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Transform   /trænsfˈɔrm/  /trˈænsfɔrm/   Listen
verb
Transform  v. t.  (past & past part. transformed; pres. part. transforming)  
1.
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."
2.
To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
3.
To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert. "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."
4.
(Math.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.



Transform  v. i.  To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. (R.) "His hair transforms to down."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Transform" Quotes from Famous Books



... empire without asking himself if the new nations that he subjects may not disorganise, adulterate, and impregnate his old and hitherto faithful people with every error. What if all the schismatical nations on returning to the Catholic Church should so transform it as to kill it and make it a new Church? There is only one wise course, which is to be what one is, and that firmly. Again, isn't there both shame and danger in that pretended alliance with the ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... is also magic in the arrangement of the menus, in the combinations of food, in the very names of the confections and in the little Gallic touches that, simple though they are, transform commonplace dishes into ...
— Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them • Cora Moore

... tree, bush, vine, and flower we planted. Here our children have been born, lived, loved, and left us; some for the graveyard down yonder, some for homes of their own. Always we have planned and striven to transform this into the dearest, the most beautiful spot on earth. In making our home the best we can, in improving our township, county, and state, we are doing our ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter

... The dreadful sense of helplessness, the crushing weight of necessity, seemed to choke me. The smooth white walls, the smooth white ceiling, seemed squeezing in closer and closer on me, and yet dilating into vast inane infinities, just as the merest knot of mould will transform itself, as one watches it, and nothing else, into enormous cliffs, long slopes of moor, and spurs of mountain-range. Oh, those smooth white walls and ceilings! If there had but been a print—a stain of dirt—a cobweb, to fleck their unbroken ghastliness! They stared at me, like grim, impassive, ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

... says to his wife: "Look at the man whose desire is life. Sleep has fallen upon him like a storm." Says the wife to Parnapishtim: "Transform him, let the man eat of the charm-root,[986] Let him return, restored in health, on the road that he came. Through the gage let him pass out, back to his country." Parnapishtim says to his wife: "The torture of the man pains thee. Cook ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow


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