convert

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

convert

past (v2)

converted

past participle (v3)

converted

present participle

converting

3rd person singular

converts

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

converts

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

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

   • A kettle converts water into steam.
   • Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.

2. 2.To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.

   • He converted his garden into a tennis court.

3. 3.To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).

   • No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
   • They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
   • One old chap on a huge slotting machine was intensely religious and made great efforts to convert every young man who came his way.

4. 4.To exchange for something of equal value.

   • We converted our pounds into euros.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.

   • I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!

2. 2.The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

3. 3.A person who has converted to a religion.

   • They were all converts to Islam.
   • While still in this relationship, Greene, a convert to Roman Catholicism at 23, was asked to be godfather to Catherine Walston, a 30-year-old married woman, at her own conversion.

4. 4.Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.

   • A great advantage of these temporary conversions of a man into a beast is that it enables the convert in his animal shape to pay out his enemy without being suspected.

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