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

(revers)

To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.

To turn something inside out or upside down.

* Sir W. Temple

A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.

To transpose the positions of two things.

To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

* Shakespeare

Reverse the doom of death.

* Sir Walter Scott

She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.

(obsolete) To return, come back.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.4:

Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse ?

(obsolete) To turn away; to cause to depart.

* Spenser

And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse .

(obsolete) To cause to return; to recall.

* Spenser

And to his fresh remembrance did reverse / The ugly view of his deformed crimes.

(legal) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.

to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree

(ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.

(chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.

(rail transport) To place a set of points in the reverse position

(rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position

To overthrow; to subvert.

* Alexander Pope

These can divide, and these reverse , the state.

* Rogers

Custom reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.