transfer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trāns-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin trānsferōder.
English transfer
From 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.
Inflected forms:
form: transfers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transferring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transferred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transferred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: transfer
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: transfer
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: transferred
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: transfer
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: transferrest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: transferred
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: transferredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: transfers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transferreth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: transferred
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: transfer
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: transferred
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: transfer
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: transferred
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: transfer
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: transferring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transferred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: xfer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion
gloss: To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
gloss: To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
pos: verb
examples: transfer to the Blue Line
gloss: To be or become transferred.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The title to land is transferred by deed.
gloss: To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: abalienate
alien
alienate
assign
change hands
consign
convey
grant
transfer
Related words: transference
trade
Derived words: acetyltransfer
aminotransfer
biotransfer
transferability
transferable
transferor
transferrer
transferror
cotransfer
electrotransfer
mistransfer
retransfer
retrotransfer
transferee
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