transfern.
/ˈtrɑːnsfəː/, /ˈtransfəː/, U.S. /ˈtræn(t)sfər/ 1. Law. Conveyance from one person to another of property, spec. of shares or stock.
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society > law > transfer of property > [noun]
release1344
alienationc1425
conveying1483
transportc1485
state making1487
conveyance1523
designation1573
transferring1573
assignation1579
dispose1591
assignment1592
convey1592
disposing1638
disposurea1649
attornment1650
abalienation1656
transfer1674
disposal1697
conveyancing1714
transference1766
disposition1861
1674 Court Bks. Royal Afr. Co. (P.R.O.) , [Form of acceptance] I do accept of —— his transfer of £—— abovesaid the day and year abovewritten.
1693 Act 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.
1694 Bank of Eng. Charter 27 July There shall be constantly kept..a Register, or Book or Books, wherein all Assignments and Transfers shall be entered.
1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 274 All the Thursday Morning was taken up in private Transfers.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. i. 9 The reciprocal transfer of property by sale, grant, or conveyance.
1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 367 Observations on the transfer of our domestic debt to foreigners.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. i. 5 The office in which are effected the transfers of the Company's stock and annuities.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. vii. 282 The lowest case of legal transfer is that of a debt.
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a. gen. The act of transferring or fact of being transferred; conveyance or removal from one place, person, etc. to another; transference; transmission.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun]
translationc1384
remevement1437
translatingc1454
transferring1573
remove1582
transplantation1606
transactiona1608
removal1610
transumption1615
transduction1656
diabasis1672
transference1766
transfer1785
transferrala1790
transplanting1790
takeover1909
rollover1941
1785 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 33 To remonstrate against the transfer of an immense sum of public money from the national service.
1811 J. Adams Wks. (1856) X. 3 I wait with patience for a transfer to another scene.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. iii. 53 An amply sufficient cause for the transfer of his allegiance.
1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic iv. 32 Equivocal words have become so by a transfer of meaning.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 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.
1907 Trans. Devon. Assoc. 50 The transfer of the county See to Exeter.
b. Nautical. In tacking: The distance traversed at right angles to the line of advance.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > course > distance traversed in tack
transfer1889
1889 Cent. Dict. at 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. Psychology. (More fully transfer of practice, transfer of 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 n. at negative adj., adv.2, and int. Compounds; positive adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > types of learning > [noun] > transfer of skills
transfer1901
positive transfer1921
1901 Thorndike & 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.
1924 Psychol. Rev. 31 157 There is no evidence for such transfer of training among rats.
1948 E. 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.
1970 W. Halstead & W. 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. Cf. transfer fee n. (b) at Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > transfer
remove1610
transfer1895
1895 Football News (Nottingham) 2 Nov. 1/6 It is stated that the Forest have offered £70 for Bruce's transfer.
1911 Dalton Guardian 21 Jan. 11/6 [Football] The transfer of [A] and [B] was confirmed.
1923 J. D. Hackett Labor Terms in Managem. Engin. May Transfer, the shifting of a worker from one occupation to another.
1937 Daily Herald 5 Feb. 19/7 When the [football] talk was of transfer and things, and when Childs..had just signed on the dotted line for Luton.
1970 Times 13 Oct. 15/3 Trevor Gould..has been given a free transfer by Coventry City.
1973 J. 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.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > one who or that which is transferred
transfer1839
carryover1885
transferee1892
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > types of > executed in specific manner
perspective1597
grotesque1643
al fresco1756
gesso1759
polychrome1801
transfer1839
rangoli1884
trompe l'œil1889
retardataire1903
environment1962
CAD1965
photo work1981
Georgiana1989
1839 Trans. 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.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Transfer..a soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Transfer, an impression taken on paper, cloth, etc., and then laid upon an object and caused to adhere thereto by pressure.
1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 38 A transfer paper is prepared.., on which the transfer to be preserved is pulled.
