convert

Definitions of convert in various dictionaries:

noun - a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief

verb - change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy

verb - change the nature, purpose, or function of something

verb - change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief

verb - exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category

verb - cause to adopt a new or different faith

verb - score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone

verb - complete successfully

verb - score (a spare)

verb - make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something

verb - exchange a penalty for a less severe one

verb - change in nature, purpose, or function

To change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product; transform: convert water into ice.

To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another; adapt to a new or different purpose: convert a forest into farmland.

To persuade or induce to adopt a particular religion, faith, or belief: convert pagans to Christianity; was converted to pacifism by the war.

To exchange for something of equal value: convert assets into cash.

To exchange (a security, for example) by substituting an equivalent of another form.

To express (a quantity) in alternative units: converting feet into meters.

To transform (a proposition) by conversion.

Law.

To appropriate (another’s property) without right to one’s own use.

To change (property) from real to personal or from joint to separate or vice versa.

To undergo a conversion: We converted to Islam several years ago.

To be converted: a sofa that converts into a bed; arms factories converting to peacetime production.

The central meaning shared by these verb s is “to change into a different form, substance, or state”: convert stocks into cash; misery metamorphosing into happiness; a bare stage that was transfigured into an enchanted forest; a gangling adolescent transformed into a handsome adult; a sleepy town transmogrified by the boom into a bustling city; impossible to transmute lead into gold.

verb - to change into another form