Transfer vs Unload - What's the difference?
transfer | unload |
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 remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
To deposit one's load or cargo.
* 1998 , Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
* 1984 , John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
(computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
* 1993 , Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
To discharge or pour a liquid.
To get rid of or dispose of.
(slang) To go to the bathroom.
To deliver forcefully.
(slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice
To draw the charge from.
In transitive terms the difference between transfer and unload
is that transfer is to convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another while unload is to draw the charge from.In intransitive terms the difference between transfer and unload
is that transfer is to be or become transferred while unload is to deposit one's load or cargo.As a noun transfer
is the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.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.unload
English
Verb
(en verb)- to unload''' a ship; to '''unload a camel
- to unload bales of hay from a truck
- Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.
- ...who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.
- When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.
- to unload unprofitable stocks
- to unload feces
- to unload a gun
