Convert vs Transit - What's the difference?
convert | transit |
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
The act of passing over, across, or through something.
* Burke
The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
(astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
(navigation) an imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
(British) a van. (rfex)
(Internet) to carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
To pass over, across or through something
To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction
(astronomy) To make a transit
As verbs the difference between convert and transit
is that convert is (lb) to transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product while transit is .As a noun convert
is a person who has converted to his or her religion.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, upconvertertransit
English
Noun
- In France you are now in the transit from one form of government to another.
- the transit of goods through a country
