{
  "id": "transferred.exchange",
  "term": "transferred",
  "sense": "exchange",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "language",
  "domain": "action",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a thing is given and put into a new place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "give.transfer",
      "put.placement",
      "given.premise",
      "new.recent",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "The act of giving transfers possession while the act of placing assigns a new spatial location, together effecting relocation.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relocation across space",
      "change of possession",
      "arrival in new context"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake shifted Japan's coastline by 4 meters, moving land into the Pacific Ocean.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1977, the Soviet Union transferred 1.5 million books from Leningrad's public libraries to state archives.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Ethereum blockchain recorded 1,247 ETH transferred from wallet 0x74... to 0x8a... during the 2020 DeFi surge.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "motion.movement",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "gift.present",
    "purchase.economic",
    "trade.economic",
    "wireless.electrical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "transfer",
    "transferred",
    "transferring",
    "transfers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete; added omitted constitutive concepts to align with intended meaning."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-transferred.exchange"
}