# transfer

Pronunciation: US say "trans-FUR" /tɹænsˈfɚ/; UK say "trahns-FUR" /tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/

## Verb

1. To move someone or something to a different place, person, group, or job, or to make such a move yourself, as when a worker transfers to another branch.
   - Simple: To move something or someone to a different place, person, or group, or to move there yourself.
   - _Please transfer the files to the new computer before noon._
   - _She transferred the money into her savings account._
3. To arrange a change in who owns something or has official control of it.
   - Simple: To legally pass ownership or official control of something to someone else.
   - _He transferred the title of the property to his business partner._
   - _The owners agreed to transfer all shares to the new investor._
6. To leave one bus, train, or other transit vehicle and board another to continue a journey.
   - Simple: To get off one bus or train and onto another to continue your trip.
   - _Passengers transfer at the central station to reach the airport._
   - _She transferred from the subway to a streetcar downtown._
9. To copy or move an image or design from one surface onto another.
   - Simple: To copy or move a picture or design from one surface onto another.
   - _The artist transferred the sketch onto the canvas using carbon paper._
   - _Heat helps you transfer the design onto a cotton shirt._
11. To move between a wheelchair and another stable seating surface, either on one's own or with help.
   - Simple: To move between a wheelchair and another seat or surface.
   - _After months of practice, she could transfer to the car seat unassisted._
   - _The therapist watched closely as the patient transferred from the mat to the chair._

## Noun

Pronunciation: US say "TRANS-fur" /ˈtɹæns.fɚ/; UK say "TRAHNS-fur" /ˈtɹɑːns.fɜː/

2. The act or an instance of moving something from one place, person, or thing to another.
   - Simple: Moving something, or one time something is moved, from one place or person to another.
   - _The transfer of authority happened smoothly after the election._
   - _Successful transfer of skills from training to the job takes practice._
4. A person who has moved, or been moved, from one team, school, military unit, or similar group to another.
   - Simple: A person who has moved from one team, school, or group to another.
   - _The new transfer scored twice on his debut for the club._
   - _Several transfers struggled to adjust to the faster pace of the league._
5. An act of leaving one transit vehicle and boarding another to continue a journey.
   - Simple: A time when you get off one bus or train and onto another to keep going.
   - _The route requires a transfer at the downtown hub._
   - _Two transfers made the commute longer than expected._
7. A paper slip given to a rider, usually on a bus, that allows boarding another vehicle to finish the same journey without paying the full fare again.
   - Simple: A paper ticket from a bus that lets you ride another bus or train to finish your trip, often free.
   - _He asked the driver for a transfer before getting off at the corner._
   - _Riders must show a valid transfer when boarding the connecting route._
8. A printed design that is pressed or ironed from one surface onto another.
   - Simple: A picture or design that you press from one surface onto another.
   - _He pressed a vintage transfer onto the model car's body._
   - _The shop sells iron-on transfers for custom shirts._
10. A process in which genetic material leaves one cell and enters another.
   - Simple: The movement of genetic material from one cell to another.
   - _Horizontal transfer of genetic material allows bacteria to share genes across species._
   - _Researchers studied the transfer of mitochondrial DNA from one cell to the next._
12. A single instance of moving a person with limited mobility from one stable surface to another, done independently or with assistance.
   - Simple: One move from one seat or surface to another by someone who has trouble moving, done alone or with help.
   - _A safe transfer from wheelchair to bath requires careful planning._
   - _Staff are trained to perform each transfer without straining their backs._

## Other meanings

- (noun) In bridge, a conventional bid that asks one's partner to bid the next higher suit.
- (noun) A process in which a disease condition affecting one side of the body disappears there and then emerges in the matching region on the opposite side.

## Origin

From Latin trānsferō ("I bear across"). It is a distant doublet of translate, and is related to words such as collate, confer, delate, defer, prelate, and prefer.

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