Transferring Meaning and Definition

Word: Transferring

How to pronounce: trænsˈfɜːrɪŋ

Verb

Definitions:

1. Move from one place to another.

Example sentences: "He intends to transfer the fund's assets to the Treasury"

2. Change to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey.

Example sentences: "Passengers have to transfer at Heathrow for onward international flights"

3. Make over the possession of (property, a right, or a responsibility) to another.

Example sentences: "We will transfer full planning responsibility to local authorities"

4. Change (the sense of a word or phrase) by extension or metaphor.

Example sentences: "Between Latin and English, the sense was transferred from the inhabitants to the place"

Noun

Definitions:

1. An act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.

Example sentences: "A transfer of wealth to the EU's poorer nations"

2. A small coloured picture or design on paper, which can be transferred to another surface by being pressed or heated.

Example sentences: "T-shirts with iron-on transfers"

3. An act of changing to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey.

Example sentences: "Bus transfers between the airport and the city centre cost about £11"

Synonyms:

transmission

Antonyms:

take

select

choose

take up

Derivations:

transfer

transferred

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Transferring in Other Languages...

Spanish: Transferir

German: übertragen

French: Transférer

Italian: Trasferire

Turkish: Aktarma