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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

... the only word there was for it. It struck me that look must stop. If I had to march her out into the bush with me by force next morning, I meant to get a solitary talk with her; find out what her mysterious business was at La Chance with a man who had laid up for our gold; and, with any luck, transfer the hunted look to the face of the man who was hounding her,—for I felt certain he was still ...

— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones

... let him marry Margaret they would be dependent upon her; she could control them—him—through holding the purse strings. And when that remote time came at which it would please God to call her from her earthly labors to their eternal reward, she could transfer the control to Margaret. "Men of his origin are always weak on the social side," she reflected. "And it wouldn't be in nature for a person as grasping of power as he is not to ...

— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips

... of property for benefit of creditors; fraudulent transfer of property; leaving, or remaining out of, England, or absence from dwelling-house to defeat or delay creditors; filing declaration of insolvency or presenting a bankruptcy petition against self; levy ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... to transfer the woman from the tug to the ambulance, and when the car had departed, Douglas ...

— The Unknown Wrestler • H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

... consumed weekly by the Times at seventy tons; the ink at two tons. There are employed in the office ten stereotypers, sixteen firemen and engineers, ninety machine-men, six men who prepare the paper for printing, and seven to transfer the papers to the news-agents. The new Walter press prints 22,000 to 24,000 impressions an hour, or 12,000 perfect sheets printed on both sides. It prints from a roll of paper three-quarters of a mile long, and cuts the sheets and piles ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

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