transfer

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Synonyms: transfur, tranner, transie, transfix, transhet, transfuser, transsex, transferor, transex, transue, transfan

Antonyms: transfur, tranner, transie, transfix, transhet, transfuser, transsex, transferor, transex, transue, transfan

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[move]] or [[pass]] from one place, person or thing to another.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[convey]] the [[impression]] of (something) from one [[surface]] to another.
3. {{senseid|en|massransit}} {{lb|en|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]].
4. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To be or become transferred.
5. {{lb|en|transitive|legal}} To [[arrange]] for something to [[belong]] to or be [[official]]ly [[control]]led by somebody else.
6. {{lb|en|transitive|linguistics}} To 'carry' or apply anything (a concept, a name...) from one type of thing to a different type of thing.
7. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To move from a [[wheelchair]] to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.

Noun

1. {{lb|en|uncountable}} The act of [[convey]]ing or [[remove|removing]] something from one place, person or thing to another.
2. {{lb|en|countable}} An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a [[transferal]].
3. {{lb|en|countable|transport}} An act of [[exit]]ing one [[mass transit]] [[vehicle]] and [[board]]ing another (typically one belonging to a different [[line]] or [[mode]] of transportation) to continue a [[journey]].
4. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|genetics}} The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
9. {{lb|en|bridge}} A [[conventional]] [[bid]] which requests partner to bid the next available [[suit]].
10. {{lb|en|sports}} A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
11. {{lb|en|US|Canada|varsity sports}} {{ellipsis of|en|transfer student}}.
12. {{lb|en|countable}} Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.

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