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