transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/
ipa: /tɹænsˈfɜː/
enpr: trănsfûrʹ
ipa: /tɹænsˈfɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɹæns.fɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːns.fɜː/
ipa: /ˈtɹæns.fɜː/
enpr: 'trănsfûr
Forms: form: transfers
form: xfer
Etymology: From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”). Distant doublet of translate. See also collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Senses: glosses: The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
examples: text: A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
ref: 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
examples: text: Free transfers can be made between the Red and Orange Lines by walking from one of the station's platforms to another; in addition, riders using a fare card also get free transfers between bus and subway at the station.
topics: transport
glosses: 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.
topics: transport
glosses: 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.
examples: text: All passenger stock is lettered in shaded gold leaf transfers and has never been decorated with either a crest or monogram.
ref: 1956 May, D. B. McNeill, “The Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
glosses: A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
glosses: A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
qualifier: varsity sports
glosses: Ellipsis of transfer student.
examples: text: Understanding car transfers and [wheelchair] loading in independent drivers is crucial to prevent shoulder pain and injury and preserve community participation.
ref: 2015, Lisa Lighthall Haubert, et al, “Car transfer and wheelchair loading techniques in independent drivers with paraplegia”, in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology:
text: Transfers and bed mobility are a normal part of our daily activities. Going from lying down to sitting edge of bed, rolling, getting in/out of bed, sitting and standing from bed/chairs and toilet are all examples of transfers and bed mobility.
ref: 2018, Bed Mobility and Transfers (PDF), Pioneer Network
glosses: Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
Synonyms: sense: act
word: transferal
sense: act
word: transference
sense: instance
word: transferal
sense: college sports
word: transfer student
Derived terms: asynchronous transfer mode
balance transfer
bank transfer
bi-elliptic transfer
Bosman transfer
celestial transfer
cold transfer
credit transfer
data transfer object
data transfer rate
dry transfer
electronic benefit transfer
electron transfer
electron transfer reaction
embryo transfer
energy transfer
e-transfer
feedback transfer function
forward transfer function
free transfer
gene transfer
Gruen transfer
hairpin transfer
hip transfer
Hohmann transfer
Hohmann transfer orbit
horizontal gene transfer
Jacoby transfer
language transfer
lateral gene transfer
lateral transfer
loop transfer function
negative transfer
oblivious transfer
personnel transfer basket
phase transfer catalysis
phase-transfer catalyst
positive transfer
proton transfer
radiative transfer
representational state transfer
somatic cell nuclear transfer
spine transfer
technology transfer
time and frequency transfer
time transfer
transferable
transferrable
transfer agent
transferal
transferral
transferase
transfer DNA
transfer earnings
transferee
transference
transferrence
transferent
transferential
transferer
transfer exam
transfer function
transfer list
transfer market
transfer orbit
transfer paper
transfer payment
transfer pricing
transfer rate
transferrin
transferring
transfer RNA
transfer tax
transfer test
transferware
transfer window
trophic transfer
warm transfer
wire transfer
Related terms: translate
translation