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▪ I. transfer, n.|ˈtrɑːnsfə(r), ˈtræns-, -nz-|
[f. transfer v.]
1. Law. Conveyance from one person to another of property, spec. of shares or stock.
1674Court Bks. Roy. Afr. Co. (P.R.O.), [Form of acceptance] I do accept of ― his transfer of {pstlg}― abovesaid the day and year abovewritten. 1693Act 5 Will. & Mary c. 7. §47 The Fee for examining..a Tickett or Tally in order to make a true Assignement or Transfer..shall..be One penny. 1694Bank of Eng. Charter 27 July, There shall be constantly kept..a Register, or Book or Books, wherein all Assignments and Transfers shall be entered. 1727Swift What passed in Lond. Wks. 1755 III. i. 189 All the Thursday morning was taken up in private transfers. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. i. 9 The reciprocal transfer of property by sale, grant, or conveyance. 1788Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 367 Observations on the transfer of our domestic debt to foreigners. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. i. 5 The office in which are effected the transfers of the Company's stock and annuities. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. vii. (1852) 204 The lowest case of legal transfer is that of a debt.
2. a. gen. The act of transferring or fact of being transferred; conveyance or removal from one place, person, etc. to another; transference; transmission.
1785Burke Corr. (1844) III. 33 To remonstrate against the transfer of an immense sum of public money from the national service. 1811J. Adams Wks. (1856) X. 3, I wait with patience for a transfer to another scene. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. iii, An amply sufficient cause for the transfer of his allegiance. 1870Jevons Elem. Logic iv. 32 Equivocal words have become so by a transfer of meaning. 1877Knight Dict. Mech. 1334/2 The third lithographic method is by transfer... The work is not drawn or engraved upon the stone direct, but is placed there in a completed condition from some source furnishing it. 1907Trans. Devon. Assoc. 50 The transfer of the county See to Exeter.
b. Naut. In tacking: The distance traversed at right angles to the line of advance.
1889Cent. Dict. s.v. Advance 12, In naval tactics, the distance made by a ship under way, in the direction of her course, after the helm has been put to one side and kept there; opposed to transfer, the distance made at right angles to the original course.
c. Psychol. (More fully transfer of practice, training.) The carrying over of the effects of training or practice from the learning of one function to the learning of another. Cf. negative transfer s.v. negative a. 8 c; positive transfer s.v. positive a. 8 d.
1901Thorndike & Woodworth in Psychol. Rev. VIII. 386 There is no inner necessity for improvement of one function to improve others closely similar to it, due to a subtle transfer of practice effect. 1924Psychol. Rev. XXXI. 157 There is no evidence for such transfer of training among rats. 1948E. R. Hilgard Theories of Learning ii. 29 The theory proposes that transfer depends upon the presence of identical elements in the original learning and in the new learning which it facilitates. 1970Halstead & Rucker in W. Byrne Molecular Approaches to Learning & Memory 6 (heading) Behavioral modification, née transfer of training.
d. The transference of a worker or player from one location, sphere, sports club, etc., to another; a change of place of employment within an organization.
1895Football News (Nottingham) 2 Nov. 1/6 It is stated that the Forest have offered {pstlg}70 for Bruce's transfer. 1923J. D. Hackett Labor Terms in Management Engineering May, Transfer, the shifting of a worker from one occupation to another. 1937[see dotted ppl. a. 1 c]. 1970Times 13 Oct. 15/3 Trevor Gould..has been given a free transfer by Coventry City. 1973J. Thomson Death Cap xiii. 176 ‘I've been thinking again about putting in for a transfer,’ Holbrook said... Finch..wished now that he could have satisfied the Sergeant over the question of his transfer... A good local policeman meant a lot to a small community.
3. A thing or a person that is transferred; spec. writing, drawing, or a design, conveyed from one surface to another in lithography, photography, and the like.
1839Trans. Royal Soc. IV. 133 Twenty-three specimens of photographs, made by Sir John Herschel, accompany this paper..copies of engravings and drawings, some reverse, or first transfers; and others second transfers or re-reversed pictures. 1864Webster, Transfer..a soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another. 1877Knight Dict. Mech., Transfer, an impression taken on paper, cloth, etc., and then laid upon an object and caused to adhere thereto by pressure. 1880Print. Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 38 A transfer paper is prepared.., on which the transfer to be preserved is pulled. 1883Hardwich's Photogr. Chem. 311 If a mat surface be desired, the transfer should be stripped from the glass before it is quite dry. 1929Daily Express 7 Nov. 12/4 The prizes will hardly be glittering enough to attract the best ‘transfers’. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 35/6 The Mustangs have six experienced transfers who must be fitted in. 1979Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. c 9/1 The return of 33 lettermen—five senior-college transfers, most of whom will likely start—and 10 junior-college transfers.
4. A means or place of transfer. Chiefly U.S. spec.
a. U.S. Post Office. A telegraphic money-order.
b. On a railway, etc.:
(a) A place at which trains or cars are transferred to a ferry for water transport; also, a ferry by which trains or cars are transported. (b) A siding connecting tracks at a crossing or on different levels (Webster 1911). (c) A transfer-ticket (Cent. Dict.). (d) The conveyance of passengers and luggage from one railway station to another, when these are not contiguous; hence transfer-company, a company which undertakes such conveyance between stations.
1883I. M. Rittenhouse Maud (1939) 187 The sun was just coming up as we crossed the river on the transfer. 1892S. Hale Let. 28 Apr. (1919) 269, I mounted a cable, took a transfer, and went..out into the suburbs. 1903A. B. Hart Actual Govt. 207 In most cities there is a system of free transfers, so that, starting from one suburb, one may often travel for a single fare 5, 10, or 15 miles to another suburb.
c. Archery. A sheet to which all scores are transferred from the target-papers.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl. s.v., The transfers are the official record from which the prize-list is made up.
5. attrib. and Comb., as transfer agent, transfer-boat, transfer-clerk, transfer-company (4 b), transfer-deed, transfer-department, transfer-form, transfer list, transfer market, transfer office, transfer payment, transfer price, transfer pricing, transfer-process, transfer rate; transfer-book, a register of transfers of property, esp. that of its shares or stock, kept by a joint-stock company; transfer case, (a) a case in(to) which materials are transferred; (b) Mech., (the housing of) a mechanism for dividing the power between a number of axles in a motor vehicle with two or more driving axles; transfer chamber, the chamber in which the material is initially heated in transfer moulding; transfer-day, at the Bank of England, a day for the register of transfers of bank-stock; transfer effect(s), the result(s) of transfer of training (see sense 2 c above); transfer-elevator, a crane for transferring cargo from one vessel to another; transfer factor Immunol., 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) Assoc. Football, a sum of money paid by one club to another for the transfer of the services of a professional player; transfer function, a mathematical function relating the output or response of anything to the input or stimulus; also transf.; transfer-gilding, in ceramics, transfer of a pattern in gold, as from paper to unglazed ware; transfer-ink, ink used in lithography; transfer-jar, a jar used in the collection of gases over liquid; transfer-lathe: see quot.; transfer line Engin., a line of work-stations along which a part is automatically conveyed to be subjected to a sequence of automatic machining operations; transfer-lithography: see sense 3; transfer machine Engin., a composite machine that performs a series of operations without the intervention of the operator; transfer mould n., the mould cavity in transfer moulding; also (with hyphen) as v. trans., to make by means of transfer moulding; transfer moulding, a moulding process used chiefly for thermosetting plastics in which the material is softened in a heated chamber and then forced by a plunger into an adjacent closed, heated mould cavity where it sets; transfer orbit Astronautics, an orbit that touches two given orbits and therefore provides a trajectory by which a spacecraft can pass from one of them to the other; transfer-paper, paper used in making transfers in lithography and other processes; transfer pot = transfer chamber above; transfer-press, in engraving, a transferring machine; transfer-printing, a process by which designs are printed on fictile and other ware (so transfer-printed a.); also printing by means of lithography; transfer RNA Molecular Biol., RNA that collects particular amino-acids in the cytoplasm of a cell and conveys them to a ribosome, where they are assembled to form part of a polypeptide or protein molecule; transfer station, a point at which transfer-tickets are given, and passengers transferred from one car to another (Cent. Dict. Suppl.); transfer-table (U.S.), a railway traverse-table; transfer-ticket, a ticket entitling a passenger to change from a conveyance to one on another line or route without re-booking or further payment; a through ticket; transfer-work, designs made by transferring or transfer-printing.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 430 All certificates [shall] be signed by both the *transfer agent and register. 1978A. Maling Lucky Devil xix. 103 You are the transfer agent for Lucky Devil Minerals.
1882Uncle Rufus & Ma 52 We ferried over in a *transfer boat. 1888Daily News 10 Dec. 6/8 The transfer boat Maryland was conveying a section of a train from Washington to Boston across the Haarlem River, at midnight.
1694J. Houghton Collect. Improv. Husb. & Trade V. No. 102 (13 July) The Seller goes to the Clerk of the Company..appointed to keep a Book of Alienations, called a *Transferr Book, and there he transferrs the Shares he has sold to the Buyer. 1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3737/4 The Transfer Books of the Bank will be shut up from Monday the 15th Instant to Friday the 10th of October next, in order to a Dividend. 1746Fielding True Patriot No. 10 The cash, transfer books, &c. removed to the tower, from the Bank.
1923H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 77 *Transfer Case, a Binding Case or file for receiving the matter transferred periodically from the live file or loose leaf book. 1949I. Frazee et al. Automotive Fundamentals vi. 378 The transfer case is located behind the transmission. 1970Southerly XXX. 216 Gear box and transfer case and differentials growled a deep throated work song with power to spare. 1983Judge of Election Handbk. (Board of Election Comm., Chicago) 11/1 Open the transfer case and check that the official ballot cards are for the proper precinct.
1946DuBois & Pribble Plastics Mold Engin. 353 It is common practice to standardize on the size and design of the *transfer chamber and plunger used with hand molds. 1977Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 29/5 There has been at least one case of a transfer chamber exploding.
1834[S. Smith] Lett. J. Downing xxvi. (1835) 170 What the Treasury calls contingent drafts, and *transfer checks, and Treasury warrants.
1899Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 7/1 It is nothing..for a *transfer clerk to wait for forty-five minutes at the Associated office.
1879H. T. Williams Pacific Tourist 262/1 The *Transfer Company will carry baggage alone for 50 cents. 1909E. Banks Myst. Fras. Farrington 159 These trunks had been delivered by a responsible Transfer Company's waggon.
1771App. Chron. in Ann. Reg. 209/2 He recollected it was not *transfer-day.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 63 Certificates must accompany *transfer deeds.
1931R. Pinter Educ. Psychol. xii. 268, I feel sure that actual measurements of the *transfer effects would be very disappointing to me as a teacher. 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Soc. Differences ix. 194 For a time there was a general tendency to be sceptical concerning any claim of transfer-effects. 1963Rep. Comm. Inquiry Decimal Curr. xi. 109 in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2145) XI. 195 Psychologists have advised us that giving an old name to a new currency unit could result in serious ‘transfer effect’ difficulties. 1977Language LIII. 340 ‘Transfer effects’ may reverse the natural order of the acquisition of a sound or structure.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Transfer-elevator, an elevator or crane for hoisting from one vessel into another.
1956Jrnl. Exper. Med. CIV. 328 The above experiments suggest that release of the *transfer factor from sensitive cells may occur under relatively mild circumstances. 1978J. A. Bellanti Immunology II xiii. 333 Attempts to detect antibody in the transfer factor have always been negative, and since its small molecular weight became known, this possibility has been excluded. 1983Oxf. Textbk. Med. I. v. 10/2 Therapy with transfer factor may..find an accepted place in the management of a limited number of clinical situations.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 63 *Transfer fee, 2s. 6d. each. 1901Football News (Nottingham) 9 Mar. 6/3 New Brighton offered Everton {pstlg}135 for my transfer, and Burnley were prepared to pay {pstlg}200, but neither offer came to anything. Consequently I had to come South out of the reach of transfer fees. 1911A. Bennett Card xii. 296 How are you going to get new blood, with transfer fees as high as they are now? You can't get even an average good player for less than {pstlg}200. 1976Western Mail (Cardiff) 27 Nov., The three Welsh clubs..could also release experienced players to Somerton Park on a loan basis, should Newport be able to obtain transfer fees for any of their own professionals.
