The difference between Shift and Transfer

When used as nouns, shift means a type of women's undergarment, a slip, whereas transfer means the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

When used as verbs, shift means to change, swap, whereas transfer means to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

check bellow for the other definitions of Shift and Transfer

  1. Shift as a noun (historical):

    A type of women's undergarment, a slip.

    Examples:

    "Just last week she bought a new shift at the market."

  2. Shift as a noun:

    A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.

    Examples:

    "We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done."

  3. Shift as a noun:

    An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.

    Examples:

    "There was a shift in the political atmosphere."

  4. Shift as a noun (US):

    The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.

    Examples:

    "Does it come with a stick-shift?"

  5. Shift as a noun:

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    Examples:

    "If you press shift-P, the preview display will change."

  6. Shift as a noun (computing):

    A bit shift.

  7. Shift as a noun (baseball):

    The infield shift.

    Examples:

    "Teams often use the shift against this lefty."

  8. Shift as a noun (Ireland, crude, _, slang, often with the definite article, usually, _, uncountable):

    The act of kissing passionately.

  9. Shift as a noun (archaic):

    A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.

  10. Shift as a noun (archaic):

    A trick, an artifice.

  11. Shift as a noun:

    In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

  12. Shift as a noun (mining):

    A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

  13. Shift as a noun (genetics):

    A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.

  1. Shift as a verb (transitive):

    To change, swap.

  2. Shift as a verb (transitive):

    To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

    Examples:

    "We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office."

  3. Shift as a verb (intransitive):

    To change position.

    Examples:

    "She shifted slightly in her seat."

    "His political stance shifted daily."

  4. Shift as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.

  5. Shift as a verb (intransitive):

    To change gears (in a car).

    Examples:

    "I crested the hill and shifted into fifth."

  6. Shift as a verb (typewriters):

    To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

  7. Shift as a verb (computer keyboards):

    To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

  8. Shift as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

    Examples:

    "'Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100."

  9. Shift as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To remove the first value from an array.

  10. Shift as a verb (transitive):

    To dispose of.

    Examples:

    "How can I shift a grass stain?"

  11. Shift as a verb (intransitive):

    To hurry.

    Examples:

    "If you shift, you might make the 2:19."

  12. Shift as a verb (Ireland, vulgar, slang):

    To engage in sexual petting.

  13. Shift as a verb (archaic):

    To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

  14. Shift as a verb:

    To practice indirect or evasive methods.

  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.

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