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Convince vs Convect - What's the difference?

convince | convect |

As verbs the difference between convince and convect

is that convince is to make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence while convect is to carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection.

convince

English

Verb

(convinc)
  • To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
  • * Atterbury
    • Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
  • To persuade.
  • (obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.
  • (obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.
  • (obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.
  • * Bible, John viii. 46
    • Which of you convinceth me of sin?
  • * Dryden
    • Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.

    Synonyms

    * persuade * satisfy * assure * convert * win over

    Related terms

    * convict * conviction * convincible * convincingly English control verbs ----

    convect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection.
  • :The heated surface caused the air to convect .

    • Derived terms

    * convection * convector