Transfer definition

trăns-fûr, trănsfər
transferred transferring transfers
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To move oneself from one location or job to another.
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To convey or cause to pass from one place, person, or thing to another.
verb
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To withdraw from one educational institution or course of study and enroll in another.
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To make over or convey (property, title to property, etc.) to another.
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To convey (a design, for example) from one surface to another, as by impression.
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One who transfers or is transferred, as to a new school.
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To change from one public conveyance to another.

Transferred to another bus.

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Transfer is defined as to move, carry or transport from one person or place to another.

An example of to transfer is the owner of a car signing the title over to a new owner.

An example of to transfer is picking up a package from one location and bringing it to another.

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The conveyance or removal of something from one place, person, or thing to another.
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A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another.
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(law) To make over the possession or legal title of (property, for example); convey.
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(law) A conveyance of title or property from one person to another.
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A ticket entitling a passenger to change from one public conveyance to another as part of one trip.
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A place where such a change is made.
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To transfer oneself or be transferred; move.
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To withdraw from one school, college, course of study, etc. and be admitted to another.
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A person who transfers or is transferred from one school, post, position, etc. to another.
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A transferring or being transferred.
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A means of transferring.
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The transferring of a title, right, etc. from one person to another.
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The document effecting this.
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Any and every method of removing something from one person or place to another; specifically, the handing over of possession or control of assets or title. Transfer may be affected by assignment, by delivery, by indorsement, and by operation of law. the act of handing over possession or control.
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To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

To transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

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

To transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

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(intransitive) To be or become transferred.
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(law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

The title to land is transferred by deed.

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(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
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(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
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(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
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A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
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(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.
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To convey, carry, remove, or send from one person, place, or position to another.
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To convey (a picture, design, etc.) from one surface to another by any of several processes.
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To change from one bus, train, or streetcar to another, usually by presenting a transfer.
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A ticket, provided free or at a small extra charge, entitling the bearer to change from one bus, train, or streetcar to another as specified.
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A thing or person that is transferred; specif., a picture or design transferred or to be transferred from one surface to another.
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A place for transferring.
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A form or document effecting a transfer, as from one post or position to another.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
transfer
Plural:
transfers

Origin of transfer

  • Middle English transferren from Old French transferer from Latin trānsferre trāns- trans- ferre to carry bher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across").

    From Wiktionary

Transfer Sentence Examples

  • He would fly to Los Angeles, then transfer for the short hop north to Santa Barbara.

  • The cost of transfer was about £I,000,000.

  • Transfer it immediately from the bag to a bottle.

  • Julie was a basket case when she learned she'd be required to transfer planes in Los Angeles.

  • I'd transfer out of this place if I didn't have to say why I was in such a hurry to leave.

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