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transfer

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”). Distant doublet of translate. See also collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.

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transfer (third-person singular simple present transfers, present participle transferring, simple past and past participle transferred)

  1. (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
  2. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
    to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
  3. (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.
    transfer to the Blue Line
  4. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
  5. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
    The title to land is transferred by deed.
  6. (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.

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  • (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):

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Noun

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transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)

  1. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
    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. (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.
  5. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  6. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  7. (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.
  8. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
  9. (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
  10. (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
  11. (US, Canada, varsity sports) Short for transfer student.
  12. (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
    • 2015, Lisa Lighthall Haubert, et al, “Car transfer and wheelchair loading techniques in independent drivers with paraplegia”, in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology:
      Understanding car transfers and [wheelchair] loading in independent drivers is crucial to prevent shoulder pain and injury and preserve community participation.
    • 2018, Bed Mobility and Transfers (PDF) , Pioneer Network:
      Transfers and bed mobility are a normal part of our daily activities. Going from lying down to sitting edge of bed, rolling, getting in/out of bed, sitting and standing from bed/chairs and toilet are all examples of transfers and bed mobility.

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  • 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.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English transfer.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: trans‧fer

Noun

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transfer m or n (plural transfers, diminutive transfertje n)

  1. transfer

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English transfer, from Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”).

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Verb

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transfer

  1. to transfer

Noun

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transfer (plural transfer-transfer)

  1. transfer
    1. (sports) the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English transfer.

Noun

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transfer m (invariable)

  1. transport
  2. transfer (tourist, e.g. airport to hotel)

Latin

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trānsfer

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of trānsferō

Polish

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Etymology

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Internationalism; compare English transfer, French transfert, German Transfer, ultimately from Latin trānsferō.

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Noun

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transfer m inan

  1. (economics) transfer (payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity)
    Hypernym: przekaz
  2. (transport) transfer (act of transporting individuals or objects from one place to another by some means of transport)
    Synonyms: przewóz, transport
  3. (transport) transfer (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)
    Synonym: przesiadka
  4. (sports) transfer (act of transferring of a player's registration from one club to another)
  5. (computing) transfer (number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given data-transfer channel)
  6. (psychology) transfer of learning

Declension

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Declension of transfer
singular plural
nominative transfer transfery
genitive transferu transferów
dative transferowi transferom
accusative transfer transfery
instrumental transferem transferami
locative transferze transferach
vocative transferze transfery

Derived terms

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adjective
verb

Further reading

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  • transfer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • transfer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French transfert.

Noun

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transfer n (plural transferuri)

  1. transfer

Declension

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Declension of transfer
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative transfer transferul transferuri transferurile
genitive-dative transfer transferului transferuri transferurilor
vocative transferule transferurilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English transfer.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /trǎnsfeːr/
  • Hyphenation: trans‧fer

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trànsfēr m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нсфе̄р)

  1. transfer
  2. transport

Declension

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Declension of transfer
singular plural
nominative trànsfēr transferi
genitive transféra transfera
dative transferu transferima
accusative transfer transfere
vocative transferu transferi
locative transferu transferima
instrumental transferom transferima

Spanish

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transfer m (plural transferes)

  1. transfer (between transport)

Turkish

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Etymology

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From French transfert.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɾɑns.fɛɾ/
  • Hyphenation: trans‧fer

Noun

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transfer (definite accusative transferi, plural transferler)

  1. transfer

Declension

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Declension of transfer
singular plural
nominative transfer transferler
definite accusative transferi transferleri
dative transfere transferlere
locative transferde transferlerde
ablative transferden transferlerden
genitive transferin transferlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular plural
1st singular transferim transferlerim
2nd singular transferin transferlerin
3rd singular transferi transferleri
1st plural transferimiz transferlerimiz
2nd plural transferiniz transferleriniz
3rd plural transferleri transferleri
definite accusative
singular plural
1st singular transferimi transferlerimi
2nd singular transferini transferlerini
3rd singular transferini transferlerini
1st plural transferimizi transferlerimizi
2nd plural transferinizi transferlerinizi
3rd plural transferlerini transferlerini
dative
singular plural
1st singular transferime transferlerime
2nd singular transferine transferlerine
3rd singular transferine transferlerine
1st plural transferimize transferlerimize
2nd plural transferinize transferlerinize
3rd plural transferlerine transferlerine
locative
singular plural
1st singular transferimde transferlerimde
2nd singular transferinde transferlerinde
3rd singular transferinde transferlerinde
1st plural transferimizde transferlerimizde
2nd plural transferinizde transferlerinizde
3rd plural transferlerinde transferlerinde
ablative
singular plural
1st singular transferimden transferlerimden
2nd singular transferinden transferlerinden
3rd singular transferinden transferlerinden
1st plural transferimizden transferlerimizden
2nd plural transferinizden transferlerinizden
3rd plural transferlerinden transferlerinden
genitive
singular plural
1st singular transferimin transferlerimin
2nd singular transferinin transferlerinin
3rd singular transferinin transferlerinin
1st plural transferimizin transferlerimizin
2nd plural transferinizin transferlerinizin
3rd plural transferlerinin transferlerinin

References

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  • “transfer”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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