transfer

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
transfer

▶verb /transˈfəː/ /trɑːns-, -nz-/ (transfers, transferring, transferred)

• 1 move from one place to another.

• 2 move to another department, occupation, team, etc.

  ■ redirect (a telephone call) to a new line or extension.

• 3 change to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey.

• 4 make over the possession of (property, a right, or a responsibility) to another.

• 5 (usu. as adj. transferred) change (the sense of a word or phrase) by extension or metaphor.

▶noun /ˈtransfəː, ˈtrɑːns-, -nz-/ 

• 1 an act of transferring.

• 2 Brit. a small coloured picture or design on paper, which can be transferred to another surface by being pressed or heated.

• 3 N. Amer. a ticket allowing a passenger to change from one public transport vehicle to another as part of a single journey.

– derivatives
transferability noun,
transferable adjective,
transferee noun,
transferor noun (chiefly Law),
transferral noun,
transferrer noun.

– origin ME: from Fr. transférer or L. transferre, from trans- ‘across’ + ferre ‘to bear’.