convert
/kənˈvɝt/ verb B2- To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product. · A kettle converts water into steam.
- To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another. · He converted his garden into a tennis court.
- 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.
- To exchange for something of equal value. · We converted our pounds into euros.
- To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- 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?
- To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
He/she/it converts · Past converted · Past participle converted · -ing form converting
Verb forms
- Base form
- convert
- He/she/it
- converts
- Past
- converted
- Past participle
- converted
- -ing form
- converting
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He contemplated with unspeakable delight the large diamond which shone on the major’s little finger; for the major, like a prudent man, in case of any accident happening to his bank-notes, had immediately converted them into an available asset.
Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Condé; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god.
By thus renewing the custom of the old feudal days the Manor House was converted into an island during the night—a fact which had a very direct bearing upon the mystery which was soon to engage the attention of all England.
They were converted to this idea, and preferred to let him go.
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