Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Transfer; transference.

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  • noun a transfer, especially the making over of legal title or ownership to another

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Examples

  • One particularly foolish but common notion concerning aphrodisiacs is the idea of a transferal of heat: that if you rub on something biting or irritating, external will translate into internal heat.

    A Conversation with Jack Turner 2010

  • If online "readers" are so averse to language, why won't they just eventually gravitate entirely to purely visual communication or entertainment, as has happened already in the transferal of interest from books to film and television?

    Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

  • This experience gave me insights into the benefits and challenges of different forms of knowledge-transferal and communication.

    Global Voices in English » A Guide to Blogging about Life with HIV/AIDS 2009

  • He recently talked about his writing process, discussed what works for him, adding great snapshots to his post of everything from his hand written notebooks, to his transferal of notes to his Mac, then his outlining and drafting, which differ according project-to-project.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Jayf 2010

  • He recently talked about his writing process, discussed what works for him, adding great snapshots to his post of everything from his hand written notebooks, to his transferal of notes to his Mac, then his outlining and drafting, which differ according project-to-project.

    A great post of one author's writing process: Antony Johnston Jayf 2010

  • The introduction of MIDI technology exhibits a single stroke of key, control wheel motion, pedal transferal, or a citation from a microcomputer to prompt every device in the studio collectively and in sync; simultaneously having each device corresponding according to the state planned by the composer.

    Sound enthusiasts: Insight on MIDI sequencers 2009

  • Do you think the transferal of copyright will continue at a time when an artist has more direct licensing opportunities, like one-shot television uses, etc.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Connell and his associates may have compromised the presidential election in Ohio in 2004 by inserting a computer, among other tactics, into the Ohio secretary of state's vote information transferal system.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Will Monday testimony from this Bush/McCain computer expert reveal 2004 Ohio vote tampering? 2008

  • The economic side is not just the enormous skewing of the labor supply/demand curve and not just the blowout transferal of tax dollars from working class Americans to non-working Mexican criminals, but the the transferal of vast American resources to the tower of Mexican political corruption.

    Sound Politics: Post-Thanksgiving Turkey 2006

  • The economic side is not just the enormous skewing of the labor supply/demand curve and not just the blowout transferal of tax dollars from working class Americans to non-working Mexican criminals, but the the transferal of vast American resources to the tower of Mexican political corruption.

    Sound Politics: Post-Thanksgiving Turkey 2006

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