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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



... 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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