transform
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trāns-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?
Latin fōrma
Latin fōrmō
Latin transformo
Old French transformer
Middle French transfourmerbor.
Middle English transformen
English transform
From Middle English transformen, from Old French transformer, from Latin transformo, transformare, from trans (“across”, preposition) + forma (“form”).
Inflected forms:
form: transforms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transforming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transformed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transformed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: xform
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: transforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: xform
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To change greatly the appearance or form of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
Love may transform me to an oyster.
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].
Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.
gloss: To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
gloss: To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To subject to the action of a transformer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To subject (a cell) to transformation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To undergo a transformation; to change in appearance or character.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: An operation (often an integration) that converts one function into another.
pos: noun
gloss: A function so produced.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A transform fault.
pos: noun
Related words: transformation
transformative
transformable
transformance
transformant
transformate
transformational
transformed
transformer
transforming
transformism
transformist
transformity
Derived words: antitransform
backtransform
biotransform
cotransform
detransform
electrotransform
mistransform
nontransforming
phototransform
retransform
supertransform
transflection
transformability
transformer
transfur
untransform
black top-hat transform
Borel transform
bottom-hat transform
Box-Muller transform
Burrows-Wheeler transform
continuous wavelet transform
discrete Fourier transform
discrete transform
discrete wavelet transform
fast Fourier transform
Fourier-Mukai transform
Fourier transform
fractal transform
Gabor transform
Hadamard transform
Hartley transform
hit-or-miss transform
Hough transform
integral transform
inverse Fourier transform
Laplace transform
Mellin transform
Mojette transform
Penrose transform
Radon transform
top-hat transform
transform and roll out
Walsh transform
white top-hat transform
Z-transform
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