CONVERT

convert

Noun

  1. A person who has converted his or her religion.
    They were all converts to Islam.
  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!

Verb

  1. To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
  2. To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
  3. To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief.
  4. To exchange for something of equal value.
  5. To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
  6. To express (a unit of measure) 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. To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
  8. To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
  9. To score (a penalty).
  10. To score a spare.
  11. To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief.
  12. To become converted.
  13. To cause to turn; to turn.
  14. To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
  15. To turn into another language; to translate.


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