1948Brown & Campbell Princ. Servomechanisms i. 18 The system behaviour may be represented in terms of *transfer functions KG (jω), which are complex functions of the frequency variable ω. 1963R. W. Ditchburn Light (ed. 2) viii. 304 The transfer function constitutes a better evaluation of the performance of the optical system than a statement of the resolving power. 1971Nature 20 Aug. 564/1 McFarland and Budgell found a transfer function for key pecking by thirsty birds in response to modulations of ambient temperature. 1977Gramophone June 122/1 The speaker converts an electric signal into an acoustic wave and..may be regarded as a ‘black box’, with a particular transfer function representing its overall response in terms of sound waves. 1981D. J. Fisk Thermal Control of Buildings i. 9 The transfer function of a room..is not unique but depends on where heat is input..and where its output temperature is measured.
1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xi. (ed. 3) 78 A single copy might be printed off with *transfer ink.
1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. (1842) 322 Capped or *transfer jars are such as, being open above, have a cap cemented upon them, the latter being surmounted by a stop-cock. Ibid. xxiv. 627 Fill a transfer jar..with water..over the trough.
1877Knight Dict. Mech., *Transfer-lathe, for..reducing large designs in relief to proportions suitable for coin.
1956E. Molloy Automobile Engineer's Ref. Bk. iii. 210 Only one head is used at the next station. This is at the right of the *transfer line, and is a plunge-cut horizontal milling head for milling the bearing-retaining slots. 1975Sci. Amer. Feb. 25/1 Under mass-production conditions..the engine block is conveyed automatically along a transfer line.
1951People 3 June 6/7 Still on Spurs' *transfer list at a fee is Cyril Toulouse. 1976Star (Sheffield) 29 Oct. 28/6 Terry Eccles..is on the transfer list at his own request.
1897Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 7/3 To the average man the difference between ‘lithography’ and ‘*transfer-lithography’ matters little.
1951Treat. on Milling & Milling Machines (ed. 4) xvii. 723 In order to reduce handling time, it is often advantageous to perform a number of different machining operations..with a multiple-station automatic machine... Such machines are also known as *transfer machines. 1977Sci. Amer. May 89/1 (Advt.), Transfer machines finish rough castings into complex pieces such as engine blocks.
1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. b7/4 Both see what is called the *transfer market—the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who move from one community to another each year—as increasingly important. 1976Evening Times (Glasgow) 1 Dec. 32/2 Partick Thistle could be involved at both ends of the transfer market before the weekend.
1933U.S. Patent 1,919,534 5/1 A device of the class described for *transfer molding an infusibly thermosetting resinous material. 1942J. Sasso Plastics for Industr. Use iii. 36 Figure 13 shows an example of a transfer mold with a transfer plunger entering the transfer well. 1963H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 165/1 Radio and television cabinets weighing up to four pounds have been transfer-molded from phenolic materials. 1971E. W. Duck Plastics & Rubbers iv. 56 Transfer moulds..can be regarded as very crude injection moulds, since they first pre-heat the plastic in the transfer cavity.
1940J. Delmonte Plastics in Engin. xi. 319 The term, *transfer molding, has been used to designate specifically the injection of thermosetting materials. 1963H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 164/1 In the transfer-molding process..the mold is completely closed and under clamping pressure before the material is injected into the mold cavity. This results in little or no flash and accurate control of dimensions.
1693Act 5 Will. & Mary c. 7. §54 The *Transfer Office above mentioned shall bee continued. 1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 430 All the stock registered in New York at the transfer office now kept by Duncan, Sherman, and Co., shall also be registered at another office.
1961W. T. Thomson Introd. Space Dynamics iv. 66 Transfer between coplanar circular orbits can be effected by an elliptic orbit with perigee and apogee distances equal to the radii of the respective circles... The cotangential ellipse is known as the Hohmann *transfer orbit. 1964Listener 7 May 748/1 Once the transfer orbit has been entered, the probe will be moving in free fall, and no further thrust need be applied.
1841Brit. Pat. 9002 18 Obtaining several copies of marks by the use of surfaces of *transfer paper. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Transfer-paper, prepared paper used by lithographers; thin, unsized paper for taking copies of letters with a copying-press. 1878Abney Photogr. (1881) 171 A piece of transfer paper (which is paper coated with gelatine subsequently rendered insoluble in water by alum or other such body) is placed in water of about 60° C., and softened.
1964S. M. Miller in I. C. Horowitz New Sociology 301 In our country, the redistribution of income takes place to a large extent in *transfer payments of welfare and social assistance. 1973Times 9 June 19/2 A transfer payment is a payment made by the scheme of a former employee to the scheme of the employee's present employer in consideration of which the new employer's scheme takes over the responsibility for benefits in respect of the service with the former employer. 1976Hansard (Canada) 17 Mar. 11881/1 The balance of $22 billion was in the form of transfer payments to persons, provinces and corporations for subsidies, and so on.
