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Webster 1913 Edition
Transfer
Trans-fer′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Transferred
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Transferring
.] 1.
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
suspicion2.
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 deed3.
To remove from one substance or surface to another;
as, to
. transfer
drawings or engravings to a lithographic stoneTomlinson.
Syn. – To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.
Trans′fer
,Noun.
1.
The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
2.
(Law)
The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
I shall here only consider it as a
transfer
of property. Burke.
3.
That which is transferred.
Specifically: –(a)
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.
Fairholt.
(b)
A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
(c)
(Mil.)
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
4.
(Med.)
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.
Transfer day
, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o’clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.
Bithell.
– Transfer office
, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made.
– Transfer paper
, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions.
– Transfer table
. (Railroad)
Same as
Traverse table
. See under Traverse
.Webster 1828 Edition
Transfer
TRANSFER'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To convey from one place or person to another; to transport or remove to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another. The seat of government was transferred from New York to Albany. We say, a war is transferred from France to Germany. Pain or the seat of disease in the body, is often transferred from one part to another.2.
To make over; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to sell; to give. The title to land is transferred by deed. The property of a bill of exchange may be transferred by indorsement. Stocks are transferred by assignment, or entering the same under the name of the purchaser in the proper books.Definition 2024
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See also: Transfer
English
Verb
transfer (third-person singular simple present transfers, present participle transferring, simple past and past participle transferred)
- (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion
- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
- The title to land is transferred by deed.
Synonyms
- (move or pass from one place/person/thing to another): carry over, move, onpass
- (convey impression of from one surface to another): copy, transpose
- (to be or become transferred):
Derived terms
Translations
to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another
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to convey the impression of something from one surface to another
to be or become transferred
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arrange for something to belong to or be controlled by somebody else
Noun
transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)
- (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.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
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- (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.
Synonyms
- (act): transferal, transference
- (instance): transferal
Usage notes
- In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.
Translations
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: trans‧fer
Etymology
Borrowing from English transfer.
Noun
transfer m, n (plural transfers, diminutive transfertje n)
Synonyms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowing from English transfer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trǎnsfeːr/
- Hyphenation: trans‧fer
Noun
trànsfēr m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нсфе̄р)