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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
convert
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
change/convert currency (=change money from one currency to another)
▪ There’s usually a charge for converting currencies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bank
▪ People rushed to convert their bank deposits into cash.
▪ K., and the numbers is expected to dwindle as many are taken over, merge or convert to banks.
▪ Building societies were converting into banks, insurance companies were changing their status, the air was thick with windfalls.
▪ The combined group will convert to a listed bank in early 1997.
▪ About 90 % of Bradford &038; Bingley's members voted in favour of the building society converting to a bank.
▪ Analysts have said they expect three of the four largest building societies to convert to banks in the coming few years.
barn
▪ I visited one farm that obtained permission to convert a barn for use as a place to pack boxes.
▪ Have you converted a barn into a comfortable home?
building
▪ Their college is negotiating to convert the prison building to provide accomodation for students.
▪ Happily plans are now well in hand to convert the buildings into around 70 luxury dwellings.
cash
▪ So more people wanted to convert deposits into cash, more banks failed, and so on.
▪ Marketable securities are short-term, high-quality debt instruments that can be easily converted into cash.
▪ The liquidity of an asset is the ease with which it can be converted into cash without loss.
▪ Marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventories are continually being converted into cash in the normal course of business.
▪ Although not actually cash, these assets can be converted into cash on demand with no financial penalty.
▪ In other words, they can easily be converted into cash but may involve some loss.
▪ It is likely to be converted into cash and is part of the operating cycle therefore a current asset.
▪ It would cost around four million pounds to convert every cash dispenser in the country to being voice activated.
catholicism
▪ During his convalescence he was nursed by Martha Freeman, who converted him to Catholicism.
▪ Her replacement, Sister Nirmala, was born a Hindu but converted to Catholicism and has been with the order since 1958.
▪ Maude had converted to Catholicism in order to marry her husband.
▪ Sigismund converted to catholicism before becoming king in 516.
▪ Released in the general amnesty of June 1917, she converted to Catholicism.
energy
▪ The action of the lungs works like a bellows which enriches the internal fire where food is converted into energy.
▪ This occurs as the result of toxins that form as mechanical energy is converted to electrical energy.
▪ In effect, they convert the energy of the electromagnetic radiation into chemical energy.
▪ Because the truth would emerge as soon as you converted the energy into a different form.
▪ This is about the energy that would be released if a hydrogen atom could be totally converted into energy.
▪ He showed converting energy from the sun into useful forms was scientifically possible.
▪ All these provide indirect means of converting solar energy to forms of energy which are useful to us.
▪ The sensing element of a scintillation counter is a fluor, a substance capable of converting radiation energy to light energy.
file
▪ There are two ways of making a RealAudio file: converting an existing file, and capturing from an audio device.
▪ To convert our WordStar file, press 4.
▪ First up, is Pizazz + Convert, a handy utility for converting one graphics file type to another.
▪ The Convert program converts files created with another word-processing program to WordPerfect format or vice versa.
house
▪ One of these used to be the Free Church but has now been converted into a house.
▪ Attractively converted town house close to Portobello market, with spacious, fully equipped rooms.
▪ Mrs Scott, pictured above, first took the plunge in 1993 when she converted a house into two flats.
▪ It was converted to a private house, with only the leat still visible in the landscaped gardens.
▪ Three of the chapels were demolished, the remaining one is converted to a house.
▪ Barn owls need barns or similar buildings for breeding, and more and more of them are being converted into country houses.
▪ Sandford Mill, now in the heart of a greatly expanded Cheltenham, and converted to a house.
image
▪ The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style.
▪ This converts the image into electronic signals which are passed to the recorder section containing the cassette housing and tape transport mechanisms.
▪ Scanners convert the image they are given into a pattern of dots, typically at a resolution of 300dpi.
▪ These digital reflectance values are converted to a viewable image by the computer system shown in Figure 5.10.
▪ This transform is essentially an equation which will convert from image to map coordinates and vice-versa.
penalty
▪ John McCann converted a penalty for the losers' reply.
▪ Matthew Hunt converted a penalty after five minutes; then Fowler netted his first after a move started by Nikki Harman.
▪ Kennetts beat Wickham Dynamoes 2-1, with Kevin West converting two penalties.
▪ Street converted the penalty for the third, before Malshanger pulled one back towards the end.
▪ Taylor converted a penalty for Shortheath's goal, but there was no stopping the Hollywater side.
plan
▪ The plan is to convert a twenty-eight-building factory compound into the world's largest museum of post-1960 international art.
▪ The present owner has plans to convert it to a travelling theatre.
▪ The plan is to convert it into the ultimate upmarket hotel and hautecuisine restaurant.
signal
▪ Here the pulses are converted into signals that provide the directional information, just as with a conventional switch type joys tick.
▪ Time Division Multiple Access converts conversations into digital signals and assigns each one specific time slots.
▪ The digital images held in the memory banks are converted to television signals which are displayed on the monitor.
