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say it: tran-SFUR
transfer is a verb and noun meaning "transfer somebody to a different position or location of work". It carries 15 recorded senses.
lift and reset in another soil or situation
“Transplant the young rice plants”
cause to change ownership
“I transferred my stock holdings to my children”
shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
“He removed his children to the countryside”
“Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city”
“remove a case to another court”
transfer from one place or period to another
“The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America”
the act of moving something from one location to another
someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
“the best student was a transfer from LSU”
the act of transfering something from one form to another
“the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise”
a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
transferring ownership
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transfer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.