Transfer vs. Relay — What's the Difference?

Move from one place to another

A relay is an electrically operated switch. It consists of a set of input terminals for a single or multiple control signals, and a set of operating contact terminals.

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

An act of passing something along from one person, group, or station to another.

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

A relay race.

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

A division of a relay race.

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

(Electronics) A device that responds to a small current or voltage change by activating switches or other devices in an electric circuit.

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

A crew of workers who relieve another crew; a shift.

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

A fresh team, as of horses or dogs, to relieve weary animals in a hunt, task, or journey.

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

To pass along by or as if by relay

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

To supply with fresh relays.

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

(Electronics) To control or retransmit by means of a relay.

To move oneself from one location or job to another.

A new set of hounds.

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

A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.

To change from one public conveyance to another

(by extension) A new set of anything.

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

A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.

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

(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.

A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another.

(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.

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

(transitive) To pass on or transfer (information).

A place where such a change is made.

To release a new set of hounds.

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

To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another.

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

To take on a new relay of horses; to change horses.

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

Alternative spelling of re-lay

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 lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

(intransitive) To be or become transferred.

A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.

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

In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.

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

Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an auxiliary apparatus put into action by a feeble force but itself capable of exerting greater force, used to control a comparatively powerful machine or appliance.

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

The act of relaying something

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.

Electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit

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.

Pass along;

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

Control or operate by relay

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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;