of newspaper articles.

    Examples:

    "Submit all copy to the appropriate editor."

  7. Copy as a noun:

    A school work pad.

    Examples:

    "Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy."

  8. Copy as a noun:

    A printed edition of a book or magazine.

    Examples:

    "Have you seen the latest copy of "Newsweek" yet?"

    "The library has several copies of the Bible."

  9. Copy as a noun:

    Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.

  10. Copy as a noun (obsolete):

    That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.

    Examples:

    "His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation."

  11. Copy as a noun (obsolete):

    An abundance or plenty of anything.

  12. Copy as a noun (obsolete):

    copyhold; tenure; lease

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  13. Copy as a noun:

    (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.

  1. Copy as a verb (transitive):

    To produce an object identical to a given object.

    Examples:

    "Please copy these reports for me."

  2. Copy as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.

    Examples:

    "First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory."

  3. Copy as a verb (transitive):

    To imitate.

    Examples:

    "Don't copy my dance moves."

    "Mom, he's copying me!"

  4. Copy as a verb (radio):

    To receive a transmission successfully.

    Examples:

    "Do you copy?"

  1. Transfer as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion"

  2. Transfer as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone"

  3. Transfer as a verb (intransitive):

    To be or become transferred.

  4. Transfer as a verb (transitive, legal):

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

    Examples:

    "The title to land is transferred by deed."

  1. Transfer as a noun (uncountable):

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

  2. Transfer as a noun (countable):

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

  3. Transfer as a noun (countable):

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

  4. Transfer as a noun:

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

  5. Transfer as a noun (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.

  6. Transfer as a noun (genetics):

    The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.