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transfer
The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 8
- Starts with
- T
- Ends with
- R
- Contains
- RANSFE
- Scrabble score
- 11
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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noun
The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
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.
The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
verb
To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
“to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion”
To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
“to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone”
To be or become transferred.
To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
“The title to land is transferred by deed.”
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Example Sentences
to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion
to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
The title to land is transferred by deed.
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