transfer
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (verb)
- (noun)
Etymology [edit]
From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”).
Verb [edit]
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.
- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (transitive) (law) To arrange for something to officially belong to or be controlled by somebody else.
Synonyms [edit]
- (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 [edit]
Translations [edit]
to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another
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to convey the impression of sth 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
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Noun [edit]
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”, 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.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- (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.
Synonyms [edit]
- (act): transferal, transference
- (instance): transferal
- (design):
Usage notes [edit]
- 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 [edit]
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Related terms [edit]
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
English
Noun [edit]
transfer m (invariable)
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Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
trānsfer
- second-person singular present active imperative of trānsferō
Serbo-Croatian [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /trǎnsfeːr/
- Hyphenation: trans‧fer
Noun [edit]
trànsfēr m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нсфе̄р)
Declension [edit]
declension of transfer
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | trànsfēr | transferi |
| genitive | transféra | transfera |
| dative | transferu | transferima |
| accusative | transfer | transfere |
| vocative | transferu | transferi |
| locative | transferu | transferima |
| instrumental | transferom | transferima |
