different between transform vs stellify

English

Etymology

From Middle English transformen, from Old French transformer, from Latin transformo, transformare, from trans (“across”, preposition) + forma (“form”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (UK) enPR: tr?nsfôm?, tränsfôm?; IPA^(key): /t?æns?f??m/, /t???ns?f??m/
  • (US) enPR: tr?nsfôrm?; IPA^(key): /t?æns?f??m/
• Noun:
  • (UK) enPR: tr?ns?fôm, träns?fôm; IPA^(key): /?t?ænsf??m/, /?t???nsf??m/
  • (US) enPR: tr?ns?fôrm; IPA^(key): /?t?ænsf??m/
• Hyphenation: trans?form

Verb

transform (third-person singular simple present transforms, present participle transforming, simple past and past participle transformed)

1. (transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.

   The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

   Synonyms: alter, change, convert, make over, transmogrify

2. (transitive) To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.

   • Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

   Synonyms: alter, change

3. (transitive, mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
4. (transitive, electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
5. (transitive, genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
6. (intransitive) To undergo a transformation; to change in appearance or character.

   Synonyms: alter, change

Related terms

• transformation

Derived terms

• transformer

Translations

Noun

transform (plural transforms)

1. (mathematical analysis) An operation (often an integration) that converts one function into another.
2. (by extension) A function so produced.
3. (geology, seismology) A transform fault.

Derived terms

• Borel transform
• discrete transform
• Fourier transform
• fractal transform
• integral transform
• See also: List of transforms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Related terms

• transformable
• transformance
• transformant
• transformate
• transformation
• transformational
• transformative
• transformed
• transformer
• transforming
• transformism
• transformist
• transformity

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ trans?form ]

Verb

transform

1. first-person singular present indicative of transforma
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of transforma

English

Etymology

From Middle English stellifien, from Middle French stellifier, from Medieval Latin stellificare, itself from Latin stella (“star”) + faci? (“make, do”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?st?l.?.fa?/

Verb

stellify (third-person singular simple present stellifies, present participle stellifying, simple past and past participle stellified)

1. (transitive, mythology) To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such

   In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal.

   • 1983, Douglas Brooks-Davies, The Mercurian Monarch: magical politics from Spenser to Pope, page 31

     By the 'hissing snake' Spenser presumably means the scorpion sent by Diana that killed Orion. Like Orion it, too, was stellified. But since, as Scorpio, it rises in the east as Orion's sign sets in the west, the two were regarded as being kept forever apart, Orion perpetually avoiding in the heavens his vanquisher on earth.

2. (transitive, astronomy) To turn into a star.
   • 1989, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 109: 75

     An alternative way to stellify the planet may be to not collapse Jupiter, but instead to introduce a collapsed object into its core.

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