transfer

Signification

Verb

1. To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
2. To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
3. To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
4. To be or become transferred.
5. To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
6. To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.

Noun

1. The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
2. An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
3. An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
4. A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
5. A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
6. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
7. 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.
8. The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
9. A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
10. A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
11. Short for transfer student.
12. Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/

Étymologie

From Latin trānsferō (“I bear across”).

Phrases

Horizontal transfer is the movement of technologies from one area to another .

Le transfert horizontal est le mouvement des technologies d'une zone à l'autre.