different between conversion vs reform

English

Etymology

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversi?, from convert?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?v???(?)n/, /-?(?)n/
• (US) enPR: k?n-vûr?zh?n, IPA^(key): /k?n?v???n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n, -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: con?ver?sion

Noun

conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)

1. The act of converting something or someone.
2. (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
   • 1988, Crash (issue 59, December 1988)

     Mike Follin […] also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions Bubble Bobble (90%, Issue 45) and Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).

3. (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
4. (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
5. (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
6. (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
7. (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.

   • Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.

9. (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.

   Hyponyms: anthimeria, shift, shifting

10. (obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
11. (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
12. (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.

Antonyms

• deconversion

Hyponyms

• type conversion

Derived terms

Related terms

• convert

Translations

See also

• penalty

French

Etymology

From Latin conversi?, from convert?.

Pronunciation

Noun

conversion f (plural conversions)

1. conversion

Related terms

• convertir

Further reading

• “conversion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• convierons

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French reformer, from Latin reformo, reformare. As a noun since 1660s, from French réforme.

Pronunciation

• ("to form again"):
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??i??f??m/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i??f??m/
• (other senses):
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /???f??m/, /???f??m/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???f??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

reform (countable and uncountable, plural reforms)

1. The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it
   • 19 February 2011, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address, America Will Win the Future

     ...over the past two years, my administration has made education a top priority. We’ve launched a competition called “Race to the Top” – a reform that is lifting academic standards and getting results; not because Washington dictated the answers, but because states and local schools pursued innovative solutions.

Synonyms

• reformation
• amendment
• rectification
• correction

Derived terms

• monetary reform

Related terms

• reformation

Translations

Verb

reform (third-person singular simple present reforms, present participle reforming, simple past and past participle reformed)

1. (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better
   • 15 January 2018, Adebisi Onanuga and Robert Egbe in The Nation, ‘How we stopped DPP’s office from being used to settle scores’

     In this interview with Law Editors and Correspondents, he speaks on the gains of reforming the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), efforts to keep underage persons out of jail.

   • 1909, H. G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly Chapter 9

   to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals; to reform a criminal

   • “There was always something a bit wrong with him,” she said, “but nothing you mightn’t have hoped for, not till they took him and carried him off and reformed him"
2. (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits

3. (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.

   This product contains reformed meat.

Synonyms

• (put into a better condition): amend, correct, rectify, mend, repair, better, improve, restore, reclaim

Translations

References

reform in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Wells, John, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, ?ISBN, page 640

Further reading

• "reform" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 262.

Anagrams

• former

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?f?rm/, [???f??m]

Noun

reform c (singular definite reformen, plural indefinite reformer)

1. reform

Declension

References

• “reform” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “reform” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Hungarian

Etymology

From English reform and German Reform, from French réforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?form]
• Hyphenation: re?form
• Rhymes: -orm

Noun

reform (plural reformok)

1. reform

   Synonym: újítás

Declension

References

Further reading

• reform in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French réforme

Noun

reform m (definite singular reformen, indefinite plural reformer, definite plural reformene)

1. reform

Related terms

• reformere

References

• “reform” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French réforme

Noun

reform f (definite singular reforma, indefinite plural reformer, definite plural reformene)

1. reform

References

• “reform” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?f?rm/

Noun

reform c

1. reform

Declension

Related terms

• högskolereform
• reformation
• reformator
• reformatorisk
• reformera
• reformist
• reformistisk
• reformutrymme
• stavningsreform

References

• reform in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Anagrams

• former

Turkish

Etymology

From French réforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fo?m/

Noun

reform (definite accusative reformu, plural reformlar)

1. reform

Further reading

• reform in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu