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transfer
Verb
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If you transfer (something), you move (it) to a different place.
After he became the top salesman he was transferred to the head office.
If you learn to be organized in the classroom, then you can transfer that skill to your career later on.
We dug up the tree and transferred it to the front of the house.
transfer
Noun
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A transfer is the act of transferring something from one form to another.
International trades involve the transfer of currency from one country to another.
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A transfer is the act of moving something from one location to another.
You will get a transfer at the third stop.
by
Preposition
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near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
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at some time before (the given time).
Be back by ten o'clock!
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if something is done by somebody, it is done through their action
The matter was decided by the chairman.
The boat was swamped by the water.
He was protected by his body armour.
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if something is created by somebody, they are the creator, author, etc.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare.
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shows how someone does something
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
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using the rules or logic of.
I sorted the items by category.
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with a change of. In this case, by shows how much something has changed.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
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shows how slowly, or how quickly, someone does something (used in the form "X by X" or "by Xs")
We went through the book page by page.
We crawled forward by inches.
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If you multiply mathx/math by mathy/math, you multiply mathx/math × mathy/math.
Five multiplied by seven is 35.
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If you divide mathx/math by mathy/math, you find how many mathy/maths are in mathx/math.
35 divided by seven is five.
indorsement
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noun
(= endorsement)
the act of endorsing
a star athlete can make a lot of money from endorsements
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noun
(= endorsement)
a signature that validates something
the cashier would not cash the check without an endorsement
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noun
(= blurb)
a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)
the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book
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noun
(= second)
a speech seconding a motion
do I hear a second?
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noun
(= endorsement)
formal and explicit approval
a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement