Word Finder - converts

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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.

Concentrated hydrochloric acid converts it into oxamide.

Photosynthesis is what converts lightenergy from the sun into chemical energy for plants.

Potash solution converts it into a mixture of potassium cyanide and cyanate.

When emperors became converts, the church, so lately a victim and a pleader for liberty, readily learned to persecute.

Diazomethane converts it into the methyl derivatives of isocyanic acid, and nitramide, NH2N02.

The Buddha himself is stated in the books to have devoted to it the very first discourse he addressed to the first converts.'

Every relaxation of the old thoroughgoing position was welcomed and supported by converts only half converted.

Kyan's process, patented in 1832, consists in impregnating the timber with corrosive sublimate which, acting on the albumen in the wood, converts it into an indecomposable substance.

Prince Nicholas Esterhazy and Paul Rakoczy were among his converts.

The Oxford converts (1845 and later) added considerably to Wiseman's responsibilities, as many of them found themselves wholly without means, while the old Catholic body looked on the newcomers with distrust.

But many difficulties with his own people shortly beset his path, due largely to the suspicions aroused by his evident preference for the ardent Roman zeal of the converts, and especially of Manning, to the dull and cautious formalism of the old Catholics.

It is adequate to its presumed purpose of offering to distant Gentile converts a clear account of their Master's earthly work, and of the causes which led to His rejection by His own people and to His death by Roman crucifixion.

While the needs of Jewish believers were amply met by St Matthew's Gospel, a like service was rendered to Gentile converts by a very different writer.

The first protestant missionaries (those under the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews), settled in Jerusalem in 1823; to them is due the inception of the trade in olive-wood articles, invented for the support of their converts.

With repeated hammering, drawing out and annealing, it gains much in strength and toughness, and the addition of a very minute quantity of carbon converts it into steel, less tough, but of the keenest hardness.

Phosphorus pentachloride converts them into alkyl chlorides, a similar decomposition taking place when they are heated with the haloid acids.

The deputation became zealous converts, and on their return converted their countrymen.

The Mahommedans of India may be divided into two classes, pure Mahommedans from the Mogul and Pathan conquering races, and Mahommedan converts, who differ very little from the surrounding Hindu population from which they originally sprang.

Though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for, and after it all, and after the crusade, the population still remained at heart Albigensian.

Hillel also inculcated the duty of making converts to Judaism.

The attempt to introduce a new faith led to renewed strife, this time between converts and pagans, but King George (who fully appreciated the value of intercourse with foreigners) supported the missionaries, and by 1852 the rebels were subdued.

It seems probable that his parents were among the early converts of Wesley; at any rate, Francis became converted to Methodism in his thirteenth year, and at sixteen became a local preacher.

When he landed in Philadelphia in October 1771, the converts to Methodism, which had been introduced into the colonies only three years before, numbered scarcely 300.

The greatest testimony to the work that earned for him the title of the "Father of American Methodism" was the growth of the denomination from a few scattered bands of about 300 converts and 4 preachers in 1771, to a thoroughly organized church of 214,000 members and more than 2000 ministers at his death, which occurred at Spottsylvania, Virginia, on the 31st of March 1816.

His conversion apparently took place at Ephesus; there, at any rate, he places his decisive interview with the old man, and there he had those discussions with Jews and converts to Judaism, the results of which he in later years set down in his Dialogue.

This theory of disease disappeared sooner than did the belief in possession; the energumens (EVEp-yoiwEvoc) of the early Christian church, who were under the care of a special clerical order of exorcists, testify to a belief in possession; but the demon theory of disease receives no recognition; the energumens find their analogues in the converts of missionaries in China, Africa and elsewhere.

The Kaffir chief who had accompanied him to England joined the enemy; and many of his converts showed that his efforts on their behalf had effected no change in their character.

Fusion with caustic potash converts it into a mixture of potassium ruthenate and ruthenium sesquioxide, Ru 2 0 3, which is a black, almost insoluble powder.

Exposure to sunlight converts it into trimesic acid (benzene-1.3.5-tricarboxylic acid).

Reduction, however, converts it into an aliphatic compound.

Iodine in alkaline solution converts pyrrol into iodol (tetra-iodopyrrol), crystallizing in yellowishbrown needles, which decompose on heating.

Moreover the mass of the ouvriers, even of extreme views, were repelled by Babeuf's bloodthirstiness; and the police agents reported that his agitation was making many converts - for the government.

After the field preaching began converts multiplied.

There is a Roman Catholic mission, with about 1000 converts, which was founded by an Italian priest in 1746.

As early as 1450 a company of Jewish converts in Spain, at the head of which were Paul de Heredia, Vidal de Saragossa de Aragon, and Davila, published compilations of Kabbalistic treatises to prove from them the doctrines of Christianity.'

It converts many metallic oxides into mixtures of nitrates and nitrites, and attacks many metals, forming nitrates and being itself reduced to nitric oxide.

Its converts nevertheless included many of the Bosnian nobles and the ban Kulin (1180-1204), whose reign was long proverbial for its prosperity, owing to the flourishing state of commerce and agriculture, and the extensive mining operations carried on by the Ragusans.

The Chiquito language was adopted as the means of communication among the converts, who soon numbered 50,000, representing nearly fifty tribes.

It was originally so used of converts to Judaism, but any one who sets out to convert others to his own opinions is said to " proselytize."

Again, many who had become converts to Judaism afterwards joined the new Christian communities.

Boiling concentrated sulphuric acid converts lead into sulphate, with evolution of sulphur dioxide.

He made many converts, several of whom suffered martyrdom.

Soon after his ordination in 1599, he assisted Cardinal Duperron in his controversy with the Protestant Philippe de Mornay, and made numerous converts.

All these figures are exclusive of natives, of whom the churches named - notably the Anglicans and Wesleyans - have many converts.

The number of converts was few, but the missionaries exercised a very wholesome influence and to them in measure was due the comparative mildness of Panda's later years.

The forms of Christianity which make most converts in Burma are the Baptist and Roman Catholic faiths.

Sodium amalgam converts it into formic acid; whilst with alcohol it yields the normal carbonic ester.

Aqua Regia, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids, converts all metals (even gold, the "king of metals," whence the name) into chlorides, except only rhodium, iridium and ruthenium, which, when pure, are not attacked.

Wohl forms the oxime and converts it into an acetylated nitrile by means of acetic anhydride and sodium acetate; ammoniacal silver nitrate solution removes hydrocyanic acid and the resulting acetate is hydrolysed by acting with ammonia to form an amide, which is finally decomposed with sulphuric acid.

Heated with many metals it converts them into oxides, and with combustible substances, such as charcoal, sulphur, &c., a most intense conflagration occurs.