To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.
To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed.
To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone.
The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another.
The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise.
That which is transferred.
A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another.
A pathological process by virtue of 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.
A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts.
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
To change the clothing of; - used reflexively.
To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
To divide; to distribute.
To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; - used in the various senses of the transitive verb.
To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
To practice indirect or evasive methods.
To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; - said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
The act of shifting.
Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.