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convert

UK /kənˈvɜːt/US /kənˈvɝt/

verb 19
/ˈkɑn.vɚt/ noun 4
forms 5

verb19

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To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- A kettle converts water into steam.
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To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- He converted his garden into a tennis court.
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To become converted.
- The chair converts into a bed.
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To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
- They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
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To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- We've converted to Methodism.
To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
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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.
- How do you convert feet into metres?
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To exchange for something of equal value.
- We converted our pounds into euros.
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To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- Flood converted to leave Wales with a 23-9 deficit going into the final quarter. — 2011
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To score extra points following a touchdown.
- Bass also kicked field goals of 40 and 49 yards, but he also missed a point-after try, which led to a 2-point conversion that the Bills converted later in the game. — 2024
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To score (especially a penalty kick).
- Hinton, inevitably, converted the penalty. — 2011
To score a spare.
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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.
- Gillespie was reminded he had promised to join team-mate Matthew Hayden in a nude lap of the ground if he converted his century into a double. — 2006
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To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- On the final day Marshall won a pawn as Black from another old rival, Hodges, but couldn't convert it and played on until a drawn king-and-pawn endgame. — 1994
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To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- Each time a user clicks on one of your adverts, you will be charged the bid amount whether the user converts or not.
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To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- The grand jury claims Terrigno "knowingly converted, for the benefit of herself and others, federal funds, which were intended to help the poor and homeless in the Los Angeles area." — 1985
To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
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(no longer used) To cause to turn; to turn.
- O, which way shall I first convert myself? — 1600
(no longer used) To turn into another language; to translate.

convert

UK /ˈkɒn.vət/US /ˈkɑn.vɚt/

noun4

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A person who has converted to a religion.
- They were all converts to Islam.
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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!
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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. — 1911
The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

forms

converted · converting · converteth · converts · convertest

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