EGAVE

convert

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 9.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
    A kettle converts water into steam.
  2. verb To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
    He converted his garden into a tennis court.
  3. verb To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief .
    They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
  4. verb To exchange for something of equal value.
    We converted our pounds into euros.
  5. verb To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
  6. verb 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.
    How do you convert feet into metres?
  7. verb To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
  8. verb To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

Similar words

change over change exchange turn win over convince commute transformation alter transform

Often followed by

the to a it them from into this their

Word family

conversion conversions converted convertible converting converts

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