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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)

1. (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
2. (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, […].

3. (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.
4. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.

5. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
6. (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.

7. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
8. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
9. (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
10. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
11. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).

12. (intransitive) To become converted.

13. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
    • 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

      O, which way shall I first convert myself?

14. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
15. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
    • 1609, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens

      which story […] Catullus more elegantly converted

16. (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.

17. (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)

1. 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.

2. 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!

3. (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

Translations

English

Etymology

From laic (“layperson”) +? -ize (“verbal suffix”).

Verb

laicize (third-person singular simple present laicizes, present participle laicizing, simple past and past participle laicized)

1. (transitive) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.

   They will laicise each of the schools in the district.

2. (transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman.

   Due to his controversial views the Vatican decided to laicise the priest.

3. (intransitive) To convert to lay status.

   The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.

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