v (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
v (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
v (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
v (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
v (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
v (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
n (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
n (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
n (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
n (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
n (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
n A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
n (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.
n (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
n (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
n (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
n (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
n (US, Canada, varsity sports) Short for transfer student. [A student who transfers from one university / college to another after studying there for a term / semester or more]