Transfer vs Channel - What's the Difference?
Definition as Noun
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a television station and its programs
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
Definition as Noun
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transfering something from one form to another
- transferring ownership
- the act of moving something from one location to another
Definition as Verb
- direct the flow of
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- send from one person or place to another
Definition as Verb
- move from one place to another
- cause to change ownership
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- move around
- send from one person or place to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
- transfer from one place or period to another
Examples
- "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street"
- "the ship went aground in the channel"
- "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
- "possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores"
- "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs"
- "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels"
- "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"
- "channel information towards a broad audience"
- "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
- "the best student was a transfer from LSU"
- "the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise"
- "transfer the data"; "transmit the news"; "transfer the patient to another hospital"
- "I transferred my stock holdings to my children"
- "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast"
- "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court"
- "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"
- "Transplant the young rice plants"
- "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"