1883 J. T. Taylor Hardwich's Man. Photogr. Chem. (ed. 9) 311 If a mat surface be desired, the transfer should be stripped from the glass before it is quite dry.
1929 Daily Express 7 Nov. 12/4 The prizes will hardly be glittering enough to attract the best ‘transfers’.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 35/6 The Mustangs have six experienced transfers who must be fitted in.
1979 Arizona 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.
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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.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > ferry
ferry1192
ferry boat1374
water-fare1610
transfer1883
cross-ferry1900
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > ticket for a public conveyance > other types of ticket
transfer-ticket1861
transfer1883
open date1967
saver1977
standby1980
1883 I. M. Rittenhouse Maud (1939) 187 The sun was just coming up as we crossed the river on the transfer.
1892 S. Hale Let. 28 Apr. (1919) 269 I mounted a cable, took a transfer, and went..out into the suburbs.
1903 A. 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. Commerce. The instrument by which goods are transferred, a transfer order.
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1924 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 245/1 The buyer will retain this transfer until it suits him to collect the goods, or he may endorse and deliver it to some third party.
d. Archery. A sheet to which all scores are transferred from the target-papers.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > scorecard
target-card1875
transfer1909
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) The transfers are the official record from which the prize-list is made up.
5. Chiefly Electronics. Used attributively to designate a ratio of two quantities measured simultaneously at two different points of a circuit or device.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > [adjective] > designating ratio
transfer1933
1933 K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. viii. 195 The mutual characteristic, or transfer characteristic of the tube, shows the effect of the grid voltage upon the plate current.
1943 F. 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.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) III. 429/2 The transfer characteristic H of the controller mathematically relates the controller M1 to its input E: M1 = HE.
1975 Havill & 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.
1980 J. R. O'Malley Circuit Anal. 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.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
transfer agent n.
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1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 430 All certificates [shall] be signed by both the transfer agent and register.
1978 A. Maling Lucky Devil xix. 103 You are the transfer agent for Lucky Devil Minerals.
transfer-boat n.
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1882 Uncle Rufus & Ma 52 We ferried over in a transfer boat.
1888 Daily 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.
transfer cheque n.
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1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major xxvi. 201 What the Treasury calls ‘contingent drafts’, and ‘transfer checks’, and Treasury warrants.
transfer-clerk n.
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1899 Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 7/1 It is nothing..for a transfer clerk to wait for forty-five minutes at the Associated office.
transfer-company n. 4b.
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1879 H. T. Williams Pacific Tourist 262/1 The Transfer Company will carry baggage alone for 50 cents.
1909 E. Banks Myst. Frances Farrington 159 These trunks had been delivered by a responsible Transfer Company's waggon.
transfer-deed n.
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1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 63 Certificates must accompany transfer deeds.
transfer-department n.
transfer-form n.
transfer list n.
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1951 People 3 June 6/7 Still on Spurs' transfer list at a fee is Cyril Toulouse.
1976 Star (Sheffield) 29 Oct. 28/6 Terry Eccles..is on the transfer list at his own request.
transfer market n.
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1970 Globe & 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.
1976 Evening Times (Glasgow) 1 Dec. 32/2 Partick Thistle could be involved at both ends of the transfer market before the weekend.
transfer money n.
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1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. iii. § 1 When Steve heard how much transfer money had been paid for him.
transfer office n.
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1693 Act 5 Will. & Mary c. 7. §54 The Transfer Office above mentioned shall bee continued.
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 430 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.
transfer payment n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > specific banking procedures
standing order1619
out-clearing1836
credit transfer1847
clearance1858
resumption1866
money transfer1873
in-clearing1878
wire transfer1878
clearing1883
giro1896
lockbox1957
transfer payment1964
disintermediation1966
reintermediation1970
1964 S. M. Miller in I. C. Horowitz New Sociol. 301 In our country, the redistribution of income takes place to a large extent in transfer payments of welfare and social assistance.
1973 Times 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.
1976 Deb. House of Commons (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.
transfer price n.
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1969 J. 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.
