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Convert

verb

(past & past part. converted; pres. part. converting)

1.

Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy. Synonym: change over.

2.

Change the nature, purpose, or function of something. "Convert hotels into jails" , "Convert slaves to laborers"

3.

Change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief.

4.

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category. Synonyms: change, commute, exchange. "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"

5.

Cause to adopt a new or different faith.

6.

Score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone.

7.

Complete successfully.

8.

Score (a spare).

9.

Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something. Synonyms: convince, win over.

10.

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one. Synonyms: commute, exchange.

11.

Change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change.

noun

1.

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

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"Convert" Quotes from Famous Books

... name. The first Christian missionaries, perceiving the extreme popularity of this feast, thought it best to encourage drinking to the health of the Lord and his twelve apostles when they first began to convert the Northern heathens. In honour of Frey, boar's flesh was eaten on this occasion. Crowned with laurel and rosemary, the animal's head was brought into the banqueting-hall with much ceremony—a custom long after observed, as the ...

— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber

... English, devoid of any conscious mannerisms whatsoever. The writer has aimed at the utmost literal fidelity consistent with the observance of all the usages of current standard English; he has not attempted, however, to convert the explosive appositions, with prevailing asyndeton and excessive synonymy, of his original into the easy, flowing sentences more familiar to modern eyes and ears, for the change would sacrifice altogether too much of the ...

— Genesis A - Translated from the Old English • Anonymous

... converted atheists. These turn often into dangerous fanatics, but the soul remains the same. After he had got acquainted with the girl, there are to be met in that diary of his very queer politico-amorous rhapsodies. He took her sovereign grimaces with deadly seriousness. He longed to convert her. But all this cannot interest you. For the rest, I don't know if you remember—it is a good many years ago now—the journalistic sensation of the 'Hermione Street Mystery'; the finding of a man's body in the cellar of an empty house; ...

— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad

... I expect to convert you; but at least I am glad to make my position clear. I don't assume that I am in the right. I only know that I am trying to do what appears to me to be right, trying to simplify the issues of life, to ...

— Beside Still Waters • Arthur Christopher Benson

... space to show how Justus, forgetful of his injudicious predecessor, grievously smote Moto, the husband of Matui, for his brutality; how Moto was startled, but being released from the fear of instant death, took heart and became the faithful ally and first convert of Justus; how the little gathering grew, to the huge disgust of Athon Daze; how the Priest of the God of Things as They Are argued subtilely with the Priest of the God of Things as They Should Be, and was worsted; how the dues of the Temple of Dungara fell away in ...

— Soldiers Three • Rudyard Kipling

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