Convert

Definition: Convert

Convert

Noun

1. One who has been converted to another religious or political belief.

Verb

1. Change the nature, purpose, or function of something; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails; "convert slaves to laborers".

2. Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy; "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt".

3. Change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief; "She converted to Buddhism".

4. Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?" "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares".

5. Cause to adopt a new or different faith; "The missionaries converted the Indian population".

6. Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product".

7. Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.

8. Change in nature, purpose, or function; esp. undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "convert" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

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Synonyms: Convert

Belief

Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.

Change

Recast; reverse; disturb; convert into.

Continuance in action

Convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.

Convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form; remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.

Piety

Convert, edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate, enshrine.

Believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist; the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect; Saint, Madonna, Notre Dame, Our Lady.

Tergiversation

Turn coat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist.

Use

Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.

Crosswords: Convert

The Inquisition, let's begin, the Inquisition, look out sin, we're on a mission to convert the Jews (History of the World Part 1; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

I'm gonna convert to Latvian Orthodox, just to be with her. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You're gravely mistaken, you won't convert me as you did my father (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

Listen. I've been in this dump for sixteen years and I haven't made a single convert (Erik the Viking; writing credit: Terry Jones)

Go against the grain and we convert to the worst (Can't Nobody; performing artist: Nate Dogg)

The Convert (1923)

Her Convert (1915)

The Convert (1911)

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References

• The World Market for Seat That Convert into Beds Excluding Garden Seats and Camping Equipment: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• A Teenager's Tears : When Parents Convert to Polygamy (reference)

• Convert It! (reference)

• How to Convert to an Electric Car (reference)

• Knowing And Doing - Close The Gap! -- Learning Organizations Must Convert Knowledge To Action, Says Jeffrey Pfeffer [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Make Your Website Work for You: How to Convert Online Content Into Profits (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Delete Nature Convert Today (reference)

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High Tech

• Nikon Convert Adapter UR-E6 for Tele-Fisheye Coolpix 5000 (reference)

• Nikon UR-E8 Convert Adapter Coolpix 5700 (reference)

• Transition Networks Just Convert It Enet Converter 10BT To 10Bfl Multimode St (reference)

• Wallmount Speed Media Convert Switch 10/100bt To 100bfx Sc-mmf (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Canal used to drain property to convert and maintain former marsh land to pasture. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Underwater tape recorders were used to record the number and size of each fish species on a set transect. A conversion table was used to convert estimated length of fish to estimated weight. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Apparatus used to convert electrical energy into mechanical rotation, the basis of dynamos, using bar magnet, beaker of mercury, and current carrying wire] / A.A., del. ; J.B. Taylor, sc. Credit: Library of Congress.

Came to Utah from Denmark as a Mormon convert when a boy. Now ninety-five years old. Escalante, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress.

Convert Rocky Flats. Credit: Library of Congress.

Establish a new standard of merit for the people : just as the heroic 4th platoon and commrade Li Wen'chung worked to defeat selfishness and promote the common good, we should convert Chairman Mao's most recent directive into action. Credit: Library of Congress.

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To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge --to convert our good words into good deeds--in a new alliance for progress--to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. (reference)

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Health

This decision to convert to open cholecystectomy should be considered sound surgical judgment. (references)

Mitochondria are essential organelles found in all animal cells that convert the energy in food into fuel for the cells. (references)

Much of the recent progress in implant performance has involved improvements in the speech processors, which convert sound into electrical stimuli. (references)

Business

Foreign exchange status restricts companies to freely convert in the local market. (references)

The Ministry of Health continues to convert these polyclinics into 30-50 bed general hospitals to gradually replace existing mobile clinics. (references)

Since then, Millicom has invested around USD40 million to upgrade Comcel’s network and to convert it from an analog system to a digital TDMA protocol system. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

Any attempt to induce a Muslim to convert is illegal. (references)

Pakistan

Children of non-Muslim men who convert are not considered illegitimate. (references)

Turkey

One member of the group was briefly detained for allegedly bribing persons to convert to Christianity. (references)

Economic History

India

Bayer plans to convert the joint venture into a 100-percent-owned Indian subsidiary. (references)

Ukraine

Currently, investors must convert half of their foreign currency revenues to the national currency. (references)

Uzbekistan

GDP estimates depend very much on the exchange rate used to convert the government's soum figures to dollars. (references)

Human Rights

Comoros

On Anjouan local authorities continued to attempt to suppress or convert the Christian minority. (references)

Sri Lanka

Although the army in some instances took steps to convert Tamil militia groups into regular army units, military oversight of these groups remained inadequate, and complaints about them continued, especially in Batticaloa and in transit camps for internally displaced person (IDP's) in Vavuniya. (references)