1974 Terminol. 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.
transfer pricing n.
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1971 D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. (rev. ed.) 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.
1979 Abacus (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.
transfer-process n.
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1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2368/2 Jacob Perkins, of Massachusetts, the inventor of the transfer-process.
transfer rate n.
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transfer-book n. a register of transfers of property, esp. that of its shares or stock, kept by a joint-stock company.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > records, reports, or documents
bookc1405
memoir1571
transfer-book1694
order book1771
job note1803
log1861
deed of association1866
logbook1869
job sheet1919
kanban1977
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > other types of account book
journal1540
bankers' book1585
shop book?1594
waste-book1613
cash-book1622
counter-book1622
pay-book1622
copybook1660
audit-booka1680
bankbook1682
transfer-book1694
malt-book1710
pay list1757
petty cash book1827
passbook1833
stock book1835
guard book1839
tommy book1841
bought-book1849
in-clearing book1872
out-clearing book1882
out-book1884
trial-book1890
1694 Coll. Improvem. Husbandry & Trade No. 102 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.
1701 London 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.
1746 H. Fielding True Patriot 7 Jan. 1/1 The Cash, Transfer Books, &c. removed to the Tower, from the Bank.
transfer case n. (a) a case in(to) which materials are transferred; (b) Mechanics (the housing of) a mechanism for dividing the power between a number of axles in a motor vehicle with two or more driving axles.
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society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > filing > case
transfer case1923
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > part of > housing
thimble1789
transfer case1923
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > other parts
thermo-siphon1834
crank-case1878
manifolda1884
hot tube1889
sump1894
hit-and-miss governor1897
engine pit1903
retard1903
head1904
gasket1915
gravity tank1917
cylinder block1923
transfer case1923
swirl chamber1934
manifolding1938
ignition switch1952
catalytic converter1955
small block1963
cat1988
1923 H. 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.
1949 I. Frazee et al. Automotive Fundamentals vi. 378 The transfer case is located behind the transmission.
1970 Southerly 30 216 Gear box and transfer case and differentials growled a deep throated work song with power to spare.
1983 Judge 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.
transfer chamber n. the chamber in which the material is initially heated in transfer moulding.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with plastics
transfer mould1933
transfer chamber1946
compression mould1951
preformer1952
slush mould1957
plug assist1958
transfer pot1963
1946 J. H. Du Bois & W. I. 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.
1977 Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 29/5 There has been at least one case of a transfer chamber exploding.
transfer-day n. at the Bank of England, a day for the register of transfers of bank-stock.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > transfer-day
transfer-day1772
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 209/2 He recollected it was not transfer-day.
transfer effect n. (also transfer effects) the result(s) of transfer of training (see sense 2c).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > types of learning > [noun] > transfer of skills > result of transfer
transfer effect1931
1931 R. Pinter Educ. Psychol. xii. 268 I feel sure that actual measurements of the transfer effects would be very disappointing to me as a teacher.
1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences ix. 194 For a time there was a general tendency to be sceptical concerning any claim of transfer-effects.
1963 Rep. Comm. Inq. Decimal Currency 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.
1977 Language 53 340 ‘Transfer effects’ may reverse the natural order of the acquisition of a sound or structure.
transfer-elevator n. a crane for transferring cargo from one vessel to another.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > types of
quay crane1821
balance-crane1824
well crane1836
water crane1849
jenny1861
jib-crane1873
stacker1875
Titan1876
transfer-elevatora1884
whip-crane1883
Goliath1888
jigger1891
wharf crane1893
floating crane1903
tower crane1906
hammer-headed crane1908
portal crane1908
hammer-head crane1910
luffing crane1913
cherry-picker1945
stacker crane1959
monotower1963
Transtainer1964
portainer1966
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 901/1 Transfer-elevator, an elevator or crane for hoisting from one vessel into another.
transfer factor n. 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.
