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Transfer   /trænsfˈər/  /trˈænsfər/   Listen
noun
Transfer  n.  
1.
The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
2.
(Law) The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise. "I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property."
3.
That which is transferred. Specifically:
(a)
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.
(b)
A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
(c)
(Mil.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
4.
(Med.) 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.
Transfer day, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.
Transfer office, an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made.
Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions.
Transfer table. (Railroad) Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse.


verb
Transfer  v. t.  (past & past part. transferred; pres. part. transferring)  
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.
Synonyms: To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.





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"Transfer" Quotes from Famous Books



... with any of the cells of the body except those lining the tubes themselves. The capillaries, to be sure, bring the blood very near the cells of the different tissues; still, there is need of a liquid to fill the space between the capillaries and the cells and to transfer materials from one to the other. The lymph occupies this position and does this work. The position of the lymph with reference to the capillaries and the cells is shown in ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.
... can make two loads apiece to-day, and, by starting early, three loads apiece on Monday, which will transfer the whole thousand bushels to the canal. I will go down immediately and see that a boat is ready to commence loading. You can go ...
— Off-Hand Sketches - a Little Dashed with Humor • T. S. Arthur
... seized with convulsions when it is subjected to operations on too great a scale, and these, although restricted, were probably all that France in 1789 could endure. To equitably reorganize afresh the whole system of direct and indirect taxation; to revise, recast, and transfer to the frontiers the customs-tariffs; to suppress, through negotiations and with indemnity, feudal and ecclesiastical claims, was an operation of the greatest magnitude, and as complex as it was delicate. Things could be satisfactorily ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 1 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... ask permission of the reader to advance the time just eight-and-forty hours; a liberty with the unities which, he will do us the justice to say, we have not often taken. We must also transfer the scene to that already described at Wychecombe, including the Head, the station, the roads, and the inland and seaward views. Summer weather had returned, too, the pennants of the ships at anchor scarce streaming from their masts far enough to form curved ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... engine-room, and in the company of some of the few half-drowned sufferers we have already picked up from temporary rafts, I forget the general aspect of desolation in their individual misery. Later we meet the San Francisco packet, and transfer a number of our passengers. From them we learn how inward-bound vessels report to having struck the well-defined channel of the Sacramento fifty miles beyond the bar. There is a voluntary contribution taken among ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte


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