Dictionary Entry
transfer
transfer is a 8-letter English word with 25 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 25 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.
- 4noun
The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
- 5noun
The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
- 6noun
That which is transferred.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
- 9noun
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- 10noun
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.
- 11noun
the act of transfering something from one form to another
"the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise"
Synonyms
- 12noun
the act of moving something from one location to another
- 13noun
transferring ownership
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- 14noun
application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- 15noun
a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- 16noun
someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
"the best student was a transfer from LSU"
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- 17verb
transfer from one place or period to another
"The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"
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- 18verb
send from one person or place to another
"transmit a message"
- 19verb
lift and reset in another soil or situation
"Transplant the young rice plants"
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- 20verb
move around
"transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"
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- 21verb
shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
"He removed his children to the countryside"
"Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"
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- 22verb
change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
"She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast"
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- 23verb
cause to change ownership
"I transferred my stock holdings to my children"
- 24verb
move from one place to another
"transfer the data"
"transmit the news"
- 25verb
transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
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