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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.vət/
Pronunciation (ENPR): kŏn'vûrt

Definition 1:
• A person who has converted to a religion.
Example: They were all converts to Islam.

Definition 2:
• A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
Example: I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!

Definition 3:
• Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.

Definition 4:
• The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
Labels: ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, Canadian
Verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈvɜːt/
Pronunciation (ENPR): kənvûrt'

Definition 1:
• To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
Example: A kettle converts water into steam.
Labels: transitive

Definition 2:
• To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
Example: He converted his garden into a tennis court.
Labels: transitive

Definition 3:
• To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
Example: They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
Labels: transitive

Definition 4:
• To exchange for something of equal value.
Example: We converted our pounds into euros.
Labels: transitive

Definition 5:
• To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
Labels: transitive

Definition 6:
• To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
Example: How do you convert feet into metres?
Labels: transitive

Definition 7:
• To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
Labels: law, transitive

Definition 8:
• To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
Labels: ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports, ambitransitive

Definition 9:
• To score extra points following a touchdown.
Labels: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Definition 10:
• To score (especially a penalty kick).
Labels: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports, intransitive, transitive

Definition 11:
• To score a spare.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 12:
• To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
Example: We've converted to Methodism.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 13:
• To become converted.
Example: The chair converts into a bed.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 14:
• To cause to turn; to turn.
Labels: obsolete, transitive

Definition 15:
• To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
Labels: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences, transitive

Definition 16:
• To turn into another language; to translate.
Labels: obsolete, transitive

Definition 17:
• To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
Labels: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, transitive

Definition 18:
• To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
Example: Each time a user clicks on one of your adverts, you will be charged the bid amount whether the user converts or not.
Labels: business, marketing, intransitive

Definition 19:
• To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
Labels: board-games, chess, games, ambitransitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/convert