transfer
The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to anotherThe act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
» I'd like to request a transfer.
Meaning
11 senses(uncountable)The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
Übertragung, Versetzung, Überweisung
перехо́дperexód, перево́дperevód, трансфе́ртtransfért
переда́чаperedáča
the act of transferring something from one form to another
(countable)An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
перехо́дperexód
(countable)An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
(countable)A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
(countable)A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
(countable, uncountable)A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
(countable, uncountable)A pathological process by 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.
(countable, uncountable)The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
(countable, uncountable)A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
(countable, uncountable)A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
(countable)Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
Examples
276 sentencesI'd like to request a transfer.
I put in for a transfer.
Tom has been transferred to Boston.
Tom got transferred to another branch.
Tom got transferred to another department.
Translations
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Origin
From Latin trānsferō (“to bear across”). Distant doublet of translate. See also collate anFrom Latin trānsferō (“to bear across”). Distant doublet of translate. See also collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
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Forms
plural: transfersSynonyms
10 synonyms- the act of transferring something from one form to another:transference
- transferring ownership:transference
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation:transfer of trainingcarry-over
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another:transferee
- the act of moving something from one location to another:transportationtransporttransferralconveyance
Word family
69 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
7 patterns- be transferred to
- transferred to another
- got transferred to
- to be transferred
- transferred to the
- has been transferred
- got transferred