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transfer

/ˈtɹænzfɜː/

noun

Meaning

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

Synonyms

transferal,
transference,
transfer student,
transferal

verb

Meaning

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

    "to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion"

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

    "to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone"

  • To be or become transferred.

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

    "The title to land is transferred by deed."

Synonyms

copy,
transpose,
carry over,
move,
onpass