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English

Etymology

From Latin tr?nsfer? (“I bear across”).

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???ns?f??/, /t?ænz?f??/
  • (US) enPR: tr?nsfûr?, IPA^(key): /t?æns?f?/, /?t?ænsf?/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???nsf??/, /?t?ænzf??/
  • (US) enPR: 'tr?nsfûr, IPA^(key): /?t?ænsf?/

Verb

transfer (third-person singular simple present transfers, present participle transferring, simple past and past participle transferred)

1. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

   to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion

2. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

   to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone

3. (transport) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

4. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
5. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

   The title to land is transferred by deed.

Synonyms

• (move or pass from one place/person/thing to another): carry over, move, onpass
• (convey impression of from one surface to another): copy, transpose
• (to be or become transferred):

Derived terms

• transferee
• transferor

Translations

Noun

transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)

1. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
2. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
3. (transport) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

4. (countable) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus, allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
5. (countable) 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. (medicine) 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. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
9. (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
10. (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.

Usage notes

• In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition, which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.

Synonyms

• (act): transferal, transference
• (instance): transferal
• (college sports): transfer student

Related terms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

transfer m or n (plural transfers, diminutive transfertje n)

1. transfer

Synonyms

• overdracht

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Noun

transfer m (invariable)

1. transport
2. transfer (tourist, e.g. airport to hotel)

Latin

Verb

tr?nsfer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tr?nsfer?

Romanian

Etymology

From French transfert.

Noun

transfer n (plural transferuri)

1. transfer

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?nsfe?r/
• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

trànsf?r m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. transfer
2. transport

Declension

Spanish

Noun

transfer m (plural transferes)

1. transfer (between transport)

Turkish

Etymology

From French transfert

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

transfer (definite accusative transferi, plural transferler)

1. transfer

Declension

References

• transfer in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispensare (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?p?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns
• Hyphenation: dis?pense

Verb

dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)

1. To issue, distribute, or give out.
   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:

     The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.

2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

   to dispense justice

   • 1662, John Dryden, To the Lord Chancellor Hyde

     While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.

3. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

   The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.

   An optician can dispense spectacles.

4. (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
   • 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet

     He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
   • His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed

Derived terms

• dispensary
• dispenser
• dispense with

Translations

Noun

dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)

1. (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
2. (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.

Translations

Derived terms

• dispensable
• dispensation
• dispensative
• dispensatory

Related terms

• dispend

Further reading

• dispense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dispense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• dispense at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• despines, piedness

French

Etymology

Deverbal of dispenser.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

dispense f (plural dispenses)

1. dispensation

Verb

dispense

1. first-person singular present indicative of dispenser
2. third-person singular present indicative of dispenser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
5. second-person singular imperative of dispenser

Further reading

• “dispense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pendisse

Italian

Noun

dispense f

1. plural of dispensa

Verb

dispense

1. third-person singular past historic of dispegnere

Anagrams

• pendessi

Portuguese

Verb

dispense

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
3. first-person singular imperative of dispensar
4. third-person singular imperative of dispensar

Spanish

Verb

dispense

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispensar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dispensar.