different between follower vs convert
follower
English
Etymology
From Middle English folwer, folwere, fol?ere, from Old English folgere (“follower; attendant; disciple”), equivalent to follow +? -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulger, West Frisian folger, Dutch volger, German Folger, Swedish följare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?l???(?)/
Noun
follower (plural followers)
- (literally) One who follows, comes after another.
- Something that comes after another thing.
- One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
- One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
- An imitator, who follows another's example.
- A pursuer.
- (Internet) An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform.
- A machine part receiving motion from another.
- A man courting a maidservant.
- Young cattle.
- A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
- (Australian rules football) Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position.
- (colloquial, dated) A debt collector.
Antonyms
- leader
- precursor
Derived terms
- followership
- nonfollower
Related terms
- following
Translations
Anagrams
- fowl-lore, refollow
French
Etymology
From English follower.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?.l?.wœ?/
Noun
follower m (plural followers)
- (Internet) follower (on Twitter and similar sites)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?.l?.we/
Verb
follower
- (Internet) To follow (on Twitter and similar sites)
Conjugation
follower From the web:
- what followers can train you in skyrim
- what followers can become stewards
- what followers can you get in skyrim
- what followers can you marry in skyrim
- what followers want from leaders
- what follower should i bring to delphine
- what followers expect from their leaders
- what followers mean on instagram
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
convert From the web:
- what converts
- what converts food into energy
- what converts sunlight to chemical energy
- what converts mrna into a protein
- what converts glucose into atp
- what converts ac to dc
- what converts fibrinogen to fibrin
- what converts light to chemical energy
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