Crossword clues for convertible
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Automobile \Au"to*mo*bile`\, n. [F.] a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.
Syn: car, auto, machine, motorcar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French convertible (13c.), from Late Latin convertibilis "changeable," from Latin convertere (see convert (v.)). The noun is recorded from 1610s; meaning "automobile with a fold-down top" is from 1916.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Able to be converted 2 (context obsolete English) Capable of being turned or rotated 3 Capable of being exchanged or interchanged, reciprocal, interchangeable 4 (context finance English) Having the right to be converted into a different security, usually common stock, at the holder's option n. 1 A car whose roof can be removed or folded 2 (context finance English) A hybrid security that can be converted into stock 3 A portable computer that can be physically converted between laptop and tablet configurations.
WordNet
adj. capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value; "convertible securities" [syn: exchangeable] [ant: inconvertible]
designed to be changed from one use or form to another; "a convertible sofa"; "a convertible coupe"
capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy; "is lead really transmutable into gold?"; "ideas translatable into reality" [syn: transformable, translatable, transmutable]
n. a car that has top that can be folded or removed
a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) [syn: convertible security]
a sofa that can be converted into a bed [syn: sofa bed]
Wikipedia
Convertible may refer to:
- Convertible (car), a class of automobiles
- Convertible (computer), a class of computers between tablet PCs and notebooks
- Convertible currency, a currency reference
- Convertible security, a stock trading reference
- IBM PC Convertible, IBM's first laptop computer in 1986
A convertible or cabriolet is an automobile body style that can convert between an open-air mode and an enclosed one, varying in degree and means by model. Convertibles evolved from the earlier phaeton, an open vehicle without glass side windows that sometimes had removable panels of fabric or other material for protection from the elements.
Historically, a retractable roof consisted of an articulated frame covered with a folding textile-based fabric similar to that on an open carriage evolved into the most common form. A lesser seen detachable hardtop provided a more weatherproof and secure alternative. As technology improved a retractable hardtop which removes and stows its own rigid roof in its trunk appeared, increasingly becoming the most popular form.
A semi-convertible also known as a cabrio coach has a retractable or removable top which retains fully framed windows on its doors and side glass. A landaulet is a semi-enclosed convertible with a fully enclosed front cabin and an open rear, typically with a folding fabric top and roll-down glass all round.
Many convertibles are two-door models, with a number of four-door models.
Usage examples of "convertible".
Traci Fishman came around the rear of the administration building, walked into the student parking lot, and unlocked a white Volkswagen Rabbit convertible.
Several hoods in front of him, sleek little fuel-injected Alpha particle manned by sandalwood-haired guy hugging cellular phone swaps places with convertible Stuttgart-apparatus piloted by blond bombshell lip-syncing to the same song Kraft himself has tuned in on the radio.
Thoma and Luis slammed their car doors to the convertible, they were two young men with long strides in black uniforms, gliding alongside each other up the steps.
She had rented the sportiest thing she could find, which was, in this case, a red Mustang convertible with a white roof, which looked a little forlorn as it pulled up through the dark winter night.
Doug where he lay on the bed, and then at Suzette, who was sleeping in the plush, convertible chair-bed on the far side of the room.
Should the Scarlatti Industries conclude the purchase of the remaining convertible debentures in Sheffield Cutlery and by exercising the conversions gain control of the company or not?
Government and in the form of legal-tender paper redeemable only with bonds bearing a low rate of interest, these bonds in turn to be convertible into greenbacks at the option of the holder.
The idea that two heroin pushers in a white Cadillac convertible would be dragging up and down the Strip, abusing total strangers at stoplights, was prima facie absurd.
To the left, an open carport sheltered a silver Audi convertible and a new white Volvo, with a vanity license plate that read CRYSTAL.
That may have been why he suddenly realised that he had been staring quite blankly at an open green convertible that swerved in to the curb towards him with a blonde blue-eyed goddess waving to him from behind the wheel.
Well like I always said, someday somebody's going to kill Bellbottom just to flay him and use his skin for a convertible roof, but Dogwalker just waved and walked on by while I made little pissy bumps at Bell.
It was back when new issues of convertible debentures were coming out and selling in the aftermarket at big premiums.
Joe put them into the convertible while Frank consulted a book on tides in the Bayport area.
Both the blue Mustang convertible and the big white Cadillac were parked in front, but no one answered Milo's bell push.
Among the things he remembered with particular sharpness, once they had crossed into New England and the Talisman began to glow again, signalling the return of normal time - or perhaps the return of time itself to Jack Sawyer - were the faces of people peering into the back seat of the El Dorado (people in parking lots, a sailor and an ox-faced girl in a convertible at a stoplight in a sunny little town in Iowa, a skinny Ohio kid wearing Breaking Away-style bicycle gear) in order to see if maybe Mick Jagger or Frank Sinatra had decided to pay them a call.