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Webster 1913 Edition


Transfer

Trans-fer′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Transferred
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Transferring
.]
[L.
transferre
;
trans
across, over +
ferre
to bear: cf. F.
transférer
. See
Bear
to carry.]
1.
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
.
2.
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
.
3.
To remove from one substance or surface to another;
as, to
transfer
drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
.
Tomlinson.
Syn. – To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.

Trans′fer

,
Noun.
1.
The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
2.
(Law)
The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
I shall here only consider it as a
transfer
of property.
Burke.
3.
That which is transferred.
Specifically: –
(a)
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.
Fairholt.
(b)
A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
(c)
(Mil.)
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
4.
(Med.)
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.
Transfer day
,
one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o’clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.
Bithell.
Transfer office
,
an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made.
Transfer paper
,
a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions.
Transfer table
.
(Railroad)
Same as
Traverse table
. See under
Traverse
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Transfer

TRANSFER'

,
Verb.
T.
[L. transfero; trans and fero, to carry.]
1.
To convey from one place or person to another; to transport or remove to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another. The seat of government was transferred from New York to Albany. We say, a war is transferred from France to Germany. Pain or the seat of disease in the body, is often transferred from one part to another.
2.
To make over; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to sell; to give. The title to land is transferred by deed. The property of a bill of exchange may be transferred by indorsement. Stocks are transferred by assignment, or entering the same under the name of the purchaser in the proper books.

Definition 2024


Transfer

Transfer

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Noun

Transfer m (genitive Transfers, plural Transfers)

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