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The Meaning of transfer

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.
  • (n.) The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
  • (n.) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
  • (n.) That which is transferred.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
  • (n.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • (n.) 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.

Synonyms

transportation , transport , transferral , conveyance , transferee , transference , transfer of training , carry-over , transference , reassign , transplant , shift , change , transmit , transport , channel , channelize , channelise , remove , transpose , transplant

Rhymes

amateur , bir , birr , blur , bur , burr , chauffeur , chesshir , cofer , concur , confer , connoisseur , credeur , cur , defer , demur , der , derbyshire , deter , dirr , dufur , duhr , durr , entrepreneur , esquer , eure , fer , fir , fleur , fluhr , francoeur , fur , furr , furrh , gurr , her , hur , incur , infer , inter , jerr , ker , kerr , larkspur , liqueur , longspur , mccur , mcgirr , monsieur , murr , myrrh , nurre , occur , payeur , per , pere , prefer , pur , purr , ramseur , recur , redifer , refer , reoccur , restaurateur , saboteur , scher , schreur , schur , schurr , schwer , sher , shir , shirr , shur , shurr , sir , slur , spur , spurr , stir , stuhr , sur , swor , ter , thur , ur , were