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Morph vs Conversion - What's the difference?

morph | conversion |

In linguistics terms the difference between morph and conversion

is that morph is an allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts while conversion is the process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.

As a verb morph

is to change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.

morph

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds.
  • (linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
  • (biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
  • A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
  • Etymology 2

    Shortening of metamorphose: to change in shape or form.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial, ambitransitive) To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
  • To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
  • By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”

    conversion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of converting something or someone.
  • His conversion to Islam
    The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Artificial conversion of water into ice.
  • (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
  • * 1988 , Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
  • Mike Follin also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel'' (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions ''Bubble Bobble'' (90%, Issue 45) and ''Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
  • (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
  • (rugby) A free-kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
  • (American football) An extra point scored by kicking a field goal after scoring a touchdown.
  • (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
  • (legal) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
  • the conversion of a horse
  • * Hudibras
  • Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.
  • (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
  • (obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
  • (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
  • (math) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
  • the conversion''' of equations; the '''conversion of proportions

    Antonyms

    * deconversion

    See also

    * penalty ----