Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

:

*(Thomas Burnet) (1635?-1715)

*:if the whole atmosphere were converted into water

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:That still lessens / The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}

(lb) 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,.

(lb) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief.

:

* (1796-1859)

*:No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.

(lb) To exchange for something of equal value.

:

(lb) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.

(lb) 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.

:

To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.

To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 4, author=Gareth Roberts, work=BBC

, title= Wales 19-26 England , passage=Flood converted to leave Wales with a 23-9 deficit going into the final quarter.}}

(lb) To score (a penalty).

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport

, title= Valencia 1-1 Chelsea , passage=But, after the error by Lampard's replacement Kalou, Roberto Soldado converted the penalty.}}

To score a spare.

(lb) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief.

:

(lb) To become converted.

:

To cause to turn; to turn.

*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

*:O, which way shall I first convert myself?

To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

To turn into another language; to translate.

*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

*:which storyCatullus more elegantly converted

Verb

(embrac)

To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

* Shakespeare

I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.

* Bible, Acts xx. 1

Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.

(obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.

(Shakespeare)

To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.

I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.

* Shakespeare

You embrace the occasion.

* John Locke

What is there that he may not embrace for truth?

To accept; to undergo; to submit to.

* Shakespeare

I embrace this fortune patiently.

To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.

* Dryden

Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .

* Denham

Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .

To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.

Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

To fasten on, as armour.

(Spenser)

(legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.

(Blackstone)