Transfer vs. Transference — What's the Difference?

Move from one place to another

Transference (German: Übertragung) is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which the feelings a person had about their parents, as one example, are unconsciously redirected or transferred to the present situation. It usually concerns feelings from a primary relationship during childhood.

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

The act or process of transferring.

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

The fact of being transferred.

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

The process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person, such as a parent or sibling, are unconsciously shifted to another person, especially to a psychotherapist or psychoanalyst during a course of treatment.

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

The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.

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

(psychology) The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.

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

The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

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

(psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst

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

Transferring ownership

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

The act of transfering something from one form to another;

To move oneself from one location or job to another.

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

To change from one public conveyance to another

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

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

A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another.

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

A place where such a change is made.

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

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

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

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

(intransitive) To be or become transferred.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

(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;