Minorities

Iran

Muslims who convert to Christianity also suffer discrimination. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

There are reliable reports that Islamic NGO's in war zones withhold food and other services from the needy unless they convert to Islam. (references)

Sudan

There were credible reports that some children from Christian and other non-Muslim families who were captured and enslaved were forced to convert to Islam. (references)

EL SALVADOR

This law also required banks to convert depositors' colon-denominated accounts to dollar-denominated accounts and made the dollar the financial system's accounting unit. (references)

Trade

Kenya

In June 1994, the Central Bank instructed NBFIs to convert and operate as commercial banks. (references)

Ukraine

Banking was the first sector in Ukraine to convert to International Accounting Standards (IAS). (references)

Brazil

The official Brazilian exchange rate must be used to convert dollar accounts for local purchases. (references)

Travel

Netherlands

On January 1, 2002, the Netherlands will convert from the guilder to the euro. (references)

Australia

Voltage transformers, to convert American 110V appliances are available, but not found. (references)

Women

Qatar

A non-Muslim women is not required to convert to Islam upon marriage to a Muslim; however, many make a personal decision to do so. A noncitizen woman is not required to become a citizen upon marriage to a citizen. (references)

Worker Rights

Moldova

By year's end, work had begun to convert the four free enterprise zones in rural areas to EPZ's. (references)

Qatar

Foreign workers may enter the country on a visitor's visa, but a sponsor then is needed to convert the visitor's visa to a work visa and the worker must have his sponsor's permission to depart the country. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "convert": convert a penalty kick ♦ convert into ♦ convert smb. to one's faith ♦ convert to another faith ♦ convert to christianity ♦ convert to judaism. Additional references.

Ending with "convert": de-convert, re-convert.

Afrikaans

bekeer, bekeerling (proselyte). (various references)

Albanian

shndërroj (alter, foul, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn into), person i kthyer në fe tjetër, kthej (bandy, bend, bow, bring back, disgorge, fold in, give back, head off, lift down, replace, restore, return, slew, throw back, transform, transit, turn, turn aside, turn down), këmbej (change, exchange, reverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتنق دين جديد, ‏هدى إلى, ‏قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upset, upturn, whimsical), ‏حول إلى العدالة, ‏غير دينه, ‏تحول (chop, evolution, inconstancy, juncture, metamorphosis, modification, modify, mutate, mutation, reduction, switch, transference, transform, transformation, transfusion, transition, transmutation, turn, turn into, turnover), ‏تغير (alter, alteration, change, metamorphose, modify, mutate, mutation, range, set of exchange, shift, shift up, swing, turn, variation, vary, vicissitude), ‏تبدل (alter, alteration, change, chop, transform), ‏المهتدي, ‏إهتدى (go by), ‏إغتلس, ‏إغتصب (assault, assume, commandeer, exact, extort, force, rape, wring). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обръщам (bring about, cant, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist, upset), обменям (barter, exchange, interchange, negotiate), превръщам се (melt, merge, resolve), превръщам (change, gasify, metamorphose, organize, ossify, powder, pulverize, reduce, transform, transmute, turn, vaporize, volatilize), преправям (alter, bushel, do over, rebuild, redo, remake, reshape), присвоявам (abstract, appropriate), приемам друга вяра, покръствам (evangelize). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�变信仰者. (various references)

Croatian

unovèiti (convert into cash). (various references)

Czech

přestavìt (alter, rearrange, rebuild, reconstruct), přepoèítat, přemìnit (transform, transmute), přeměnit, obrátit (direct, inverse, reverse, tool, toss, upturn), konvertovat, adaptovat (adapt). (various references)

Danish

ved overskud af mischmetal gaar naesten den totale svovlmaengde over til sulfider af de sjaeldne jordarter, der er hoejtsmeltende sulfider (an excess of mischmetal will convert practically all the sulphur into rare-earth sulphides, which occur ad refractory sulphides), sektoren forsikringsselskaber omfatter alle de institutionelle enheder,hvis hovedfunktion bestaar i at forsikre,dvs.at omdanne individuelle risici til kollektive risici normalt ved skabelse af forsikringstekniske reserver (normally by establishinginsurance technical reserves, the sector insurance enterprises consists of all insitutional units which are principally engaged in insurance:i.e.which convert individual risks into collective risks). (various references)

Dutch

bekeren. (various references)

Esperanto

prozelito (proselyte), konvertito (proselyte), konverti. (various references)

Faeroese

venda um, skifta trúgv. (various references)