1963H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 164/2 When the mold is opened, the small amount of material remaining in the *transfer pot..is removed. 1971B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. vi. 38 The mould (die) consists of two sections, an upper transfer chamber (transfer pot)..and a lower mould.
1877Knight Dict. Mech., *Transfer-press.
1969J. Argenti Managem. Techniques 76 As the complexity and size of the company increases..the task of preparing a budget becomes highly intricate due to such problems as *transfer prices and allocation of central overheads. 1974Terminol. Managem. & Financial Accountancy (Inst. Cost & Managem. Accountants) 17 Transfer price, a price related to goods or other benefits transferred from one process or department to another or from one member of a group to another.
1971D. C. Hague Managerial Economics iii. x. 220 The problem of how to price a product as it leaves one department for another—the problem of *transfer pricing—is one that has troubled accountants and managers for many years. 1979Abacus (Sydney) XV. 3 International transfer pricing is concerned with the pricing of goods and services transferred between a company's domestic divisions and foreign subsidiaries or among those foreign subsidiaries themselves.
1869Lady C. Schreiber Jrnl. 15 Sept. (1911) I. 37 We bought a couple of *transfer-printed Wedgwood plates. Ibid. 17 Sept. 39, I coveted a small transfer-printed leaf. 1938Burlington Mag. May p. xvii/2 Some rare Liverpool transfer-printed mugs. 1976Times 24 July 9/3 Whieldon plates..and transfer-printed cream⁓wares.
1865Athenæum 25 Nov. 733/1 *Transfer-printing in pottery. 1905Daily Chron. 24 Aug. 3/2 The single invention in porcelain decoration at our credit in the eighteenth century was transfer-printing.
1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2368/2 Jacob Perkins, of Massachusetts, the inventor of the *transfer-process.
1961Ann. Reg. 1960 402 It was thought a further kind of RNA, called ‘*Transfer’ RNA, might be necessary to link the amino acids into a protein molecule. 1977Time 4 Apr. 39/2 Aaron Klug..first determined the crystalline structure of transfer RNA (tRNA), the molecule that brings amino acids to the ribosome for assembly into protein.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 198 The negotiations with the South Eastern in reference to a new *transfer station at Waterloo.
1861Massachusetts Stat. 199 §2 *Transfer ticket.
b. Chiefly Electronics. Used attrib. to designate a ratio of two quantities measured simultaneously at two different points of a circuit or device.
1933[see mutual a. 1 f]. 1943F. E. Terman Radio Engineers' Handbk. iii. 200 The transfer impedance is defined as the ratio of the voltage E1 applied in mesh 1 to the resulting current I2 of mesh 2. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. III. 429/2 The transfer characteristic H of the controller mathematically relates the controller M1 to its input E: M1 = HE. 1975Havill & Walton Elem. Electronics iv. 69 For the particular case of the transistor, the output and transfer characteristics are almost linear over substantial regions of the normal operating range. 1980J. R. O'Malley Circuit Analysis xix. 467 The most popular of these transfer functions are the transfer impedance.., the transfer admittance.., the transfer voltage ratio or voltage gain.., and the transfer current ratio.
▪ II. transfer, v.|trɑːnsˈfɜː(r), træns-, -nz-|
Also 5–7 -ferre, 7 -ferr. Inflected transˈferred, etc.
[a. F. transfér-er (3rd s. transfère) (14th c. in Littré), or its source, L. transfer-re, f. trans- + ferre to bear, carry, bring.]
1. trans. To convey or take from one place, person, etc. to another; to transmit, transport; to give or hand over from one to another.
