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/trænsfˈər/ /trˈænsfər/ Listen

noun

Transfer n.

1.

The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

2.

(Law) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise. "I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property."

3.

That which is transferred. Specifically:

(a)

A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.

(b)

A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

(c)

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

4.

(Med.) A pathological process by virtue of 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.

Transfer day, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.

Transfer office, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made.

Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions.

Transfer table. (Railroad) Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse.

verb

Transfer v. t. (past & past part. transferred; pres. part. transferring)

1.

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

2.

To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

3.

To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

Synonyms: To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.

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Etymology of 'Transfer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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