▪ It enables your loudspeakers to produce music by converting the digital signal to an analog waveform.
▪ To cross this gap, an action potential must be converted from an electrical signal to a chemical signal.
stock
▪ These are debt securities that can be converted into stock.
try
▪ He also converted Ian Jones's try off the touchline.
▪ Laing converted this try, and two penalty tries awarded as the Instonians scrum got on top.
▪ Earlier, Craggs had kicked a penalty and then hit the post when attempting to convert Steve Towns' try.
▪ With White converting all the tries, Alton ran out comfortable winners after a terrible start.
▪ Didier Camberabero kicked a penalty and converted a characteristic try by Serge Blanco.
▪ Ally Donaldson kicked two penalty goals for Currie and converted a late try by Dean Mack.
▪ Gregory converted the try and as he had also kicked a penalty goal early in the match Nottingham were on their way.
use
▪ Treasure Island Naval Station is set to convert to civilian use when the Navy pulls out in 1997.
▪ I visited one farm that obtained permission to convert a barn for use as a place to pack boxes.
▪ The house felt as if it had been converted to institutional use, someplace impersonal and chill.
▪ To convert a design, use graph paper and mark out blocks of six rows.
▪ This marshy wetland would have easily been converted for their use.
▪ It can also be converted for use as an omnidirectional microphone.
▪ Next is Upton Mill, which has been converted for residential use.
■ VERB
preach
▪ About 5000 people attended a meeting at Mahon where Mr Alexander Moore preached and hundreds were converted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A Swiss company has found a way to convert animal waste into fuel.
▪ Alpha is a religious programme that aims to change your life, not just convert you.
▪ Concerns about cruel farming methods converted her to vegetarianism.
▪ I didn't use to like Indian food, but Cathy's converted me.
▪ My grandmother converted to Hinduism while living in India.
▪ This computer system converts typed words into speech.
▪ We've converted the basement to give the children more room to play.
▪ Within five years, he had converted thousands of Calvinists back to Catholicism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In 1983, the district converted all its junior high schools to schools of choice, doing away with assignment by zone.
▪ The berries are then warmed over slowly burning peat fires until they sprout, a development that converts their starches into sugars.
▪ The Kings, who were 0 for 3 on the power play against Chicago, converted two of four man advantages.
▪ The previously existing subduction zone is converted into a suture zone marking where the two continents are welded together.
▪ The problem began when I converted my 4 x 2 to 4 x 4.
▪ There have been other setbacks-like 160,247 hectares of farmland converted to industrial, residential or commercial uses.
▪ You use these processes to convert your physical state from sleepy and unkempt to bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ Because although economic considerations are normally behind the switch, many new converts rapidly discover they prefer the diesel driving experience.
▪ Others emphasize the radical, sometimes even personally risky, break that a new convert must make.
▪ The next day, Emperor Maximian had the new converts beheaded.
▪ The newest converts back east, he decreed, must come to Utah pushing handcarts.
recent
▪ The young magistrate had embraced orthodoxy with the fervour of a recent convert.
▪ He is white or, if he is black, a recent convert to the missionary Church and a martyr.
▪ Mr Kinnock is a relatively recent convert to revisionism.
■ VERB
become
▪ Brownson followed him the same year, to become the leading lay convert of his day.
▪ He admitted to becoming a convert.
▪ In time, I confess, even I became a convert.
▪ Ditto a few years later, when the coach became an ardent convert to the principles of the triple option.
▪ In fact, they became fervent converts to the idea that centralization was exactly the wrong way to go.
▪ He became a convert after pulling an extraordinary stunt with his Swissmade Kuhn-Rikon pressure cooker.
make
▪ Assuming the same thing happens in the gut, then a vitamin deficiency might make the yeast convert to the hyphal form.
▪ I doubt if they made a single convert on the health issue during the campaign.
win
▪ As a contest it was neither designed to set the pulses racing nor win converts.
▪ It won converts to socialism by making it respectable, exciting and desirable.
▪ The superiority of the Macintosh system would win converts.
▪ The pickled onion on the plate is not likely to win many converts, however.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
preach to the converted/choir
▪ As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this, so he avoided prosecution.
▪ But they will still usually be only the party faithful, so he will find himself preaching to the converted.
▪ He is preaching to the choir of religious-right Protestants and conservative Catholics whose votes should already be locked up.
▪ Not only was he preaching to the choir, he was talking to tax-cutting evangelists.
▪ To some extent this means preaching to the converted.
▪ You're preaching to the converted in us, but you've got to get at everyone else.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a convert to Buddhism
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also patron of converts and divorce.
▪ Because although economic considerations are normally behind the switch, many new converts rapidly discover they prefer the diesel driving experience.
▪ Brownson followed him the same year, to become the leading lay convert of his day.
▪ It was called the Moderation Society, and George Mottram was an early convert.
▪ Now, she is a convert.
▪ The young magistrate had embraced orthodoxy with the fervour of a recent convert.
▪ Yet some people of conscience felt they must not write off these possible converts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convert

