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transfer(verb)/trænsˈfɜː(r)/ /trænsˈfɜːr/Verb Forms- to move from one place to another; to move something/somebody from one place to another
- The film studio is transferring to Hollywood.
- If I spend a semester in Madrid, will my credits transfer?
- The system only allows air to go one way, preventing air from transferring from one tire to another.
- How can I transfer money from my bank account to his?
- The patient was transferred to another hospital.
- I couldn't transfer all my credits from junior college.
- Assets can be transferred overseas.
- She transferred the sauce into a china jug.
- The honeybee transfers pollen between flowers.
- Customers still can't easily transfer money between accounts.
- to move from one job, school, situation, etc. to another; to arrange for somebody to move
- Children usually transfer to secondary school at 11 or 12.
- This is her first season in the Ohio State team after transferring from Tennessee.
- Students can transfer from a community college to a university.
- He transferred to UCLA after his freshman year.
- Ten employees are being transferred from the sales department.
- His superiors transferred him to easier assignments.
- She was promoted and transferred from the department of law to the Institute of Legal Studies.
- 98 percent of our patients are admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours.
- to change to a different vehicle during a journey; to arrange for somebody to change to a different vehicle during a journey
- It was a relief, after transferring from ship to ship, to just sit and relax.
- I transferred at Bahrain for a flight to Singapore.
- Passengers are transferred from the airport to the hotel by taxi.
- to copy information, music, an idea, etc. from one method of recording or presenting it to another; to be recorded or presented in a different way
- You can transfer data to a memory stick in a few seconds.
- Data is easily transferred electronically.
- You can transfer songs from your computer to a phone.
- The novel does not transfer well to the movies.
- An audio file should transfer in a matter of minutes.
- if you transfer a feeling, a disease, or power, etc. from one person to another, the second person has it, often instead of the first
- Joe had already transferred his affections from Lisa to Cleo.
- I decided to transfer my loyalty to my local team.
- This disease is sometimes transferred from mother to baby (= so that the baby has it as well as the mother).
Extra Examples- Can the disease be transferred across species?
- Skills cannot be transferred directly from a trainer to a trainee.
- to officially arrange for something to belong to somebody else or for somebody else to control something
SYNONYM sign over
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sign-over - He transferred the property to his son.
- Sovereignty was formally transferred on December 27.
- to move, or to move somebody, to a different sports team, especially a professional football (soccer) team
- He transferred to Everton for £60 million.
- He was transferred from Spurs to Arsenal for a huge fee.
- to send a phone call that you have received to another phone number
- I'll just transfer you to customer service.
- Customers are able to transfer calls from their landline to their mobile.
Word Origin- late Middle English (as a verb): from French transférer or Latin transferre, from trans- ‘across’ + ferre ‘to bear’. The earliest use of the noun (late 17th cent.) was as a legal term in the sense ‘conveyance of property’.
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