convert

Plural: converts

Noun

• a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief
• A person who has converted to a religion.
• A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
• Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
• The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

Verb

Verb Forms: converted, converting, converts

• To change into another form, substance, or function.
• change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
  • "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt"
• change the nature, purpose, or function of something
  • "convert lead into gold"
  • "convert hotels into jails"
  • "convert slaves to laborers"
• change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
  • "She converted to Buddhism"
• exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
  • "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"
  • "convert centimeters into inches"
  • "convert holdings into shares"
• cause to adopt a new or different faith
  • "The missionaries converted the Indian population"
• score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone
  • "Smith converted and his team won"
• complete successfully
• score (a spare)
• make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
• exchange a penalty for a less severe one
• change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change
  • "The substance converts to an acid"
• To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
• To exchange for something of equal value.
• 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.
• To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• To score extra points following a touchdown.
• To score (especially a penalty kick).
• To score a spare.
• To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• To become converted.
• To cause to turn; to turn.
• To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
• To turn into another language; to translate.
• 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.
• To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
• To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.

Examples

• A kettle converts water into steam.
• Each time a user clicks on one of your adverts, you will be charged the bid amount whether the user converts or not.
• He converted his garden into a tennis court.
• How do you convert feet into metres?
• I hoped to convert my ’S’ into a high-scoring plural by playing ’QUIZZES’.
• I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!
• The chair converts into a bed.
• They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
• They were all converts to Islam.
• We converted our pounds into euros.
• We've converted to Methodism.

Synonyms

change, change over, commute, convince, exchange, win over

Antonyms

deconvert

Related Words

conversion, proselytize