Transfer vs. Convert — What's the Difference?

Move from one place to another

To change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product; transform

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

To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another; adapt to a new or different purpose

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

To persuade or induce to adopt a particular religion, faith, or belief

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

To exchange for something of equal value

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

To express (a quantity) in alternative units

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

(Logic) To transform (a proposition) by conversion.

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

(Law) To appropriate (another's property) without right to one's own use.

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

To complete (a conversion, penalty shot, or free throw) successfully.

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

To score (a spare) in bowling.

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

To undergo a conversion

To move oneself from one location or job to another.

To be converted

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

(Football) To make a conversion.

To change from one public conveyance to another

(Sports) To shoot and score a goal, especially immediately after receiving a pass or gaining control of a rebound.

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

One who has been converted, especially from one religion or belief to another.

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

(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another.

(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.

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

(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief see also sense 11.

A place where such a change is made.

(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.

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

(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.

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

(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.

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

To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.

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 score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

(intransitive) To be or become transferred.

To score (especially a penalty kick).

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

To score a spare.

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

(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief see also sense 3.

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

(intransitive) To become converted.

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.

To cause to turn; to turn.

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.

To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

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

To turn into another language; to translate.

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

To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.

(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 perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.

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

To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.

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

A person who has converted to a religion.

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

A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.

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.

(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

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.

To cause to turn; to turn.

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

To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.

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

To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect 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.

To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.

That which is transferred.

To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

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.

To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

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.

To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

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

To turn into another language; to translate.

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

To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

The act of transporting something from one location to another

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

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

A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

The act of transfering something from one form to another;

A person who has been converted to another religious or political belief

A ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances

Change the nature, purpose, or function of something;

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

Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy;

Transferring ownership

Change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief;

Move around;

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;

Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work

Cause to adopt a new or different faith;

Move from one place to another;

Score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the endzone;

Lift and reset in another soil or situation;

Complete successfully;

Cause to change ownership;

Score (a spare)

Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another;

Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something;

Send from one person or place to another;

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one

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

Change in nature, purpose, or function; especially undergo a chemical change;

Transfer from one place or period to another;