transfer
/tɹænsˈfɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
verb
To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
Transitive verb
verb
To 'carry' or apply anything (a concept, a name...) from one type of thing to a different type of thing.
Transitive verb
verb
To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion"
- "to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone"
- "transfer to the Blue Line"
- "The title to land is transferred by deed."
- "The ancient Romans named the planet Mars by transferring that name from a deity of their pantheon to the planet appearing in the night sky."
- "A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin trānsferōder. English transfer From Latin trānsferō (“to bear across”). Distant doublet of translate. See also collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰer-, trānsferō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹænsˈfɚ/
- British English: /tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/
Usage
Inflected Forms
transfers (present, singular)
transferring (participle, present)
transferred (participle, past)
transferred (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
transferred (first person, past)
transferrest (archaic, present)
transferred (past, second person)
transferredst (archaic, past)
transferreth (archaic, present)
transferred (past, singular)