transfer

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

transfer

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• xfer (abbreviation)

From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”).

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/, /tɹænsˈfɜː/

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  • (US) enPR: trănsfûrʹ, IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈfɚ/, /ˈtɹæns.fɚ/

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• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑːns.fɜː/, /ˈtɹæns.fɜː/
  • (US) enPR: 'trănsfûr, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæns.fɚ/

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transfer (third-person singular simple present transfers, present participle transferring, simple past and past participle transferred)

1. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

   to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion

2. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

   to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone

3. (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.

   transfer to the Blue Line

4. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
5. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

   The title to land is transferred by deed.

6. (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.

• (move or pass from one place/person/thing to another): carry over, move, onpass
• (convey impression of from one surface to another): copy, transpose
• (to be or become transferred):

• transferable
• transferee
• transferor

transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)

1. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
2. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     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.

3. (countable, transport) 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.

   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.

4. (countable, transport) 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.
5. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
6. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
7. (medicine) 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.
8. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
9. (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
10. (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
11. (US, Canada, varsity sports) Short for transfer student.
12. (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
    • 2015, Lisa Lighthall Haubert, et al, “Car transfer and wheelchair loading techniques in independent drivers with paraplegia”, in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology:

      Understanding car transfers and [wheelchair] loading in independent drivers is crucial to prevent shoulder pain and injury and preserve community participation.

    • 2018, Bed Mobility and Transfers (PDF) , Pioneer Network:

      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.

• In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition, which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.

• (act): transferal, transference
• (instance): transferal
• (college sports): transfer student

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

transfer

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Borrowed from English transfer.

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: trans‧fer

transfer m or n (plural transfers, diminutive transfertje n)

1. transfer

• overdracht

Borrowed from English transfer.

transfer m (invariable)

1. transport
2. transfer (tourist, e.g. airport to hotel)

trānsfer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of trānsferō

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

transfer

Wikipedia ^pl

Internationalism; compare English transfer, French transfert, German Transfer, ultimately from Latin trānsferō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrans.fɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ansfɛr
• Syllabification: trans‧fer

transfer m inan

1. (economics) transfer (payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity)

   Hypernym: przekaz

2. (transport) transfer (act of transporting individuals or objects from one place to another by some means of transport)

   Synonyms: przewóz, transport

3. (transport) transfer (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)

   Synonym: przesiadka

4. (sports) transfer (act of transferring of a player's registration from one club to another)
5. (computing) transfer (number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given data-transfer channel)
6. (psychology) transfer of learning

• transfer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• transfer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French transfert.

transfer n (plural transferuri)

1. transfer

Borrowed from English transfer.

• IPA^(key): /trǎnsfeːr/
• Hyphenation: trans‧fer

trànsfēr m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нсфе̄р)

1. transfer
2. transport

transfer m (plural transferes)

1. transfer (between transport)

From French transfert.

• IPA^(key): /tɾɑns.fɛɾ/
• Hyphenation: trans‧fer

transfer (definite accusative transferi, plural transferler)

1. transfer

• “transfer”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu