convert
IPA: kˈɑnvɝt
noun
- A person who has converted to a religion.
- A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
- Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
- (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
verb
- (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
- (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
- (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
- (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
- (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- (intransitive) To become converted.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
- (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
- (transitive, cricket) 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.
- (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- (transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
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Examples of "convert" in Sentences
- The voltage dropped due to the converter.
- I've converted the remainder of the banners.
- The processing of biomass converts it to diesel.
- Christian converts were the focus of the inquisition.
- He returned to the UK and converted to the Hurricane.
- The granary was converted to residential accommodation.
- In the 1980s the building was converted into condominiums.
- At the end of the dialogue, the Cathar bishop is converted.
- A brace for converting an extension ladder into a stepladder.
- Another unpopular change was the removal of the voltage converter.