convert

(Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
2. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
3. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
4. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
5. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
6. (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.
7. (transitive) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
8. (ambitransitive) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
9. To score extra points following a touchdown.
10. (intransitive, transitive) To score (especially a penalty kick).
11. (intransitive) To score a spare.
12. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
13. (intransitive) To become converted.
14. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to turn; to turn.
15. (transitive) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
16. (obsolete, transitive) To turn into another language; to translate.
17. (transitive) 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.
18. (intransitive) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
19. (ambitransitive) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.

Noun

1. A person who has converted to a religion.
2. A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
3. Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
4. (Canadian) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kənˈvɜːt/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).

Sinonieme

change

transform

alter

exchange

proselyte

turn

transmute

amend

commute

proselytize

shift

vary

evangelize

reduce

metamorphose

transubstantiate

modify

switch

transfigure

switch over

remodel

change over

proselytise

translate

rebuild

replace

reconstruct

turn back

believer

turn into

convince

turn away

treat

transition

turn around

win over

renew

remold

remould

adjust

reform

swap

do

divert

bring over

reorganize

neophyte

make

process

be transformed

Vertalings

convertir

convertire

converter

convertir

umwandeln

transformer

cambiar

convertito

convertir

veranderen

converso

verwandeln

commutare

ändern

trasformare

Sinne

John Held Jr . 's maternal grandfather , James Evans , was an English convert to Mormonism .