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Meaning of transfer

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

transfer

Pronunciation:/ˈtɹænzfɜː//tɹænzˈfɜː//ˈtɹænsfɝ//tɹænsˈfɝ/

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

  2. An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.

  3. A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.

  4. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

verb

Definitions

  1. To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

    Example: to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion

  2. To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

    Example: to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone

  3. To be or become transferred.

  4. To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

    Example: The title to land is transferred by deed.