Transfer vs Export - What's the difference?
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To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
To be or become transferred.
(legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
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(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
(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.
of or relating to exportation or exports
(countable) something that is exported
(uncountable) the act of exporting
to carry away
* Francis Bacon
to sell (goods) to a foreign country
to cause to spread in another part of the world
(computing): to send (data) from one program to another
to put up (a child) for international adoption.
In transitive terms the difference between transfer and export
is that transfer is to convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another while export is to put up (a child) for international adoption.In uncountable terms the difference between transfer and export
is that transfer is the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another while export is the act of exporting.In countable terms the difference between transfer and export
is that transfer is a design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer while export is something that is exported.As an adjective export is
of or relating to exportation or exports.transfer
English
(wikipedia transfer)Verb
(transferr)- to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
- to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- The title to land is transferred by deed.
Synonyms
* carry over, move, onpass * (convey impression of from one surface to another) copy, transpose * (to be or become transferred)Derived terms
* transferee * transferorNoun
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Synonyms
* (act) transferal, transference * (instance) transferalUsage notes
* In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.export
English
Adjective
(-)Noun
(wikipedia export)- Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.
- The export of fish is forbidden in this country.
Synonyms
* (the act of exporting ): exportationAntonyms
* (something that is exported ): import * (the act of exporting ): import, importationVerb
(en verb)- [They] export honour from a man, and make him a return in envy.
- Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.