Convert \Con*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Converted; p. pr. & vb. n. Converting.] [L. convertere, -versum; con- + vertere to turn: cf. F. convertir. See Verse.]

  1. To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.]

    O, which way shall I first convert myself?
    --B. Jonson.

  2. To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.

    If the whole atmosphere were converted into water.
    --T. Burnet.

    That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.
    --Milton.

  3. To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.

    No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
    --Prescott.

  4. To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.

    He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death.
    --Lames v. 20.

  5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

    When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny.
    --Cooley.

  6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

  7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

  8. To turn into another language; to translate. [Obs.]

    Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted.
    --B. Jonson.

    Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes.
    --Farrow.

    Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

    Syn: To change; turn; transmute; appropriate.

Convert

Convert \Con*vert"\, v. i. To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [the Neboites] would have converted.
--Latimer.

A red dust which converth into worms.
--Sandys.

The public hope And eye to thee converting.
--Thomson.

Convert

Convert \Con"vert\, n.

  1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

    The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images.
    --Bp. Stillingfleet.

  2. A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

    Syn: Proselyte; neophyte.

    Usage: Convert, Proselyte, Pervert. A convert is one who turns from what he believes to have been a decided error of faith or practice. Such a change may relate to religion, politics, or other subjects. properly considered, it is not confined to speculation alone, but affects the whole current of one's feelings and the tenor of his actions. As such a change carries with it the appearance of sincerity, the term convert is usually taken in a good sense. Proselyte is a term of more ambiguous use and application. It was first applied to an adherent of one religious system who had transferred himself externally to some other religious system; and is also applied to one who makes a similar transfer in respect to systems of philosophy or speculation. The term has little or no reference to the state of the heart. Pervert is a term of recent origin, designed to express the contrary of convert, and to stigmatize a person as drawn off perverted from the true faith. It has been more particulary applied by members of the Church of England to those who have joined the Roman Catholic Church.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
convert

c.1300, from Old French convertir, from Vulgar Latin *convertire, from Latin convertere "turn around, transform," from com- "together" (see com-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Originally in the religious sense. The Latin word is glossed in Old English by gecyrren, from cierran "to turn, return." Related: Converted; converting.

convert

1560s, from convert (v.). Earlier was convers (early 14c.).