Farsi 

معکوس کردن , وارونه کردن (Cant, Reverse, Turnout, Turnover, Turquoise), تازه کیش , بکیش دیگری اوردن , برگرداندن (Evoke, Rebut, Reflect, Refract, Regurgitate, Repay, Retort, Return, Reverse, Turquoise, Upset, Vomit). (various references)

Finnish

muuttaa (alter, change, migrate, move move, remove, transform, turn), muuntaa (transform), kääntynyt (converted), kääntää (fold, translate, turn, turn around, turn round), käännyttää, käännynnäinen. (various references)

French

convertir. (various references)

German

umwandeln (change, commute, metabolize, to convert, to metabolize, to transform, to transmute, transform, transmute, transubstantiate, walk round), umformen (recast, remodel, reshape, to convert, to transform, transform), konvertieren (be converted, to convert), bekehren (be convincing, proselyte, proselytize). (various references)

Greek 

μετατρέπω (alter, commute, divert, reduce, transform, transmute), προσήλυτοσ (proselyte). (various references)

Hebrew 

מומר (apostate, pervert, proselyte, renegade), משומ�" (apostate), מ�'ויר (apostate, proselyte), ל�"מיר (change, exchange, substitute), ל�"פוך (change, go, invert, reverse, turn). (various references)

Hungarian

megtért személy, megtérít (proselyte, proselytise, proselytize, refund, reimburse, to convert, to evangelize, to proselytize, to recompense, to refund, to reimburse), áttért személy, áttérít, áttér, átalakít (metamorphose, modify, remake, remodel, reshuffle, revamp, to convert, to do up, to make over, to realign, to reblock, to reshape, to reshuffle, to retrofit, to transfigure, to transform, to translate, to transmogrify, to transmute, transform, transmogrify, transmute). (various references)

Indonesian

orang yang bertobat (penitence), membaptis (baptise, baptize), baptis (baptise). (various references)

Italian

convertito (proselyte), convertire (be converted, change, transform). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

転換 (divert), コンマ以下 (below the decimal, cockroach, commune, connecting rod, con-rod, conversion, convolution, convolve, cornrow style, ghost, ghost town, ghost writer, giving permission, go steady, goal, goal getter, goal kick, goal line, goal post, goal reached, goalkeeper, goatability, go-cart, goggles, go-go, go-go dance, going my way, gold, gold medalist, gold rush, Goldberg, golden, golden age, golden disk, golden hour, golden time, Golden Week, golem, Gordon, gorgeous, gothic, green light, hit the goal, make the goal, of no account, prime time, traffic light), コントロール理論 (a party, a social, chondriosome, combat, combat team, combine, company, compartment, compatible machine, compiler, condom, condominium, condor, control theory, conversion, conversion lens, converter, converter lens, convertible, Kondratieff cycle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

コンバート , コンヴァート , て�"か�" (divert, epilepsy, epileptic fit, exhibit, Milky Way). (various references)

Korean 

개심자. (various references)

Manx

noa-chredjaltagh (neophyte), chyndaa (avert, avert eyes, deflect, invert, quirk, return, revolve, translate, turn, turn over, twirl). (various references)

Papiamen

kombertí. (various references)

Pig Latin

onvertcay.(various references)

Portuguese

converter (bring over, change, make into, proselyte, proselytize, reduce, remake, transform). (various references)

Romanian

convertit, converti (change, transform), câştiga (acquire, bear away, bear off, carry, carry off, clean, come by, conciliate, conquer, draw the winner, earn, find, gain, gain smb. over, make, obtain, overcome, purchase, score, steal, sweep, take the cake, win), transforma (alter, change, chop, commute, fashion, idolize, modify, permute, recast, reduce, resolve, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn into), se transforma (develop, develop into, grow, pass into, resolve), se schimba (alter, break, change, chop, crack, vary), preface (alter, change, feign, reduce, sham, simulate, swell, transform). (various references)

Russian 

конвертировать, обращать (proselytize), новообращенный (catechumen, neophyte, novice, proselyte), превращать (change into, reduce, render, transform, transforming, transmogrify, transmute, turn, turn into), преобразовывать преобразование. (various references)

Scottish

somh, iompaich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prisvojiti (appropriate, arrogate, assume, catch hold of, preempt, usurp), pretvoriti (rectify, transmute), preobratiti (change, proselyte, transform), preobraćen (proselyte), obrnuti (invert, revolve, switch, turn). (various references)

Spanish

convertir (proselyte, proselytize, transform, turn, turn about, turn around), transformar (back, change, process, transform, transubstantiate, turn, turn about, turn around). (various references)

Swedish

omvända, konvertera (converting). (various references)

