Transfer vs Interchange - What's the difference?
transfer | interchange |
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.
to switch (each of two things)
to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
* Shakespeare
to swap or change places
to alternate; to intermingle or vary
An act of interchanging.
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A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
(rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
As nouns the difference between transfer and interchange
is that transfer is transfer while interchange is an act of interchanging.As a verb interchange is
to switch (each of two things).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
citation
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.interchange
English
Verb
(interchang)- to interchange places
- I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's regal crown.
- to interchange cares with pleasures
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=That was one of three superb saves Hennessey made in the opening 45 minutes, the best of which was from Dzeko, who had been released by a slick interchange involving Silva and Sergio Aguero.}}
- Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines