Convert

Quick meaning: Convert is a verb meaning (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

Meaning

(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
2. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
3. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
4. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
5. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
6. (ambitransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

A kettle converts water into steam.

He converted his garden into a tennis court.

They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.

That ſtill leſſens / The ſorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.

Word Forms

• converts
• converting
• converted

Synonyms for convert

Depending on context, synonyms include develop, draw, evolve, metamorphize, metamorphose, reconvert.

Antonyms for convert

Common opposites include restore, revert.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include change over, change, exchange, turn, convince, commute.

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