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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 greatest surprises of our time in a bookish way was not the sale of the library at Althorp, which had been rumoured as a contingency many years before it occurred, but its transfer by the purchaser to Manchester. We were all rather sorry to learn that the climax had at length been reached; the sacrifice was doubtless a painful one on more than one account; but it was presumably unavoidable, and the noble owner was encouraged by numerous ...

— The Book-Collector • William Carew Hazlitt

... same year Robert came forward with a plan for reorganization in the executive department of the business. He proposed that they should build an immense exhibition and storage warehouse on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, and transfer a portion of their completed stock there. Chicago was more central than Cincinnati. Buyers from the West and country merchants could be more easily reached and dealt with there. It would be a big advertisement for the house, a magnificent evidence of its standing and prosperity. ...

— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser

... something the progress of events, for hurry it as much as he could in those days, St. Renan could not, of course, work miracles; and though the brigantine was purchased, where she lay ready to sail, at Calais, the instant the sale of St. Renan was determined, without awaiting the completion of the transfer, or the payment of the purchase-money, many days had elapsed before the news could be sent from the capital to the coast, and the vessel ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 • Various

... contemplates the transfer of the slaves to Africa, as the means of mitigating those supposed evils to which they are subjected, having already established by way of derision a republic there, I deem it legitimate to make some inquiry into the nature and condition of the inhabitants ...

— The Right of American Slavery • True Worthy Hoit

... ornaments are repeated several times, I shall have to make a number of full-sized drawings, with perforated outlines, to transfer the design to the walls,' said Owen, and he proceeded to laboriously ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

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