Convert vs Transfer - What's the difference?
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A person who has converted to his or her religion.
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
(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.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (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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*: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.
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, title= (lb) To score (a penalty).
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, title= 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
To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
To be or become transferred.
(legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
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, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer . A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
(medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
In transitive terms the difference between convert and transfer
is that convert is 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 while transfer is to convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.In transitive legal terms the difference between convert and transfer
is that convert is to appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion while transfer is to arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.In intransitive terms the difference between convert and transfer
is that convert is to become converted while transfer is to be or become transferred.convert
English
Noun
(en noun)- They were all converts to Islam.
- I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert !
Verb
(en verb)Katie L. Burke
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.}}
Wales 19-26 England, passage=Flood converted to leave Wales with a 23-9 deficit going into the final quarter.}}
Valencia 1-1 Chelsea, passage=But, after the error by Lampard's replacement Kalou, Roberto Soldado converted the penalty.}}
Antonyms
* deconvertDerived terms
* converter * convertible * downconvert, downconversion, downconverter * upconvert, upconversion, upconvertertransfer
English
(wikipedia transfer)Verb
(transferr)- to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
- to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- The title to land is transferred by deed.
Synonyms
* carry over, move, onpass * (convey impression of from one surface to another) copy, transpose * (to be or become transferred)Derived terms
* transferee * transferorNoun
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