trans·fer
(trăns-fûŕ, trănśfər)
[Middle English transferren, from Old French transferer, from Latin trānsferre, trāns-, trans-, + ferre, to carry.]
verb: -ferred, -fer·ring, -fers.
transitive verb
- To convey or cause to pass from one place, person, or thing to another.
- Law To make over the possession or legal title of; convey.
- To convey (a design, for example) from one surface to another, as by impression.
intransitive verb
- To move oneself from one location or job to another.
- To withdraw from one educational institution or course of study and enroll in another.
- To change from one public conveyance to another: transferred to another bus.
noun
- The conveyance or removal of something from one place, person, or thing to another.
- One who transfers or is transferred, as to a new school.
- A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another.
- A ticket entitling a passenger to change from one public conveyance to another as part of one trip.
- A place where such a change is made.
- Law A conveyance of title or property from one person to another.
derivatives
- trans·feŕa·biĺi·ty
- noun
- trans·feŕa·ble
- adjective
- trans·feŕrer
- noun
