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verb

Transform v. t. (past & past part. transformed; pres. part. transforming)

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."

To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert. "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."

(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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Transform" Quotes from Famous Books

... great deal in recent years about making education a profession. I do not like that term myself. Education is not a profession in the sense that medicine and law are professions. It is rather a craft, for its duty is to produce, to mold, to fashion, to transform a certain raw material into a useful product. And, like all crafts, education must possess the craft spirit. It must have a certain code of craft ethics; it must have certain standards of craft excellence and efficiency. And in these the normal school must ...

— Craftsmanship in Teaching • William Chandler Bagley

... of good report. That righteousness which faith receives is no mere forensic treating of the unjust as just, but whilst it does bring with it pardon and oblivion from past transgressions, it makes a man in the depths of his being righteous, however slowly it may afterwards transform his conduct. The faith which is a departure from all reliance on works of righteousness which we have done, and is a single-eyed reliance on the work of Jesus Christ, opens the heart in which it is planted to all the influences of that ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

... officers and men engaged on the work were ex-soldiers accustomed to the use of arms. The construction trains and in fact all of the workers were liberally supplied with arms, principally rifles, and it was the boast that ten minutes any time was long enough to transform a gang of graders or track layers into a battalion of infantry. Every man on the work was armed, and it was the custom for the graders to carry their guns to and from their work, keeping them stacked within easy distance while ...

— The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad - Its Projectors, Construction and History • W. F. Bailey

... owl is a bird with a disagreeable scream, instead of a beautiful note; but the mulberries grown about the college would make them sing delightfully. And so would the influence of L, going forth from the college, transform the nature of ...

— The Shih King • James Legge

... not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

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