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the world > life > biology > substance > process stimulators or inhibitors > other immunological substances or particles > [noun] > transfer factor
transfer factor1956
1956 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 104 328 The above experiments suggest that release of the transfer factor from sensitive cells may occur under relatively mild circumstances.
1978 J. A. Bellanti Immunol. 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.
1983 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. 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.
transfer fee n. (a) that charged by a joint-stock company for registering a transfer; (b) Association Football a sum of money paid by one club to another for the transfer of the services of a professional player.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for banking, coining, or financial services
shroffage1629
bank charge1659
procuration money1671
procuration1673
agio1696
premium1717
brassage1806
procuration fee1822
application money1869
transfer fee1869
demurrage1875
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > player > transfer fee
transfer fee1869
fee1899
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 63 Transfer fee, 2s. 6d. each.
1901 Football News (Nottingham) 9 Mar. 6/3 New Brighton offered Everton £135 for my transfer, and Burnley were prepared to pay £200, but neither offer came to anything. Consequently I had to come South out of the reach of transfer fees.
1911 A. 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 £200.
1976 Western 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.
transfer function n. a mathematical function relating the output or response of anything to the input or stimulus; also transferred.
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the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > function
function1758
exponential1784
potential function1828
syzygy1850
permutant1852
Green function1863
theta-function1871
Greenian1876
Gudermannian1876
discriminoid1877
Weierstrassian function1878
gradient1887
beta function1888
distribution function1889
Riemann zeta function1899
Airy integral1903
Poisson bracket1904
Stirling approximation1908
functional1915
metric1921
Fourier transform1923
recursive function1934
utility function1934
Airy function1939
transfer function1948
objective function1949
restriction1949
multifunction1954
restriction mapping1956
scalar function1956
Langevin function1960
mass function1961
1948 G. S. Brown & D. P. 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.
1963 R. 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.
1971 Nature 20 Aug. 564/1 McFarland and Budgell found a transfer function for key pecking by thirsty birds in response to modulations of ambient temperature.
1977 Gramophone 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.
1981 D. 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.
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transfer-gilding n. in ceramics, transfer of a pattern in gold, as from paper to unglazed ware.
transfer-ink n. ink used in lithography.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > other materials
transfer-ink1832
transfer-paper1841
tusche1885
chromo paper1896
lithographic varnish1903
etch1930
lithographic paper1937
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xi. 59 A single copy of the work might be printed off with transfer ink.
transfer-jar n. a jar used in the collection of gases over liquid.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > glass > others
urinalc1300
recipient1558
matrass1591
tritory1660
balloon1678
proof-glass1765
air-bell1782
transfer-jar1827
ignition tube1874
beaker1877
bell-jar1877
flask1878
steam-bomb1895
Nessler tube1906
oxygen bottle1932
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. 317 Capped or transfer jars, are such as being open above, have a cap cemented upon them, the latter being surmounted by a stop-cock.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiv. 618 Fill a transfer jar..with water..over the trough.
transfer-lathe n. see quot.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > other lathes
pole-lathe1815
throw-lathe1875
turret-lathe1875
transfer-lathe1877
trimming-machine1877
portrait lathea1884
semi-automatic1902
chamfering lathe1921
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Transfer-lathe, for..reducing large designs in relief to proportions suitable for coin.
transfer line n. Engineering a line of work-stations along which a part is automatically conveyed to be subjected to a sequence of automatic machining operations.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [noun] > assembly or production line
production line1905
assembly line1914
line1926
track1931
transfer line1956
1956 E. 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.
1975 Sci. Amer. Feb. 25/1 Under mass-production conditions..the engine block is conveyed automatically along a transfer line.
transfer-lithography n. see sense 3.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > types of
autography1828
chromolithography1839
lithochromatography1843
lithochrysography1845
lithochromatic1846
lithochrome1854
oleography1870
autolithography1874
lithochromy1885
tin printing1887
typo-etching1888
transfer-lithography1897
EUV1995
1897 Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 7/3 To the average man the difference between ‘lithography’ and ‘transfer-lithography’ matters little.
transfer machine n. Engineering a composite machine that performs a series of operations without the intervention of the operator.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > automatic > performing without intervention of operator
transfer machine1951
1951 Treat. 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.
1977 Sci. Amer. May 89/1 (advt.) Transfer machines finish rough castings into complex pieces such as engine blocks.
transfer-man n. (a) a railway porter who takes passengers' luggage from one station to another or one who transfers goods from one train to another; (b) U.S. = check-man n. at check int. and n.1 Compounds 2.
