Definitions for convert

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convert con·vert

Spelling: [verb kuh n-vurt; noun

IPA: /verb kənˈvɜrt; noun ˈkɒn vɜrt/

Convert is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in convert (cenortv).

Definitions for convert

noun

1. one who has been converted, as to a religion or opinion.
2. a convertible automobile.
3. a convertible bond.

verb (used with object)

1. to change (something) into a different form or properties; transmute; transform.
2. to cause to adopt a different religion, political doctrine, opinion, etc.:
3. to turn to another or a particular use or purpose; divert from the original or intended use:
4. to modify (something) so as to serve a different function:
5. to obtain an equivalent value for in an exchange or calculation, as money or units of measurement:
6. Finance. to exchange voluntarily (a bond or preferred stock) into another security, usually common stock, because of the greater value of the latter.
7. to change in character; cause to turn from an evil life to a righteous one:
8. Chemistry. to cause (a substance) to undergo a chemical change:
9. to invert or transpose.
10. Law. to assume unlawful rights of ownership of (personal property). to change the form of (property), as from realty to personalty or vice versa.
11. to appropriate wrongfully to one's own use.
12. Logic. to transpose the subject and predicate of (a proposition) by conversion.
13. Computers. to subject to conversion.

verb (used without object)

1. to become converted.
2. Football. to make a conversion.

Origin of convert

1250-1300; Middle English converten Latin convertere to change completely, equivalent to con- con- + vertere to turn round (see verse); conve

Examples for convert

Those who denied a Divine Redeemer were not likely to convert a world.

Much of it, apparently, he will convert into that champagne he now drinks.

And to think that Rachel and I wasted our time trying to convert him!

“The two most dangerous types of people are poor who become rich and those who convert to Islam,” observed one man from Snuny.

Think of a slave trying to convert a free man to a slave religion.

There is also “other” and “willing to convert” (more on those categories later).

So once more, as in 1886, they--the preacher and his convert--are together.

In the last conversation, now, several days ago, the girls said they had been told to convert to Islam or die.

Be a good citizen, and heaven awaits; fail to convert and lead a moral life, burn in hell.

This 18-hour trip was in a less nice room, but one that had two seats that convert into a bed.