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Convert   /kˈɑnvərt/  /kənvˈərt/   Listen
Convert

verb
(past & past part. converted; pres. part. converting)
1.
Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy.  Synonym: change over.
2.
Change the nature, purpose, or function of something.  "Convert hotels into jails" , "Convert slaves to laborers"
3.
Change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief.
4.
Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.  Synonyms: change, commute, exchange.  "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"
5.
Cause to adopt a new or different faith.
6.
Score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone.
7.
Complete successfully.
8.
Score (a spare).
9.
Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something.  Synonyms: convince, win over.
10.
Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.  Synonyms: commute, exchange.
11.
Change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change.
noun
1.
A person who has been converted to another religious or political belief.



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"Convert" Quotes from Famous Books



... garden where the gay pretty girl had held her little court, and queened it over the grave, silent man. It was a thousand to one on his falling under the spell. The mischief of it was that he had expected the marriage ceremony to convert a butterfly into a staid, parochial wife. John Courtney Merrivale had a thousand virtues, but imagination was not ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... become, literally, as threadbare as that of a grenadier of the Empire? But the vidame had an influence on Monsieur de Maulincour's destiny which obliges us to preserve his portrait; he lectured the young man after his fashion, and did his best to convert him to the doctrines of the great ...
— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac
... aliment absolutely incalculable." On the contrary, the close-feeding sheep and the cow and ox utilize for man millions of acres of vegetation which would otherwise be useless. The domestic animals which everywhere accompany civilized man were a part of them intended as machines to convert herbage into milk and flesh for man's sustenance. The tame villatic fowl scratches and picks with might and main, converting a thousand refuse things into dainty human food. A vegetable diet is ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various
... transmute, shift, modulate, reverse, reform, vary, modify, convert, transform, transpose, transfer, exchange, substitute, commute. Antonyms: continue, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... winter nights. After his sister's tragic death it had been driven home by Bible texts and by a solemn oath of vengeance. Was it likely that anything she could say would have weight with him? For the present the girl gave up her resolve to convert him to a ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine


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