Word Finder - convert

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A person who has converted to a religion.

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They were all converts to Islam.

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A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.

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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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The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

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

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A kettle converts water into steam.

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

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He converted his garden into a tennis court.

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To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).

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They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.

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To exchange for something of equal value.

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We converted our pounds into euros.

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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.

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How do you convert feet into metres?

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To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.

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(rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

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To score (especially a penalty kick).

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(ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.

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To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).

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We’ve converted to Methodism.

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To become converted.

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The chair converts into a bed.

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To cause to turn; to turn.

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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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To turn into another language; to translate.

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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.

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To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.

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Each time a user clicks on one of your adverts, you will be charged the bid amount whether the user converts or not.

She'd not yet figured out how to convert their measures of distance to miles.

According to Christian writers, he was a convert to Christianity.

Hopefully that would convert to chores done on time without prompting.

This is the ideal way to convert glucose into energy.

Christian convert was his unanimous call by the Christian people to the head of the church in Carthage, at the end of 248 or beginning of 249.

He then journeyed to Wittenberg, where he was advised by Martin Luther to cast aside the senseless rules of his order, to marry, and to convert Prussia into an hereditary duchy for himself.

Oxidizing agents convert anthracene into anthraquinone; the production of this substance by oxidizing anthracene in glacial acetic acid solution, with chromic acid, is the usual method employed for the estimation of anthracene.

Renewable energy systems capture energy from the sun, wind or the earth's heat and convert them into usable electricity.

Though we can convert the whole of the energy possessed by any mechanical system into heat, it is not in our power to perform the inverse operation, and to utilize the whole of the heat in doing mechanical work.

This time she determined to make sure of her convert.

One of the most common alterations made to older houses with pitched roofing is to convert the loft space into a habitable living space.

I shall convert British pounds sterling into gold roubles at a rate of ten gold roubles to one pound sterling.

A large sheet and a few sandbags convert the slope into a bedroom.

I have also heard of an adaptor to fit a 4 1/2 " grinder that would convert it to a mini belt sander.

The oldest cat on record was said to be 35 years old; which would convert to about 157 years old in human years.

You can easily convert any spot into extra sleeping space for when you have a houseful.

The line of circuit passed through the secondary of the induction coil I to the line, from that to the telephone T at the receiving station, 'See Journal of the Telegraph, New York, April 1877; Philadelphia Times, 9th July 1877; and Scientific American, August 181 This term was used by Wheatstone in 1827 for an acoustic apparatus intended to convert very feeble into audible sounds; see his Scientific Papers, p. 32.

Bridges Adams, the intention being by " fishing " the joints to convert the rails into continuous beams. In the original design two chairs were placed, one under each rail, a few inches apart, as in fig.

He strove, with a success disastrous to the Portuguese empire, to convert the government in Goa into a proselytizing agency.

In middle age he became a convert to Christianity, and about 306 he went to Gaul (Treves) on the invitation of Constantine the Great, and became tutor to his eldest son, Crispus.

Most of the attributes listed above have an analog in convert.

Then convert the day of birth to a single digit or master number.

He taught rhetoric at Rome (one of his pupils being Jerome), and in his old age became a convert to Christianity.

He subsequently professed himself a convert to the Anglican Church, and published a number of works, but was more esteemed for his ability than for his moral character.

Even the Dominicans, who began as a preaching order to convert heretics, soon became persecutors.

Salt is added in the roasting to convert any lime, magnesia or lead which may be present, into the corresponding chlorides.

There is a considerable area under vines, but it is generally more profitable to sell the fruit as grapes than to convert it into wine.

His zeal prompted him to undertake an embassy to the king of Ethiopia, in order to stimulate him against the converts whom he had taken under his protection, but he returned a convert to the Mahommedan faith and joined the fugitive prophet at Medina.

These elements will enable us to convert, by a simple arithmetical operation, any historical date, of which the chronological characters are given according to any era whatever, into the corresponding date in the Christian era.

One of them, "John Fisher," who had his sphere at Oxford, succeeded in making a convert of young Chillingworth, and prevailed upon him to go to the Jesuit college at Douai.

Hence "to cash" means to convert cheques and other negotiable instruments into coin.

Since 1851 it has been known that all sea-water has an alkaline reaction, and Torniie defined the alkalinity of sea-water as the amount of carbonic acid which is necessary to convert the excess of bases into normal carbonate.

He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin.

In 1703 a Mussulman convert of the Gond tribe held the country, and in 1743 Raghoji Bhonsla, the Mahratta ruler of Berar, annexed it to his dominions.

He was born of heathen parents at Tabatha near Gaza about 290; he was sent to Alexandria for his education and there became a convert to Christianity; about 306 he visited St Anthony and became his disciple, embracing the eremitical life.

It is, however, more simple to convert it into a single right trapezium.

It was decided, however, by the Austrian financial authorities that the obligation of the Austro-Hungarian Bank to convert its notes into gold on demand should remain suspended as hitherto, owing to fear lest the renewal of the obligation of the bank to cash its notes in gold should lead to a rise in the rate of interest.

He first fell in with some proselytizers of the Roman faith at Confignon in Savoy, and by them he was sent to Madame de Warens at Annecy, a young and pretty widow who was herself a convert.

Christianity was essentially a proselytizing religion, not content to appeal simply to one class or race of people, and to be one among many faiths, but believing in the falsity or insufficiency of all others and eager to convert the whole world.

There are no permanent rivers; but during the rainy season, from August to October, heavy floods convert the water-courses in the hollows of the mountains into broad and rapid streams. Numerous wells supply the wants of the people and their cattle.

Clement's familiarity with the Old Testament points to his being a Christian of long standing rather than a recent convert.

Thompson, trained Philip Quaque, said to be " the first convert who ever received ordination since the Reformation in the Reformed Church."

In 1813 he was joined by a colleague, William Milne, and in 1814 baptized his first convert.

These operate by electrostatic induction and convert mechanical work into electrostatic energy by the aid of a small initial charge which is continually being replenished or reinforced.

Dilute alkalis convert it into paraxyloquinone.

Among the enzymes already extracted from fungi are invertases (yeasts, moulds, &c.), which split cane-sugar and other complex sugars with hydrolysis into simpler sugars such as dextrose and levulose; diastases, which convert starches into sugars (Aspergillus, &c.); cytases, which dissolve cellulose similarly (Botrytis, &c.); peptases, using the term as a general one for all enzymes which convert proteids into peptones and other bodies (Penicillium, &c.); lipases, which break up fatty oils (Empusa, Phycomyces, &c.); oxydases, which bring about the oxidations and changes of colour observed in Boletus, and zymase, extracted by Buchner from yeast, which brings about the conversion of sugar into alcohol and carbondioxide.

Moreover, the coals which deoxidized the iron would inevitably carburize some lumps of it, here so far as to turn it into the brittle and relatively useless cast iron, there only far enough to convert it into steel, strong and very useful even in its unhardened state.

In time the smith learnt how to convert this unwelcome product into wrought iron by remelting it in the forge, exposing it to the blast in such a way as to burn out most of its carbon.

Concentrated acids convert them into the isomeric nitro-amines, the - NO 2 group going into the nucleus in the orthoor paraposition to the amine nitrogen; this appears to indicate that the compounds are nitramines.

Halogen acids convert it into monohalogen fatty acids, and the halogens themselves convert it into dihalogen fatty acids.