transfer

1. 1

   To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.transitive

   • to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion
2. 2

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

   • to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
3. 3

   To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.

   • transfer to the Blue Line
4. 4

   To be or become transferred.intransitive

5. 5

   To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.transitive

   • The title to land is transferred by deed.
6. 6

   To 'carry' or apply anything (a concept, a name...) from one type of thing to a different type of thing.transitive

   • The ancient Romans named the planet Mars by transferring that name from a deity of their pantheon to the planet appearing in the night sky.
7. 7

   To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.intransitive

syn. abalienate · alien · alienate · assign · change hands · consign · convey · grant · transfer

1. 1

   The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.uncountable

2. 2

   An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.countable

   • 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.
3. 3

   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

   • Free transfers can be made between the Red and Orange Lines by walking from one of the station's platforms to another; in addition, riders using a fare card also get free transfers between bus and subway at the station.
4. 4

   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

5. 5

   A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.countable

   • All passenger stock is lettered in shaded gold leaf transfers and has never been decorated with either a crest or monogram.
6. 6

   A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.countableuncountable

7. 7

   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.countableuncountable

8. 8

   The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.countableuncountable

9. 9

   A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.countableuncountable

10. 10

    A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.countableuncountable

syn. transferal · transference