transfer
See also: Transfer
English
Etymology
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From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”).
Pronunciation
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- (noun)
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Verb
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- (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
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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[1], 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.
- (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.
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.
Synonyms
- (act): transferal, transference
- (instance): transferal
Related terms
Translations
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instance
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design
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English transfer.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: trans‧fer
Noun
transfer m or n (plural transfers, diminutive transfertje n)
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English transfer.
Noun
transfer m (uncountable)
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) trānsfer
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English transfer.
Pronunciation
Noun
trànsfēr m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нсфе̄р)
Declension
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 |
Spanish
Noun
transfer m (plural transferes)
- transfer (between transport)
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