transfer

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 50.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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. verb To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

   to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone

3. verb 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. verb To be or become transferred.
5. verb To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

   The title to land is transferred by deed.

6. verb To 'carry' or apply anything (a concept, a name...) from one type of thing to a different type of thing.

   The ancient Romans named the planet Mars by transferring that name from a deity of their pantheon to the planet appearing in the night sky.

7. verb To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
8. noun The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

Similar words

transference transport transpose change transferral reassign remove transmit conveyance generalization

Often followed by

of to the from function and is in coefficient

Word family

transferabilities transferability transferable transferal transferals transference transferrable transferred transferrer transferrers