Verb

(en verb)

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

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*(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.

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*:“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.

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* (1796-1859)

*:No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.

(lb) To exchange for something of equal value.

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(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.

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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.

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(lb) To become converted.

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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

To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

* to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Stephen Ledoux , title=Behaviorism at 100 , volume=100, issue=1, page=60 , magazine= citation , passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}

To lose weight.

To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

* to reduce a sergeant to the ranks

* An ancient but reduced family. --.

* Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --.

* Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- .

* Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced . --.

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Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

* to reduce a province or a fort

To bring to an inferior state or condition.

* to reduce a city to ashes

(cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

(chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

(metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

(mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

(legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").

* It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.

(medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

(military) To reform a line or column from (a square).