transfer

Etymology

From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”).

verb

1. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
   to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion
2. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
   to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
3. (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.
   transfer to the Blue Line
4. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
5. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
   The title to land is transferred by deed.

noun

1. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
2. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
   A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone. 2012-12-01, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)
3. (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
   Free transfers can be made between the Red and Orange Lines by walking from one of the station's platforms to another; in addition, riders using a fare card also get free transfers between bus and subway at the station.
4. (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. (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. (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. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
9. (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
10. (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
11. (US, Canada, varsity sports) Short for transfer student.