transfer
/tɹænsˈfɚ/ verb B1- To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another. · to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion
- To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another. · to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- 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
- To be or become transferred.
- To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else. · The title to land is transferred by deed.
- 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.
- To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
Plural transfer · He/she/it transfers · Past transferred · Past participle transferred · -ing form transferring
Verb forms
- Base form
- transfer
- He/she/it
- transfers
- Past
- transferred
- Past participle
- transferred
- -ing form
- transferring
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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de Saint-Méran; “and where is it decided to transfer him?”
At the expiration of a year the governor was transferred; he had obtained charge of the fortress at Ham.
In the year 1811 I was transferred to Piedmont in France.
Dantès, struck with the beauty and capability of the little vessel, applied to its owner to transfer it to him, offering sixty thousand francs, upon condition that he should be allowed to take immediate possession.
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