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
- Presumption in the convert is as grieving to the Spirit as despair.
- 'Perhaps "convert" is hardly the word,' said Vida, with ironic mouth.
- FROM {$convert - src_table_prefix} messages m, {$convert-src_table_prefix} topics t
- Pretending to be a convert is a very old and dishonest trick, I for one am not falling for it.
- My username might fool you, but I'm a new convert to Unix/open-source ... but I'm an _HONEST convert_.
- REPLACE (convert (varchar (8), getdate () ,112) +'_'+convert (varchar (8), getdate () ,114), ':', '') + '. sql
- Churches can be effective in teaching people how to convert from a culture of borrowing and spending to a culture of saving and investing.
- Select all function smf_topic_has_poll ($topic_id) if ($topic_id = = 0) return 0; global $db, $src_db, $same_db, $convert; return ($convert-row [ 'id_poll']!
- That is because after reversing, the investor could again convert the traditional IRA into a Roth IRA and only have to pay taxes on those lower valued assets.
- A business may decide it wants to go public for a variety of reasons, and after the decision to convert is made, the additional choice of how to go public must be considered.
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