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1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 706 Transfer man.
transfer mould n. the mould cavity in transfer moulding; also (with hyphen) as v. transitive, to make by means of transfer moulding.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with plastics
transfer mould1933
transfer chamber1946
compression mould1951
preformer1952
slush mould1957
plug assist1958
transfer pot1963
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with rubber or plastic > work with rubber or plastic [verb (transitive)] > mould plastics
transfer mould1933
preform1936
post-form1961
1933 U.S. Patent 1,919,534 5/1 A device of the class described for transfer molding an infusibly thermosetting resinous material.
1942 J. Sasso Plastics for Industr. Use iii. 36 Figure 13 shows an example of a transfer mold with a transfer plunger entering the transfer well.
1963 H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 165/1 Radio and television cabinets weighing up to four pounds have been transfer-molded from phenolic materials.
1971 E. 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.
transfer moulding n. 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.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with rubber or plastic > [noun] > moulding plastics
preforming1931
injection moulding1932
compression moulding1940
transfer moulding1940
slush moulding1943
postforming1945
vacuum forming1946
drape forming1958
thermoforming1958
1940 J. Delmonte Plastics in Engin. xi. 319 The term, transfer molding, has been used to designate specifically the injection of thermosetting materials.
1963 H. 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.
transfer orbit n. 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.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > course or trajectory of spacecraft > orbiting > types of orbit
parking orbit1941
polar orbit1956
transfer orbit1961
Molniya orbit1981
1961 W. 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.
1964 Listener 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.
transfer order n. Commerce an instrument issued by an importer to a buyer for goods warehoused to be held over to his order.
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1924 Times Trade & Engin. Suppl. 29 Nov. 245/1 Instead of a delivery order, an importer may issue a transfer order.
transfer-paper n. paper used in making transfers in lithography and other processes.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > other materials
transfer-ink1832
transfer-paper1841
tusche1885
chromo paper1896
lithographic varnish1903
etch1930
lithographic paper1937
1841 Brit. Pat. 9002 18 Obtaining several copies of marks by the use of surfaces of transfer paper.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Transfer-paper, prepared paper used by lithographers; thin, unsized paper for taking copies of letters with a copying-press.
1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. 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.
transfer porter n. = transfer-man n. (a).
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society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > porter
portera1382
railway porter1839
baggage-smasher1851
transfer porter1921
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms §§ 706, 759 Transfer porter.
transfer pot n. = transfer chamber n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with plastics
transfer mould1933
transfer chamber1946
compression mould1951
preformer1952
slush mould1957
plug assist1958
transfer pot1963
1963 H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 164/2 When the mold is opened, the small amount of material remaining in the transfer pot..is removed.
1971 B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. vi. 38 The mould (die) consists of two sections, an upper transfer chamber (transfer pot)..and a lower mould.
transfer-press n. in engraving, a transferring machine.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > metal plate > equipment
sandbag1658
cushion1735
scraper1747
bridge1860
transfer-press1877
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Transfer-press.
transfer-printed adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > printing on china and glass > [adjective]
transfer-printed1869
1869 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 15 Sept. (1911) I. 37 We bought a couple of transfer-printed Wedgwood plates.
1869 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 17 Sept. (1911) I. 39 I coveted a small transfer-printed leaf.