Wiktionary
convert

n. 1 A person who has converted to his or her religion. 2 A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked. vb. (lb en transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

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WordNet
convert

n. a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief

convert

  1. v. change the nature, purpose, or function of something; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers"

  2. change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy; "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt" [syn: change over]

  3. change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief; "She converted to Buddhism"

  4. exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares" [syn: change, exchange, commute]

  5. cause to adopt a new or different faith; "The missionaries converted the Indian population"

  6. score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the endzone; "Smith converted and his team won"

  7. complete successfully; "score a penalty shot or free throw"

  8. score (a spare)

  9. make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product" [syn: win over, convince]

  10. exchange a penalty for a less severe one [syn: commute, exchange]

  11. change in nature, purpose, or function; especially undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid"

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Wikipedia
Convert (command)

__NOTOC__ In computing, convert is a command-line utility included in the Windows NT operating system line. It is used to convert volumes using the FAT file systems to NTFS.
Command : Type convert drive letter: /fs:ntfs

Usage examples of "convert".

Sulphur, phosphorus, and arsenic are converted into sulphuric, phosphoric, and arsenic acids respectively, when boiled with the strong acid.

They are converted into this form, if none of the stronger acids are present, by simply evaporating with an excess of hydrochloric acid.

Qoran were followed, and, secondly, that the tax into which the duty of almsgiving had been converted was promptly paid, and that the portion of it intended for the central fund at Medina was duly delivered.

Most antiabortion activists, for example, have openly discouraged legislative allies from even pursuing those compromise measures that would have significantly reduced the incidence of the procedure popularly known as partial-birth abortion, because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.

Every gram of antihydrogen would meet a gram of normal matter and convert to energy at one hundred percent efficiency.

Born a Jew, he had renounced his religion and became a Greek Sophist, practised law at Scio, and heard Paul at Mars Hill, where, with Dionysius the Areopagite, with whom he was visiting, he was converted.

Nero himself excelled, or affected to excel, in the elegant arts of music and poetry: nor should we despise his pursuits, had he not converted the pleasing relaxation of a leisure hour into the serious business and ambition of his life.

They were not yet converted, but they knew that not far away, over toward Assisi, were living men who had renounced all worldly goods, and who, consumed with zeal, were going up and down preaching penitence and peace.

In an eerie echo of the Avestic traditions, a land which had previously enjoyed seven months of summer was converted almost overnight into a land of ice and snow with ten months of harsh and frozen winter.

Martyrdom and pledged to establish nineteen spiritual assemblies in the British Isles, double the number of assemblies in the Indian subcontinent, establish ninety-five new centers of the Faith in Persia, convert the groups in Bahrein, Mecca and Kabul into assemblies and plant the banner of the Faith in the Arabian territories of Yemen, Oman, Ahsa and Kuweit.

But when we recollect with how much ease, in the more ancient civil wars, the zeal of party and the habits of military obedience had converted the native citizens of Rome into her most implacable enemies, we shall be inclined to distrust this extreme delicacy of strangers and barbarians, who had never beheld Italy till they entered it in a hostile manner.

Miss Bingley offered her the carriage, and she only wanted a little pressing to accept it, when Jane testified such concern in parting with her that Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer of the chaise into an invitation to remain at Netherfield for the present.

As the train gasped slowly up the grade and rolled bumpily at last along the fertile, neglected Syrian highland, all the Armenians on the train removed their hats and substituted the red tarboosh, preferring the headgear of a convert rather than be the target of every Bedouin with a rifle in his hand.

Judson having decided to commence a course of public preaching to the natives, thought best to secure the assistance of a native convert from the province of Arracan, who spoke the Burman language, to assist him in his first public efforts.

Robert looked at the overgrown orange trees, cassina, and sea myrtle, and he recalled the excitement he had felt as a boy when Uncle Ravenal had told him about the Franciscan friars who had come from Santo Domingo almost three centuries before to convert the coastal Indians to the cross, only to be massacred for their efforts.