to transfer
- verb
- /ˈtrænsfɜr/
- At Dallas, the passengers were transferred to the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas line.
- passengers transfer between lines
- transfer to line 4
Examples
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Make sure to transfer your luggage to the new flight before it departs.
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After getting off the train, I had to transfer to a bus to reach my final destination.
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You all need to get out and transfer to the next 2.
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I'll transfer to customer service.
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Many staff members had left for other jobs or transferred to other units.
Academic text (2011) -
Just got off the subway and now I have to transfer to a bus and this will be my second time riding the bus.
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Second, the barriers to transferring out of community college must be high.
Academic text (2011) -
Accreditation can help a student transfer academic credits from one U.S. institution to another.
Academic text (1990) -
You're transferring to Gran Nacional for Mexico City and Qantas for Sydney.
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We need to transfer to a different line at the next station to continue our journey.
Synonyms
Go somewhere by a particular vehicle or route
To change one thing or person for another
To move from one bus or train to another to continue a journey
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
Money the government gives people who need help without goods or services
- Specialized
An organization that keeps records of a company's stock owners and handles transfers and cancellations of stock certificates
Paper with a special coating that lets you move a design onto another surface often using heat
- Specialized
A small molecule in a cell that carries amino acids to ribosomes to make proteins
- Specialized
A way to share files over a network that lets people download without a password
- Archaic
A fast digital way to send small pieces of data that are the same size, such as voice and video
- Specialized
A standard way for computers to send files to each other over the internet
- Specialized
Using what one trained model learned to help another model perform better
- Texting
A set of rules that lets browsers get web pages from servers
- Formal
Using skills or knowledge learned in one place in another similar situation
- Specialized
A lab method for making clones by moving a body cell's center into an egg cell without one
How Direct
Surface Forms
Morphology
transfer = trans + fer
Formed from Latin combining elements trans- + -fer (carry); these are not standalone, productive English morphemes, so a B1 learner cannot reliably infer the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
The word transfer comes from the Latin parts trans- 'across' and ferre 'to carry', and it is like ferry, which carries people across water. To transfer trains or buses is to 'carry' your trip 'across' to another vehicle.