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# transfer

«transfer» in Mova's school dictionary: **To move someone or something from one place, person or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (transfer, transfers, transferred, transferring); noun (a transfer, transfers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To move someone or something from one place, person or group to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#m1)

2) (noun) A move from one place, school, team or vehicle to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#m2)

3) To send money from one account to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#m3)

4) (noun, UK) A picture you can stick or press onto something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths problems: "she transfers 5 marbles to her brother" means she gives them, so she has 5 fewer and he has 5 more. In sport, footballers transfer between clubs. In science, heat transfers from hot to cold. Phrases: transfer to, transfer from, bank transfer, heat transfer.

### examples

- Transfer 5 marbles from the red bag to the blue bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#x1)
- She transferred to a new school last term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#x2)
- Heat transfers from the hot drink to your hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#x3)
- Dad made a bank transfer to pay the bill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#x4)
- The striker's transfer cost a lot of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#x5)
- We had to transfer to another bus in town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#x6)
- I stuck a dinosaur transfer on my arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#x7)
- More than twelve centuries ago, Hiouen-Thsang transferred the following story from India to China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/#x8)

### note

Doubles the r: transferred, transferring. Stress: verb "trans-FER", noun "TRANS-fer". Maths trap: a transfer does not change the total; one side loses what the other gains.

### In the corpora

- ["Population transfer" means forcing people out of their homes and moving them elsewhere.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transfer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transfer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.