Transferring
[træns'fɝ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transfer
Typist: Nicholas
Examples
- The method most commonly practiced in working with apple trees is called bud-grafting, and consists of transferring a plate of bark, with one or more buds attached, from one tree to another. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is also valuable for transferring figures in embroidery and taking impressions of leaves for herbariums, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Hence, it became necessary to invent a system of conveyors that would be capable of transferring this mass of material from one place to another. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All our reasonings concerning the probability of causes are founded on the transferring of past to future. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This instrument, many years afterward, was applied by me for transferring messages from one wire to any other wire simultaneously, or after any interval of time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This beautiful and valuable process of transferring photographs in plain or colored work has been taught at high prices under various high-sounding names, such as Roman art, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The pictures produced by the collodion process are negatives, which serve admirably for transferring positive pictures on to sensitive paper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Mr. Bucket lost no time in transferring this paper, with the dexterity of a conjuror, from Mr. Smallweed to Mr. Jarndyce. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The idea then suggested itself of transferring, on to stone, letters written with lithographic ink upon paper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- There were a dozen easels in the room, and as many artists transferring the great picture to their canvases. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This is done by cutting the film square, as seen in Fig. 210, and then peeling it off the glass, as seen at Fig. 211, and transferring it to another glass plate in reversed relation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Nicholas