convert
Significat (anglès)
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- To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
- To exchange for something of equal value.
- To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- 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.
- To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- To score (especially a penalty kick).
- To score a spare.
- To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- To become converted.
- (obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
- To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- (obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
- 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.
- To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
Sinònims
switch over
be transformed
change into
be transfigured
change state
swing about
throw a switch
turn off
to change
latinise
become changed
swing around
barter away
devolve
modification
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/kənˈvɜːt/
Etimologia (anglès)
From Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).
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