The difference between Transfer and Transference
When used as nouns, transfer means the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another, whereas transference means the act of conveying from one place 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 Transference
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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"
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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"
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Transfer as a verb (intransitive):
To be or become transferred.
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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."
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Transfer as a noun (uncountable):
The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
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Transfer as a noun (countable):
An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
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Transfer as a noun (countable):
A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
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Transfer as a noun:
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
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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.
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Transfer as a noun (genetics):
The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
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Transference as a noun:
The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.
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Transference as a noun (psychology):
The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.