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adherent
English
Alternative forms
- adhærent (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaer?ns, present participle of adhaere? (“to stick to, cling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æd?(h)????nt/, /?d-/
Adjective
adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)
- Adhesive, sticking to something.
- Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
- (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
Synonyms
- adhering
Related terms
- adhere
- adherence
- adhesive
- coherent
- inherent
Translations
Noun
adherent (plural adherents)
- A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
Translations
Anagrams
- Renthead, anthered, hand tree, hartened, neatherd, threaden
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin adhaer?ns.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?.d???ent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?.d???en/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /a.de??ent/
Adjective
adherent (masculine and feminine plural adherents)
- adherent
Noun
adherent m or f (plural adherents)
- adherent
Related terms
- adherència
- adherir
Further reading
- “adherent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin
Verb
adh?rent
- third-person plural present active indicative of adh?re?
Polish
Etymology
From French adhérent, from Latin adhaer?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /at?x?.r?nt/
Noun
adherent m pers (feminine adherentka)
- (dated) adherent, henchman, supporter
- Synonym: stronnik
Declension
Related terms
- (noun) adherencja
Further reading
- adherent in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- adherent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adx?rent/
- Hyphenation: ad?he?rent
Noun
adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- adherent
Declension
Synonyms
- (follower): prìstalica, pr?staša, sl?dben?k/slj?dben?k
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convert
English
Etymology
From Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”)
Pronunciation
Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?n.v?t/, [?k???.v?t]
- (General American) enPR: k?n'vûrt, IPA(key): /?k?n.v?t/, [?k???.v?t]
Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?v??t/, [k?????v??t]
- (General American) enPR: k?nvûrt', IPA(key): /k?n?v?t/, [k?????v?t]
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
convert (third-person singular simple present converts, present participle converting, simple past and past participle converted)
- (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- if the whole atmosphere were converted into water
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, […].
- (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
- (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
- (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
- (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- (intransitive) To become converted.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- O, which way shall I first convert myself?
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
- 1609, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens
- which story […] Catullus more elegantly converted
- 1609, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens
- (transitive, cricket) 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.
- 2006, BBC, Gillespie hails 'fairytale' knock:
- Gillespie was reminded he had promised to join team-mate Matthew Hayden in a nude lap of the ground if he converted his century into a double.
- 2006, BBC, Gillespie hails 'fairytale' knock:
- (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
Antonyms
- deconvert
Derived terms
Related terms
- conversion
Translations
Noun
convert (plural converts)
- A person who has converted to a religion.
- They were all converts to Islam.
- 2004, Ted Jones, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, Tauris Parke Paperbacks (2007), ?ISBN, chapter 3, 64:
- While still in this relationship, Greene, a convert to Roman Catholicism at 23, was asked to be godfather to Catherine Walston, a 30-year-old married woman, at her own conversion.
- A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
- I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!
- (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
Translations
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- what converts fibrinogen to fibrin
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