Definition of Transfer

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Transfer

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.

To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.

The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

That which is transferred.

A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.

A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.

A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

A pathological process by virtue of 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.

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Transfer Quotations

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
Jack Kevorkian

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Jean Cocteau

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
Joe Rogan

We don't have major limits in the transfer market.
David Gill

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.
Jay Inslee

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
Ibrahim Rugova

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
Harold H. Greene

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.
Jon Postel

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
William Kingdon Clifford

Transfer Translations

transfer in Afrikaans is oorsteek, oorskry, verplaas
transfer in Dutch is opnemen, afboeken
transfer in Italian is trasferire, imbarazzato, cessione, trasportare
transfer in Latin is transfero transtuli translatum
transfer in Spanish is editar, atravesar, trasferencia, transferencia

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