Transfer vs. Connect — What's the Difference?

Move from one place to another

Bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established

Change to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey

Associate or relate (something) in some respect

Make over the possession of (property, a right, or a responsibility) to another

(of a blow) hit the intended target

Change (the sense of a word or phrase) by extension or metaphor

To join or fasten together

An act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.

To associate or consider as related

A small coloured picture or design on paper, which can be transferred to another surface by being pressed or heated

To join to or by means of a communications circuit

An act of changing to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey

To plug in (an electrical cord or device) to an outlet.

To convey or cause to pass from one place, person, or thing to another.

To become joined or united

(Law) To make over the possession or legal title of (property, for example); convey.

To be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as between airplanes or buses.

To convey (a design, for example) from one surface to another, as by impression.

To establish a rapport or relationship; relate

To move oneself from one location or job to another.

(Sports) To hit or play a ball or puck successfully

To withdraw from one educational institution or course of study and enroll in another.

To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

To change from one public conveyance to another

To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

Also trans·fer·al (trăns-fûrəl) The conveyance or removal of something from one place, person, or thing to another.

To arrive at an intended target; to land.

One who transfers or is transferred, as to a new school.

To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.

A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another.

To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

A ticket entitling a passenger to change from one public conveyance to another as part of one trip.

To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

A place where such a change is made.

To associate; to establish a relation between.

Also transferal(Law) A conveyance of title or property from one person to another.

To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

(transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

(slang) A drug dealer.

(transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.

To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.

To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.

(intransitive) To be or become transferred.

To establish a communication link; - used with with; as, his telephone didn't answer, so I connected with him by email.

To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

To electronically or mechanically link (a device) to another device, or to link a device to a common communication line; - used with with; as, the installer connected our telephones on Monday; I connected my VCR to the TV set by myself; the plumber connected a shut-off valve to my gas line.

(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connects with another.

(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.

Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces;

An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.

Make a logical or causal connection;

A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.

Be or become joined or united or linked;

(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.

Join by means of communication equipment;

A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

Land on or hit solidly;

(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.

Join for the purpose of communication;

(genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

Be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation;

(bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.

Establish a rapport or relationship;

(sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.

Establish communication with someone;

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

Plug into an outlet;

To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

Hit or play a ball successfully;

To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

That which is transferred.

A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.

A pathological process by virtue of 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.

A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

The act of transporting something from one location to another

Someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another;

The act of transfering something from one form to another;

A ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances

Application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation

Transferring ownership

Move around;

Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work

Move from one place to another;

Lift and reset in another soil or situation;

Cause to change ownership;

Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another;

Send from one person or place to another;

Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes;

Transfer from one place or period to another;