1382Wyclif Ezek. xlviii. 14 Nether the first fruytis of the lond shuln be transferrid [gloss or born ouer, 1388 translatid], for thei ben halewid to the Lord. c1425St. Christina xxxvii. in Anglia VIII. 133/35 Þe biggynge of the abbeye was transferred to a better place. c1430Art of Nombryng 9 Put a cifre þer and transferre the article towarde the lift hande. 1516in Acts Parlt. Scotl. (1875) XII. 36/2 It is thocht..that þe said governoure..suld transfer himselff to uthir cuntreis. 1624Godwin Moses & Aaron (1641) 158 The moderne Jewes doe transferre the fault upon certaine proselyte ægyptians who came forth with them. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. ii. (1701) 73/1 He first transferr'd Natural Philosophy out of Ionia to Athens. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 316 Divide one of these nine equal parts into two equal parts, and transfer that distance to the other eight equal parts. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. II. 357 Campegio..shortly after transferred the cause before the court of Rome. 1783Burke Rep. Affairs Ind. Wks. XI. 42 If the court of directors should disapprove of his being transferred to Bengal. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 86 For transferring {pstlg}5690 Reduced Stock into the Four per Cents. 1818in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 573 Transferring three or four of the trees to another site. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. vii. (1862) 94 The people's power being transferred to the representative body. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxii. 151, I transferred my scrip to his shoulders, and led the way.
b. fig. esp. in Sematology: see quots.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 77 Metaphora, which is, when a word from the proper or right signification is transferred to another neere vnto the meaning. 1883Murray Eng. Dict. Gen. Explan. p. xxi, As the primitive sense [of words] has been..transferred boldly to figurative and analogical uses.
c. intr. for refl. or pass.
1646G. Daniel Upon Virgil 32 Wks. 1878 I. 22 But Wee..averre Soules are not lost, or Dye, but doe transfer. 1901Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 3/4 He transferred later to the 19th Hussars, in which regiment he served in the Soudan campaign. 1911Webster, Transfer, to change from one car, line, or the like, to another for continuing one's journey on a transfer.
2. Law. To convey or make over (title, right, or property) by deed or legal process.
1598Florio, s.v. Trascriuere, To transfer or giue ouer his right to another. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xiv. 67 My right is not transferred, but remaineth till I transferre it by some other Act. 1671Court Bks. Roy. African Co. 19 Dec. (P.R.O.), I do transfer {pstlg}500 of my subscription in the new joint stock of the Royal Company to the Rt. Hon. George Lord Berkeley. 1694J. Houghton Collect. Improv. Husb. & Trade V. No. 102 [Form] ‘I A. B. do hereby sell, assign, and transferr unto C. D. Ten Shares in the Joynt-Stock..with all the present and future Profits thereof’. 1771Junius Lett. lxvii. (1797) II. 235 To this son-in-law..you meant to transfer the..property. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 65 A grant only transfers what the grantor may lawfully give. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 14 Sometimes things can be literally handed over, like a watch or a book; sometimes they can be transferred by a written deed.
3. To convey (a drawing or design) from one surface to another, esp. (a) to a lithographic stone, to earthenware, glass, etc., by means of transfer-paper; (b) to a new back or ground, as an embroidered pattern, etc.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1017 This [roll of flannel] is used as a burnisher, one end of it being rested against the shoulder, and the other end being rubbed upon the paper; by which means it transfers all the engraved traces to the biscuit. 1860Ibid. (ed. 5) III. 501 There are two distinct methods of printing in use for china and earthenware; one is transferred on the bisque..and the other is transferred on the glaze. The first is called ‘press printing’, and the latter ‘bat printing’. 1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2611/2 In engraving, a tracing may be made in pencil and transferred to the ground by running through the plate-press. An impression from a plate or stone may also be transferred to a stone.
Hence transferred |-ˈfɜːd| ppl. a., conveyed from one person, place, sense, etc. to another. transferred epithet, an epithet grammatically qualifying a noun other than (though contextually associated with) the noun to which it literally applies.
1863H. Allon Mem. J. Sherman 279, 102 members were added in 1839 and 63 in 1840, including transferred members. 1866A. Bain Eng. Comp. & Rhet. 24 The Transferred Epithet is a common figure in Poetry. The shifting of an epithet from its proper subject to some allied subject..is seen in... ‘Hence to his idle bed.’ 1883Murray Dict. Gen. Explan. p. xxi, The word was first taken into English..in a figurative, transferred, or specialized use. 1886J. W. Ebsworth Roxb. Ball. VI. 165 As a transferred ballad, Dulcina was entered to John White and Thomas Langley, in the Registers of the Stationers' Company. 1947C. Brooks Well Wrought Urn ix. 159 One can..justify the adjective as a transferred epithet on the model of Vergil's maestum timorem. 1958C. Brooke-Rose Gram. Metaphor iii. 57, I have not found this transferred epithet in the later texts. |