The difference between Transfer and Transferal

When used as nouns, transfer means the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another, whereas transferal means a transfer, especially the making over of legal title or ownership to another.


Transfer is also verb with the meaning: to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

check bellow for the other definitions of Transfer and Transferal

  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.

  1. Transferal as a noun:

    a transfer, especially the making over of legal title or ownership to another