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Word: convert (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A person who has converted his or her religion.
  • A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.

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Verb:

  • ten-pin bowling To score a spare.
  • intransitive To become converted.
  • intransitive To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief.
  • legal To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
  • rugby football To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
  • transitive To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
  • transitive To exchange for something of equal value.
  • transitive To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
  • transitive To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
  • transitive To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, or belief.
  • transitive To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

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