conversion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
business
chemistry
computing
engineering
football
games
hobbies
human-sciences
law
lifestyle
linguistics
logic
marketing
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
rugby
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.
Inflected forms:
form: conversions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of converting something or someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His conversion to Christianity
The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
Artificial conversion of water into ice.
gloss: A software product converted from one platform to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
gloss: A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the conversion of a horse
Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.
gloss: Living space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a loft conversion
He might even sleep informally: in his vehicle, in a garage-conversion apartment, or beneath a freeway overpass, any of which would be rendered part of the informal landscape by his very act of sleeping.
An eccentric artist friend of mine lives in a loft conversion that features a lot of unusual brickwork and glass ornamentation.
Betternest says a cellar conversion could add around 25 per cent to your home's value.
gloss: The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions
gloss: Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Synonyms: conversion
development
metamorphosis
transfiguration
transfigurement
transformation
transmogrification
transmutation
sea change
Antonyms: deconversion
restoration
reversion
Related words: convert
penalty
zero derivation
paradigm shift
quantum leap
shapeshifting
step change
seed change
Derived words: alpha conversion
anticonversion
autoconversion
backfile conversion
bioconversion
cardioconversion
coconversion
conversional
conversionary
conversion course
conversion disorder
conversionless
conversion mod
conversion rate
conversion therapy
conversion van
Damascene conversion
deathbed conversion
deconversion
downconversion
eta conversion
geroconversion
hydroconversion
immunoconversion
interconversion
internal conversion
laparoconversion
metric conversion
misconversion
multiconversion
narrowing conversion
nonconversion
Pauline conversion
phenoconversion
photoconversion
postconversion
preconversion
pyroconversion
reconversion
retroconversion
seroconversion
stereoconversion
teleconversion
thermoconversion
total conversion
total conversion mod
two-point conversion
type conversion
unconversion
upconversion
widening conversion
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: обръщане
roman: obrǎštane
lang: Bulgarian
word: превръщане
roman: prevrǎštane
lang: Dutch
word: bekering
lang: Esperanto
word: konverto
lang: Estonian
word: muundamine
lang: Finnish
word: käännyttäminen
lang: Finnish
word: muunnos
lang: Finnish
word: muuntaminen
lang: Finnish
word: kääntäminen
lang: French
word: conversion
lang: Galician
word: conversión
lang: German
word: Umwandlung
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃
roman: gawandeins
lang: Greek
word: μεταστροφή
roman: metastrofí
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐπιστροφή
roman: epistrophḗ
lang: Hebrew
word: המרת דת
roman: hamarat dat
lang: Hungarian
word: átalakítás
lang: Hungarian
word: átváltás
lang: Hungarian
word: konvertálás
lang: Hungarian
word: konverzió
lang: Hungarian
word: átalakulás
lang: Hungarian
word: áttérés
lang: Hungarian
word: betérés
lang: Hungarian
word: megtérés
lang: Irish
word: tiontú
lang: Isoko
word: sta
lang: Italian
word: conversione
lang: Japanese
word: 改宗
roman: kaishū
lang: Māori
word: whakatahuritanga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: konvertering
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: konvertering
lang: Polish
word: konwersja
lang: Polish
word: adaptacja
lang: Portuguese
word: conversão
lang: Romanian
word: transformare
lang: Romanian
word: conversiune
lang: Romanian
word: conversie
lang: Romanian
word: prefacere
lang: Romanian
word: convertire
lang: Russian
word: превраще́ние
roman: prevraščénije
lang: Russian
word: обраще́ние
roman: obraščénije
lang: Russian
word: конве́рсия
roman: konvérsija
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: iompachadh
lang: Spanish
word: conversión
lang: Telugu
word: మార్పిడి
roman: mārpiḍi
lang: Turkish
word: çevirim
lang: Turkish
word: dönüşüm
lang: Turkish
word: dönüştürüm
lang: Turkish
word: komütasyon
lang: Turkish
word: konversiyon
lang: Turkish
word: tahavvül
lang: Turkish
word: tahvil
lang: Zazaki
word: tadayış