Transform vs Transfiguration - What's the difference?
transform | transfiguration |
To change greatly the appearance or form of.
* Shakespeare
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To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
* Bible, Romans xii. 2
(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.
a large change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis
a change that exalts or glorifies
As a verb transform
is to change greatly the appearance or form of.As a noun transform
is (mathematics) the result of a transformation.As a proper noun transfiguration is
(label) an annual feast day celebrating the miracle when the face of jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles observed on august 6th (gregorian) or 19th (julian).transform
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Verb
(en verb)- The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
- Love may transform me to an oyster.
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- Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
