transfer
See also: Transfer
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- xfer (abbreviation)
EtymologyEdit
From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”).
PronunciationEdit
- (verb)
- (noun)
VerbEdit
transfer (third-person singular simple present transfers, present participle transferring, simple past and past participle transferred)
- (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
- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- (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
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
- The title to land is transferred by deed.
SynonymsEdit
- (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):
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another
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to convey the impression of something from one surface to another
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to be or become transferred
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arrange for something to belong to or be controlled by somebody else
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NounEdit
transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)
- (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.
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (US, Canada, varsity sports) Short for transfer student.
Usage notesEdit
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (act): transferal, transference
- (instance): transferal
- (college sports): transfer student
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
act
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instance
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design
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genetics
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DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English transfer.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: trans‧fer
NounEdit
transfer m or n (plural transfers, diminutive transfertje n)
SynonymsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English transfer.
NounEdit
transfer m (invariable)
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
trānsfer
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Internationalism; compare English transfer, French transfer, German Transfer, ultimately from Latin trānsferō.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
transfer m inan
- (economics) transfer (payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity)
- Hypernym: przekaz
- (transport) transfer (act of transporting individuals or objects from one place to another by some means of transport)
- (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
- (sports) transfer (act of transferring of a player's registration from one club to another)
- (computing) transfer (number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given data-transfer channel)
- (psychology) transfer of learning
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
adjective
verb
- transferować impf
Further readingEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
transfer n (plural transferuri)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of transfer
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) transfer | transferul | (niște) transferuri | transferurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) transfer | transferului | (unor) transferuri | transferurilor |
| vocative | transferule | transferurilor | ||
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English transfer.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
trànsfēr m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нсфе̄р)
DeclensionEdit
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 |
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
transfer m (plural transferes)
- transfer (between transport)
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
transfer (definite accusative transferi, plural transferler)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- transfer in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu