convert
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *wert-
Proto-Indo-European *wértetor
Proto-Italic *wertō
Proto-Italic *komwertō
Latin convertōder.
Old French convertirbor.
Middle English converten
English convert
From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).
Inflected forms:
form: converts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: converting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: converted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: converted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: converts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A kettle converts water into steam.
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
if the whole atmosphere were converted into water
That ſtill leſſens / The ſorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
gloss: To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And the deff's further sayen that after the said b'gayn the said lambert compounded wt the said lychefeld ffor the moytie of the said Tymber stone glasse yren and tyle aforsaid by fforce whereof the said Lambert and Jane executrix of the testament of the said Thom's lychefeld haue broken and pulled down the stone walles & wyndoes of the said Churche dortr ffratr & cloyster & the same hath taken prceved & convertid to their p'per vses and behofe as lawfull was for the[m] to do by vertue of there said b'gayne & waraunt. All whiche mattrs the said def's ar redy to averre & p've as this hon'able cort shall award. And praye to be dysmyssed wt there resonable costs & charges for ther wrongfull vexac'on & trouble in this behalf.
He converted his garden into a tennis court.
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…].
gloss: To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
How little chance, then, should I have against one whose brain was supernaturally sharpened, and who had two thousand years of experience, besides all manner of knowledge of the secrets of Nature at her command! Feeling that she would be more likely to convert me than I should to convert her, I thought it best to leave the matter alone, and so sat silent.
One old chap on a huge slotting machine was intensely religious and made great efforts to convert every young man who came his way.
gloss: To exchange for something of equal value.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We converted our pounds into euros.
gloss: To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How do you convert feet into metres?
gloss: To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The grand jury claims Terrigno "knowingly converted, for the benefit of herself and others, federal funds, which were intended to help the poor and homeless in the Los Angeles area."
gloss: To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Flood converted to leave Wales with a 23-9 deficit going into the final quarter.
gloss: To score extra points following a touchdown.
pos: verb
examples: Bass also kicked field goals of 40 and 49 yards, but he also missed a point-after try, which led to a 2-point conversion that the Bills converted later in the game.
gloss: To score (especially a penalty kick).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Hinton, inevitably, converted the penalty.
However, the lead was doubled after the break, when Branislav Ivanovic converted from close range after Fernando Torres had flicked on.
This time Polish goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski was Saints' penalty shootout hero, saving three spot kicks before centre-back Wayne Thomas converted from 12 yards to seal a 6-5 win.
gloss: To score a spare.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We've converted to Methodism.
The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.
gloss: To become converted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The chair converts into a bed.
gloss: To cause to turn; to turn.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: O, which way shall I first convert myself?
gloss: To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To turn into another language; to translate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: which story[…]Catullus more elegantly converted
gloss: To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Gillespie was reminded he had promised to join team-mate Matthew Hayden in a nude lap of the ground if he converted his century into a double.
gloss: To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Each time a user clicks on one of your adverts, you will be charged the bid amount whether the user converts or not.
gloss: To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: On the final day Marshall won a pawn as Black from another old rival, Hodges, but couldn't convert it and played on until a drawn king-and-pawn endgame.
In a serious game, the same event often takes place: the attacking side, out of pure inertia, tries to convert an advantage which he or she no longer has, thus giving the defending side winning chances.
Black has survived the attack and is better due to his active king! Many moves later, he converted.
gloss: A person who has converted to a religion.
pos: noun
examples: They were all converts to Islam.
While still in this relationship, Greene, a convert to Roman Catholicism at 23, was asked to be godfather to Catherine Walston, a 30-year-old married woman, at her own conversion.
gloss: A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
pos: noun
examples: I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!
gloss: Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
pos: noun
examples: A great advantage of these temporary conversions of a man into a beast is that it enables the convert in his animal shape to pay out his enemy without being suspected.
gloss: The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
Synonyms: convert
develop
draw
evolve
metamorphize
metamorphose
reconvert
shift
transfigurate
transfigure
transform
transmogrify
transmute
transume
Antonyms: deconvert
restore
revert
Related words: conversion
proselytize
Derived words: bioconvert
convertance
convertase
convertee
converter
convertible
convertor
downconvert
downconversion
downconverter
immunoconvert
interconvert
misconvert
phenoconvert
photoconvert
preach to the converted
preconvert
seroconvert
unconvert
upconvert
upconversion
upconverter
reconvert
passion of a convert
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