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

(en verb)

(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

* Prior

Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.

* Thomson

The tumbling stream / Reverted , plays in undulating flow.

To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

To cause to return to a former condition.

(now rare) To return; to come back.

* Shakespeare

So that my arrows / Would have reverted to my bow again.

To return to the possession of.

# (legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety.  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

(biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.

(intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.

* 1995 , Wiz?rat al-I?l?m wa-al-Thaq?fah, Sudanow: Volume 20

He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam.

* 1997 , Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons

The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.

* 2003 , Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumu?ah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12

But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life.

(intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To reply; to come back.

(math) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + ...'', where one variable ''y'' is expressed in powers of a second variable ''x''), so as to find the second variable ''x'' expressed in a series arranged in powers of ''y .