transfer
IPA: trænsfˈɝ
noun
- (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.
- (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
- (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.
- (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
- (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
- (US, Canada, varsity sports) Short for transfer student. [A student who transfers from one university / college to another after studying there for a term / semester or more]
verb
- (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.
- (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
- (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
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Examples of "transfer" in Sentences
- The transference simply faded.
- He transferred to the other school.
- The exclusive right is transferable.
- Actors should be good at transference.
- A hallmark of the genre is transferability.
- It's focused on the concept of Transference.
- Is the featured picture status transferable
- Liability to the third bailee was not transferable.
- They transfer to his class and work to change the ethos of the school.
- Manchester United needs to move quickly to finalize a transfer deal for Zaha.
- That dollar makes the title transfer legally binding and is a mere legalrequirement.
- The title transfer bore a signature Hiss acknowledged to be his own, notarized by Hiss '
- The practical effect of the title transfer was negligible and did not grant any more land than that already under Aboriginal ownership.
- Afterwards we headed to the DMV for the title transfer, but it would have been at least a two hour wait…and we each had our young sons with us.
- On Monday, not ten minutes after completing the title transfer for my new car and getting new plates and stickers and junk, I was rearended by a stupid goddamn SUV.
- The phrase "transfer union" has become a dirty word in Germany, where much of the electorate is vehemently against their money being used to bail out less prudent countries.
- The firm also found a number of foreclosure sales that occurred less than 20 days after the Notice of Trustees sale, casting doubt on the legitimacy of the title transfer to the new owner.
- Liberal Justice Ruth Ginsberg conceded that no matter the outcome of the arguments before the court, Congress can simply keep passing laws to transfer land to the veterans group until the title transfer passes judicial muster.
- Parry argued that a transfer window would ultimately improve the quality of play on the pitch in England – "That has to be the objective of the Premier League" – but he seems to have failed to convince the smaller clubs of the case as the phrase "transfer window" isn't uttered again in the hallowed pages of the Guardian archive until 1998.