1938 Burlington Mag. May p. xvii/2 Some rare Liverpool transfer-printed mugs.
1976 Times 24 July 9/3 Whieldon plates..and transfer-printed cream~wares.
transfer-printing n. a process by which designs are printed on fictile and other ware; also printing by means of lithography.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > printing on china and glass > [noun]
blueprinting1815
potichomania1854
decalcomania1864
transfer-printing1865
crystoleum1882
1865 Athenæum 25 Nov. 733/1 Transfer-printing in pottery.
1905 Daily Chron. 24 Aug. 3/2 The single invention in porcelain decoration at our credit in the eighteenth century was transfer-printing.
transfer RNA n. Molecular Biology 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.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > nucleic acid > RNA
pentose nucleic acid1924
ribonucleic acid1930
ribose nucleic acid1942
RNA1942
sRNA1957
ribosomal RNA1959
messenger RNA1961
transfer RNA1961
metagon1962
rRNA1962
tRNA1962
1961 Ann. 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.
1977 Time 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.
transfer station n. a point at which transfer-tickets are given, and passengers transferred from one car to another ( Cent. Dict. Suppl.).
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > other types
stopping station1840
way station1840
flag-station1852
by-station1864
transfer station1869
junction1876
stationette1891
station house1891
halt1910
stub station1916
ghost station1928
whistle-stop1934
parkway1972
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 198 The negotiations with the South Eastern in reference to a new transfer station at Waterloo.
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transfer-table n. U.S. a railway traverse-table.
transfer-ticket n. 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.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > ticket for a public conveyance > other types of ticket
transfer-ticket1861
transfer1883
open date1967
saver1977
standby1980
1861 Massachusetts Stat. 199 §2 Transfer ticket.
transfer value n. (see quot. 1924).
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1924 Act 14 & 15 Geo. V c. 38. § 43 (2) Where an insured person duly ceases to be a member of one approved society and becomes a member of another approved society, there shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be transferred to that society in respect of that person a sum (called in this Act ‘transfer value’) representing the liability..of the first-mentioned society.
transfer-work n. designs made by transferring or transfer-printing.
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transfer window n. Association Football a specific period in the year during which professional clubs are permitted to buy and sell players.
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1992 Independent 27 Mar. 39/1 Next season the Premier League will be in operation and one of the options under consideration is what chief executive Rick Parry describes as a ‘transfer window’.
2004 World Soccer Dec. 9/3 It would be a good thing were he to leave Stamford Bridge when the transfer window opens again in January.
2010 A. Porteous Gloryhunting Epil. 726 Raith Rovers momentously signed Ally Faithful for ‘a nominal fee’ during the summer transfer window.
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transferv.
/trɑːnsˈfəː/, /transˈfəː/, /ˈtransfəː/, /ˈtrɑːnsfəː/, U.S. /træn(t)sˈfər/, /ˈtræn(t)sfər/ 1.
a. transitive. To convey or take from one place, person, etc. to another; to transmit, transport; to give or hand over from one to another.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)]
remuea1325
movea1382
translatea1382
transfer1382
transfigurec1384
removea1387
to turn overa1425
transume1483
to carry about1496
traduce1546
transplant1555
transact1621
transmigrate1635
hand1642
to make over1713
recover1719
to carry over1850
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xlviii. 14 Nether the first fruytis of the lond shuln be transferrid [gloss or born ouer, a1425 L.V. translatid], for thei ben halewid to the Lord.
c1425 St. Christina xxxvii, in Anglia VIII. 133/35 Þe biggynge of the abbeye was transferred to a better place.
c1430 Art of Nombryng 9 Put a cifre þer and transferre the article towarde the lift hande.
1516 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 36/2 It is thocht..that þe said governoure..suld transfer himselff to uthir cuntreis.
1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron iv. v. 193 The moderne Iewes doe transferre the fault vpon certaine proselyte Egyptians who came forth with them.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. ii. 19 He first transferr'd naturall Philosophy out of Jonia to Athens.
1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 316 Divide one of these nine equal parts into two equal parts, and transfer that distance to the other eight equal parts.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 357 Campegio..shortly after transferred the cause before the court of Rome.
