transfers
Meaning of transfers
verb, 3rd person present
- move from one place to another.
he intends to transfer the fund's assets to the Treasury
I went to sleep on the couch before transferring to my bedroom later in the night
- change to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey.
passengers have to transfer at Heathrow for onward international flights
- make over the possession of (property, a right, or a responsibility) to another.
we will transfer full planning responsibility to local authorities
- change (the sense of a word or phrase) by extension or metaphor.
between Latin and English, the sense was transferred from the inhabitants to the place
a transferred use of the Old English noun
- an act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.
a transfer of wealth to the EU's poorer nations
she asked her boss for a transfer to the city
a patient had died after transfer from the County Hospital to St Peter's
- a small coloured picture or design on paper, which can be transferred to another surface by being pressed or heated.
T-shirts with iron-on transfers
- an act of changing to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey.
bus transfers between the airport and the city centre cost about £11
late Middle English (as a verb): from French transférer or Latin transferre, from trans- ‘across’ + ferre ‘to bear’. The earliest use of the noun (late 17th century) was as a legal term in the sense ‘conveyance of property’.
Information about transfers
- The singular form of transfers is: transfer.
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Hyphenation of transfers
trans-fers
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- transfers is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
transfers synonyms
Meaning change the place, position, or state of:
Meaning transport or carry to a place:
Meaning move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance:
Meaning change one's home or place of residence by moving to (another place):
Meaning carry or bring with one; convey:
Meaning support and move (someone or something) from one place to another:
Meaning go for and then bring back (someone or something) for someone:
Meaning transport by air:
Meaning cause (someone or something) to come to a place:
Meaning carry the weight of; support:
Meaning transmit (a form of energy such as heat or electricity) by conduction:
Meaning cause to go or be taken to a particular destination; arrange for the delivery of, especially by post:
Meaning take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship:
Meaning receive and pass on (information or a message):
Meaning make (someone or something) different; alter or modify:
Meaning move to a new place and establish one's home or business there:
Meaning settle or cause to settle in a different place:
Meaning move or transfer (someone or something) to another place or situation:
Meaning pull (something, especially a tree or plant) out of the ground:
Meaning cause (something) to pass on from one person or place to another:
Meaning send (goods) by a public carrier:
Meaning perpetrate or carry out (a mistake, crime, or immoral act):
Meaning transfer or delegate (power) to a lower level, especially from central government to local or regional administration:
Meaning transfer (legal rights or liabilities):
Meaning give up (power or territory):
Meaning give up or hand over (a person, right, or possession), typically on compulsion or demand:
Meaning voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up:
Meaning entrust (a task or responsibility) to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself:
Meaning assign the responsibility for doing something to (someone):
Meaning agree to give or allow (something requested) to:
Meaning pass (a message) to (someone):
Meaning direct the attention of someone to:
Meaning cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another:
Meaning cause to pass along or through a specified route or medium:
Meaning direct (something) to a new or different place or purpose:
Meaning an act of moving:
Meaning in motion:
Meaning changing, especially unpredictably:
Meaning an act or instance of handing something over:
Meaning the action of moving to a new place and establishing one's home or business there:
Meaning place in a different position; adjust or alter the position of:
Meaning the action of assigning or directing something to a new or different place or purpose:
Meaning the action or process of transporting or carrying someone or something from one place to another:
Meaning the action of transferring someone or something:
Meaning the action of transferring something or the process of being transferred:
Meaning the action of taking away or abolishing something unwanted:
Meaning a change from one system or situation to another:
Meaning an act of changing to or adopting one thing in place of another:
Meaning the process of changing or causing something to change from one form to another:
transfers antonyms
Meaning continue to have (something); keep possession of:
Words that rhyme with transfers
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