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Transfer

noun

1.

The act of moving something from one location to another. Synonyms: conveyance, transferral, transport, transportation.

2.

Someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another. Synonym: transferee.

3.

The act of transfering something from one form to another. Synonym: transference.

4.

A ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances.

5.

Application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation. Synonyms: carry-over, transfer of training.

6.

Transferring ownership. Synonym: transference.

verb

(past & past part. transferred; pres. part. transferring)

1.

Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work. Synonym: reassign.

2.

Move from one place to another. "Transmit the news" , "Transfer the patient to another hospital"

3.

Lift and reset in another soil or situation. Synonym: transplant.

4.

Move around. Synonym: shift.

5.

Cause to change ownership.

6.

Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another. Synonym: change.

7.

Send from one person or place to another. Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport.

8.

Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes. Synonym: remove. "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city" , "Remove a case to another court"

9.

Transfer from one place or period to another. Synonyms: transplant, transpose.

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"Transfer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Because of the transfer of authority in our form of government affects the state of the Union and of the world, I am happy to report to you that the current transition is proceeding very well. I was determined that it should; I wanted the new President to ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... Winston's Bridge. Three and a half miles below Mechanicsville Bridge is New Bridge. The northern approaches to Mechanicsville, Meadow, and New Bridge, were in possession of the Federals; and it was consequently no simple operation to transfer the troops before Richmond from one bank of the Chickahominy to the other. Only Mechanicsville and Meadow Bridges could be used. Winston's Bridge was too far from Richmond, for, if Longstreet and the two Hills were to cross at that point, not only would ...

— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... De Montfort's man leave the note with Father Claude and he had seen the priest hide it under a great bowl on his table, so that when the good father left his cottage, it was the matter of but a moment's work for Spizo to transfer the message from its hiding place to the breast of his tunic. The fellow could not read, but he to whom he took the missive could, laboriously, decipher the Latin ...

— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... Mendelssohn putting in the orchestral accompaniments on the fourth piano. With Mendelssohn he contracted quite an intimacy. In 1836 he found himself very much devoted to Clara Wieck, and in order to secure a more favorable opening for his career, resolved to transfer himself and the paper to Vienna, but after a year he returned again to Leipsic, and then the course of true love became more difficult, for Papa Wieck was resolutely opposed to the match; but after some months his consent was given, and they were married in 1840. During this year ...

— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews

... choice. The growth in number of students also produced changes in administration favorable to the introduction of the elective system. In the early history of the American college one instructor taught a single class in all subjects, and it was not until 1776 that the transfer was made at Harvard from the teaching of classes by one instructor to the teaching of each subject by one instructor. With increase in numbers the students were unable to receive in each year instruction by every member of the teaching staff. ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

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