convert

verb converts · converting · converted

1. transitive To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product. A kettle converts water into steam.
2. transitive To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another. And the deff's further sayen that after the said b'gayn the said lambert compounded wt the said lychefeld ffor the moytie of the said Tymber stone glasse yren and tyle aforsaid by fforce whereof the said Lambert and Jane executrix of the testament of the said Thom's lychefeld haue broken and pulled
3. transitive To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12). They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
4. transitive To exchange for something of equal value. We converted our pounds into euros.
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. How do you convert feet into metres?
7. transitive To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion. The grand jury claims Terrigno "knowingly converted, for the benefit of herself and others, federal funds, which were intended to help the poor and homeless in the Los Angeles area."
8. ambitransitive To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion. Flood converted to leave Wales with a 23-9 deficit going into the final quarter.
9. To score extra points following a touchdown. Bass also kicked field goals of 40 and 49 yards, but he also missed a point-after try, which led to a 2-point conversion that the Bills converted later in the game.
10. intransitive, transitive To score (especially a penalty kick). Hinton, inevitably, converted the penalty.
11. intransitive To score a spare.
12. intransitive To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3). We've converted to Methodism.
13. intransitive To become converted. The chair converts into a bed.
14. obsolete, transitive To cause to turn; to turn. O, which way shall I first convert myself?
15. transitive To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
16. obsolete, transitive To turn into another language; to translate. which story[…]Catullus more elegantly converted
17. transitive 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. 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.
18. intransitive To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion. Each time a user clicks on one of your adverts, you will be charged the bid amount whether the user converts or not.
19. ambitransitive To transform a material or positional advantage into a win. On the final day Marshall won a pawn as Black from another old rival, Hodges, but couldn't convert it and played on until a drawn king-and-pawn endgame.

Similar: convert, develop, draw, evolve, metamorphize, metamorphose, reconvert, shift, transfigurate, transfigure, transform, transmogrify

noun converts

1. A person who has converted to a religion. They were all converts to Islam.
2. A person who is now in favour of something that they 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. Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another. A great advantage of these temporary conversions of a man into a beast is that it enables the convert in his animal shape to pay out his enemy without being suspected.
4. Canadian The equivalent of a conversion in rugby