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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Transfer

Trans-fér', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. TRANSFERRED; p. pr. & vb. n. TRANSFERRING.] [Lat. transferre, from trans, across, over, and ferre, to bear; Fr. transférer, Sp. transferir, trasferir, It. transferire, trasferire. Cf. TRANSLATE.]

  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.
  2. To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to sell; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.
  3. To remove from one substance to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. Tomlinson.

Syn.—To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.

Trāns'fer, n.

noun

n. 1. The act of transferring, or of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.

Sense 2. The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, either by sale, by gift, or otherwise.

I shall here only consider it as a transfer of property. Burke.

Sense 3. That which is transferred; as, (a.) A picture removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another. Fairholt. (b.) (Mil.) A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.