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transfer(1) (iou)



transfer noun. L17.
[from the verb.]
Law. Conveyance of property, esp. of stocks or shares, from one person to another. L17.
Ina Taylor Arranging the transfer of some of his business assets to his son.
gen. The action of transferring or fact of being transferred; conveyance or removal from one place, person, etc., to another. Also spec., the removal of a worker, player, etc. from one location, sphere, club, etc., to another; a change of place of employment within an organization. L18.
Atlantic An automatic transfer from junior high to high school. Julia Hamilton I've applied for a transfer to go out as an interpreter. Independent Rangers will expect a fee for the transfer of their most accomplished striker.
b. Nautical. The distance moved at right angles to the direction of travel during tacking. L19.
c. Psychology. The carrying over of the effects of training or practice from the learning of one function to help or hinder the learning of another. Also more fully transfer of practice, transfer of training. E20.
A person who or thing which is or has been transferred; spec. a design etc. conveyed or to be conveyed from one surface to another, esp. a small usu. coloured picture or design on paper or plastic film, which is transferable to another surface. M19.
Which? The..transfer had to be stuck on with water. Opera Now CD transfers of recordings originally released in the 1970s.
A means or place of transfer; spec. a change between lines or routes on a transport service. Also, a ferry service; a ticket entitling a passenger to make such a change. Chiefly N. Amer. L19.
Phrases: CERTIFIED transfer. negative transfer: see NEGATIVE adjective. positive transfer: see POSITIVE adjective. transfer of practice, transfer of training: see sense 2c above.
Comb.: transfer-book a register of transfers of property, shares, etc.; transfer case (a) a case in(to) which materials are transferred; (b) Mechanics (the housing of) a mechanism for dividing the power between two or more driving axles of a motor vehicle; transfer company US a company conveying passengers or luggage between stations; transfer factor Immunology a substance released by antigen-sensitized lymphocytes and capable of transferring the response of delayed hypersensitivity to a non-sensitized cell or individual into which it is introduced; transfer fee (a) that charged by a joint-stock company for registering a transfer; (b) (Sport, esp. Football) a sum of money paid by one club to another in exchange for the transfer of a professional player; transfer function (a) Math. a mathematical function relating the output or response of something to the input or stimulus; (b) Electronics a ratio of two quantities measured simultaneously at two different points of a circuit or device; transfer ink ink used for writing or drawing on lithographic transfer paper or for taking prints for transferring to lithographic stone; transfer line Engineering a line of workstations along which a part is automatically conveyed for a sequence of automatic machining operations; transfer list a list of footballers available for transfer; transfer machine Engineering a composite machine that performs a series of operations without the intervention of the operator; transfer mould the mould cavity in transfer moulding; transfer-mould verb trans. make by transfer moulding; transfer moulding a moulding process used chiefly for thermosetting plastics in which the material is softened and then forced into a closed mould cavity where it sets; transfer orbit Astronautics an orbit that touches two given orbits and so provides a trajectory by which a spacecraft can pass from one orbit to the other; transfer-paper specially coated paper used for lithographic writing or drawing, or for taking impressions to be transferred to lithographic stone; transfer payment Economics a payment made or income received in which no goods or services are being paid for, such as a benefit payment or subsidy; transfer-printed adjective (esp. of ceramics) having a ready-made design printed on as a transfer during manufacture; transfer RNA Biology RNA consisting of folded molecules which transport amino acids from the cytoplasm of a cell to a ribosome and bind to an mRNA strand, so ordering the assembly of a polypeptide or protein; abbreviation tRNA.