1783 E. Burke 9th Rep. Select Comm. Justice in Bengal, Bahar & Orissa in Parl. Papers VI. 43 If the Court of Directors should disapprove of his being transferred to Bengal.
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 86 For transferring £5690 Reduced Stock into the Four per Cents.
1818 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 573 Transferring three or four of the trees to another site.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxii. 151 I transferred my scrip to his shoulders, and led the way.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) vii. 94 The people's power being transferred to the representative body.
b. figurative esp. in Sematology: see quots.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > express with figure of meaning [verb (transitive)] > express metaphorically or figuratively > use metaphorically or figuratively
translate1534
invert1589
transfer1592
tropologize1678
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. M3v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Metaphora, which is when a word from the proper or right signification is transferred to another neere vnto the meaning.
1883 N.E.D. I. Gen. Explan. p. xxi As the primitive sense [of words] has been..transferred boldly to figurative and analogical uses.
c. intransitive for reflexive or passive.
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the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)] > change place or position
flitc1175
passa1387
changec1390
skifta1400
shift1530
transmigrate1611
reshift1629
transfer1646
to turn over1851
reposition1947
translocate1975
1646 G. Daniel Upon Virgil 32, in Wks. (1878) I. 22 But Wee..averre Soules are not lost, or Dye, but doe transfer.
1901 Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 3/4 He transferred later to the 19th Hussars, in which regiment he served in the Soudan campaign.
1904 N.Y. Herald 13 Nov. 3 The man was transferring from the Queens car to the Jamaica car when he was struck.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 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.
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society > law > transfer of property > transfer [verb (transitive)]
assign1297
bequeathc1305
alienc1400
analy1405
releasea1425
alienate?a1475
to make over1478
convey1495
transport1523
to put over1542
dispone?1548
design1573
pass1587
to set over1594
transfer1598
abalienate1646
attorn1649
demise1670
enure1736
to will away1773
divest1790
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To transfer or giue ouer his right to another.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xiv. 67 My right is not transferred, but remaineth till I transferre it by some other Act.
1671 Minute Bk. Gen. Court Royal Afr. Co. (P.R.O.: T 70/100) f. 22 I Do Transferre fiue hundred pounds of my subscription in the new Joynt stock of ye Royall Company to the Rt. Hon. George Lord Berkeley.
1694 Coll. Improvem. Husbandry & Trade 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’.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lxvii. 306 To this son-in-law..you meant to transfer the..property.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 65 A grant only transfers what the grantor may lawfully give.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [verb (transitive)] > artistic treatment or style > types of
chargea1806
daguerreotype1839
transfer1839
conventionalize1854
archaize1906
schematize1908
1839 A. Ure 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.
1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (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’.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. 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.
Derivatives
transferred adj. /-ˈfɜːd/ 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.
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the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > transferred
transmigrate1430
transumpt1495
moved1605
transferred1863
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > adjective > [noun] > epithet > transferred
transferred epithet1863
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative
figurative14..
figural?a1500
translated1511
figurate1548
tropological1555
metaphorical1563
tropical1565
tropic1569
translate1582
allusory1587
translative1589
allusive1593
metaphoric1597
transumptive1597
transferent1614
translatitious1637
analogic1638
tralatitious1645
parabolic1696
tropologic1796
transitive1810
transferred1863
1863 H. Allon Mem. J. Sherman 279 102 members were added in 1839 and 63 in 1840, including transferred members.
1866 A. Bain Eng. Composit. & 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.’
1883 N.E.D. I. Gen. Explan. p. xxi The word was first taken into English..in a figurative, transferred, or specialized use.
1886 J. W. Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads VI. 165 As a transferred ballad, Dulcina was entered to John White and Thomas Langley, in the Registers of the Stationers' Company.
1947 C. Brooks Well Wrought Urn ix. 159 One can..justify the adjective as a transferred epithet on the model of Vergil's maestum timorem.
1958 C. Brooke-Rose Gram. Metaphor iii. 57 I have not found this transferred epithet in the later texts.
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