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Transform vs Nonsensify - What's the difference?

transform | nonsensify |

As verbs the difference between transform and nonsensify

is that transform is to change greatly the appearance or form of while nonsensify is (transitive|and|intransitive|rare) to treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

As a noun transform

is (mathematics) the result of a transformation.

transform

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To change greatly the appearance or form of.
    • The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Love may transform me to an oyster.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].}}
  • To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
  • * Bible, Romans xii. 2
    • Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
  • (mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
  • (electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
  • (genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
  • To undergo a transformation.

    • Synonyms

    * (change greatly the appearance or form of) alter, change, convert, make over, transmogrify * (sense) alter, change * (undergo a transformation) alter, change

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) the result of a transformation

    • Derived terms

    * Fourier transform

    Related terms

    * transformable * transformance * transformant * transformate * transformation * transformational * transformative * transformed * transformer * transforming * transformism * transformist * transformity English ergative verbs English heteronyms English words prefixed with trans- ----

    nonsensify

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, and, intransitive, rare) To treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
  • * 1872 , A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell , Printed for private collection, "St. Peter's Complaint," p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2):
    • Turnbull again obscures and nonsensifies by misprinting "works" for "words."
  • * 1949 , Wilson Library Bulletin, vol. 24, p. 241:
    • The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.
  • * 2001 , Phillip Harth et al.'', ''Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth , ISBN 9780299174804, p. 84:
    • But Swift will have none of this. He nonsensifies Collins.
  • * 2002 , Alun Rees, "Golf: Maruyama outshone," Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 27 Jul.:
    • The Dutchman, taking the 16th stage of the Tour de France after a solo effort which nonsensified all known laws of human endurance, smiled.

    Derived terms

    * nonsensification