Turkish

sayı yapmak (knock up, put on, score, score up), inancını değiştirmek, inancı değişen kimse, dininden döndürmek, din değiştiren kimse (apostate, deserter, vert), değiştirmek (alter, alternate, amend, change, commute, disguise, diversify, doctor, exchange, falsify, garble, inflect, interchange, intersperse, juggle with, metamorphose, modify, recast, replace, revise, shed, shift, specialize, swap, switch, switch to, swop, transmute, unmake, vary), değişmek (alter, alternate, amend, change, chop about, chop round, modify, mutate, shade, shift, switch, turn to, vary), dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, cycle, deflection, deflexion, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turn, turning, twist, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding), dönüştürmek (coke, process into, reduce, resolve, transform, translate, transmute, transubstantiate, turn, turn into, turn to), dönüşmek (be transformed into, change, expand, grow, pass, resolve, return to, shade, shade into, shade off, shade off into, transform, turn, turn into, turn to), arıtmak (clarify, clean, defecate, depurate, expurgate, fine, fine down, isolate, purify, rarefy, refine, smelt), çevirmek (assemble, avert, bowl, change to, commute, decline, deflect, divert, encircle, enclose, exchange, flip, flip over, hedge in, hedge round, inclose, interpret, manage, point, point on, pull, render, revert, roll, roll over, screw, slew, slew round, slue, slue round, spin, surround, switch to, translate, translate into, turn, turn into, turn on, turn over, turn to, twiddle, twirl, upturn, whip, wind, wind up, zone). (various references)

Ukrainian

конвертувати, новонавернений (catechumen, converted, neophyte, novice), навертати, перетворювати (make smb., reduce, transfigure, transmute). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người thay đổi tín ngưỡng, người cải đạo (converted). (various references)

Welsh

trosi (translate, turn), troi (plough, revolve, turn), dychweledig (converted), am-droi (wind). (various references)

proselytos. (various references)

conversa, conversae, conversi, conversique, conversum, conversus, conversusque, convertam, convertantur, convertar, convertat, convertatur, converte, convertebantur, convertebat, convertemini, convertemur, convertemus, convertendas, convertendo, convertendos, convertendum, convertens, convertent, convertentem, convertentes, convertenti, convertentibus, convertentur, converterat, convertere, converteremur, converterentur, converteret, converteretur, converterint, converteris, converterit, convertero, converteruntque, convertes, convertet, convertetur, converti, convertimini, convertimur, convertis, convertissem, convertisti, convertistis, convertit, convertitis, convertitque, converto, convertuntur, proselyti, proselytis, proselytorum, proselytos, proselytum, traducere. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "convert": convertaplane, convertaplanes, converted, converter, converters, convertibilities, convertibility, convertible, convertibleness, convertiblenesses, convertibles, convertibly, converting, convertiplane, convertiplanes, convertor, convertors, converts. (additional references)

Words ending with "convert": interconvert, reconvert. (additional references)

Words containing "convert": inconvertibilities, inconvertibility, inconvertible, inconvertibly, interconverted, interconvertibilities, interconvertibility, interconvertible, interconverting, interconverts, nonconvertible, reconverted, reconverting, reconverts, unconverted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Convert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cenberht, Cenfrith, Clonfert, colvert, conert, conveat, converg, convers, converte, convery, convet, convette, Convitto, convort, Cornaert, Couvert. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cornet, corvet, covert, vector.

-2 letters: cento, conte, coven, cover, covet, crone, noter, overt, recon, recto, roven, tenor, toner, trone, trove, voter.

-3 letters: cent, cero, cone, core, corn, cote, cove, note, once, oven, over, rent, rote, rove, tern, tone, torc, tore, torn, vent, vert, veto, vote.

-4 letters: con, cor, cot, eon, ern, net, nor, not.

+1 letter: contrive, converts.

+2 letters: contrived, contriver, contrives, convector, converted, converter, convertor, nonvector, overcount, reconvert, reconvict, vectoring.

+3 letters: coinventor, coinvestor, contortive, contravene, contrivers, controvert, convectors, convergent, conversant, converters, converting, convertors, covenanter, covenantor, covertness, nonvectors, overacting, overaction, overcounts, reconverts, reconvicts, revocation, vacationer, ventricose, vociferant, voiceprint.

+4 letters: coinventors, coinvestors, conservator, contractive, contrastive, contravened, contravener, contravenes, contrivance, controversy, controverts, convertible, convertibly, countermove, countervail, counterview, covenanters, covenantors, divorcement, eigenvector, insectivore, involucrate, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, overactions, overcasting, overcaution, overcontrol, overcounted, overcutting, reconverted, reconvicted, revocations, uncontrived, unconverted, vacationers, voiceprints.