Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which transfers; an implement used in transferring something.
- noun Specifically One who makes a transfer or conveyance.
- noun In an air-pump, a base-plate for a receiver, by means of which it can be withdrawn from the pump when exhausted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes a transfer or conveyance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who, or thing that
transfers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who transfers something
Etymologies
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Examples
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The USB port acts as both the data transferrer, and the bracelet clasp.
PQI’s 64GB solid state hard drive looks to replace disk drives 2007
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Then proofs are made, which serve as a guide to the lithographer during the progress of his work, and finally as a guide to the transferrer and to the printer.
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These are of the utmost importance to the prover, and finally to the transferrer, who prepares the work for the press, as without them it would be impossible to register one color over the other in its proper place.
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Probably Miss Freer, subject to thought transference, and yet a thought transferrer, as she is, was interested in the effect on Miss "K." of the Catholic maid-servant.
Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men John William Harris
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Freer, who is liable to thought transfer, and is a good transferrer herself.
Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men John William Harris
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Within recent years the price has risen considerably, and as much as 95,000 gold dollars has been paid to the transferrer.
America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat Tingfang Wu 1882
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A new member who is admitted by transfer pays an initiation fee of 2,000 gold dollars, in addition to a large fee to the transferrer, for his "seat in the House".
America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat Tingfang Wu 1882
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He coolly took postage of all way-letters as his perquisite; was a money carrier and transferrer, all advantage to his own pocket; carried merchandise; returned horses for travellers; and when Finlay saw him he was waiting for a yoke of oxen he was paid for fetching along some miles.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The term during which a thing is held. transferrer n.
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