The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transform \Trans*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transformed; p. pr. & vb. n. Transforming.] [L. transformare, transformatum; trans across, over + formare to from: cf. F. transformer. See Form, v. t.]
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To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
Love may transform me to an oyster.
--Shak. To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
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To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
--Rom. xii. 2. (Math.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.
Wiktionary
n. transformation vb. (present participle of transform English)
Usage examples of "transforming".
I would like to especially single out the work of Michael Murphy, whose book The future of the body is a magnificent study of the bodily correlates of a transforming and evolving consciousnessyet more evidence that all manifest holons anywhere possess the four quadrants.
In seconds, the car unfolded, piece by piece, transforming into Jazz, the third and final Autobot on the scene.
Bumblebee, transforming back into robot form, jumped to his feet to attack the Decepticon, but before he could make a move a series of ripping explosions blew up around Long Haul, destroying what little was left of the supermarket.
Starscream changed, transforming himself into robotic form and landing in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard, right in front of Prowl.
When anything threatened them, Trent discourage it either by drawing his sword or by transforming it to something harmless.
He had stood before her, sword in hand, bluffing the creatures back--and transforming those who attacked anyway to caterpillars.
Down through the centuries and into our own day, Christian mystics, monks and nuns living in monasteries, hermits, and countless seekers living in the world have yielded to the transforming power of the Spirit of God within us.
When I was living as a monk in a monastery that followed the Rule of Saint Benedict, I experienced directly the transforming power of the practice of silence.
But as you know if you have been meditating very long at all, actual fidelity to this simple, transforming path can be quite demanding.
As long as the transforming power of faith has yet to penetrate and transform the roots of consciousness itself, we are like a caterpillar with wings.
The opposite is true: in meditation, we open ourselves to the transforming realization of our oneness with the mystery we seek, manifesting itself in and as our experience of this oneness.
It is a question of transforming a necessity imposed on the multitude-a necessity that was to a certain extent solicited by the multitude itself throughout modernity as a line of flight from localized misery and exploitationinto a condition of possibility of liberation, a new possibility on this new terrain of humanity.
In those origins of modernity, then, knowledge shifted from the transcendent plane to the immanent, and consequently, that human knowledge became a doing, a practice of transforming nature.
It is a philosophy that renewed the splendors of revolutionary humanism, putting humanity and nature in the position of God, transforming the world into a territory of practice, and affirming the democracy of the multitude as the absolute form of politics.
The second mode of modernity needed above all to guarantee its control over the new figures of social production both in Europe and in the colonial spaces in order to rule and prof it from the new forces that were transforming nature.