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/kənvˈərtɪd/ Listen

verb

Convert v. t. (past & past part. converted; pres. part. converting)

1.

To cause to turn; to turn. (Obs.) "O, which way shall I first convert myself?"

2.

To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice. "If the whole atmosphere were converted into water." "That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy."

3.

To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. "No attempt was made to convert the Moslems."

4.

To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. "He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death."

5.

To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. "When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, (it was) held no larceny."

6.

To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

7.

(Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

8.

To turn into another language; to translate. (Obs.) "Which story... Catullus more elegantly converted."

Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes.

Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

Synonyms: To change; turn; transmute; appropriate.

Convert v. i. To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally. "If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they (the Neboites) would have converted." "A red dust which converth into worms." "The public hope And eye to thee converting."

adjective

converted adj. Spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.

Synonyms: born-again, reborn.

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Etymology of 'Converted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Converted" Quotes from Famous Books

... spirits no longer. I may mention that this insight into an immaterial world (he having been inclined before to pyrrhonism) quite altered his career, and that soon after he took holy orders. In this connection I may state, that according to a printed account I have seen, both Mr. and Mrs. Hall were converted from avowed materialism by spirit manifestation, and that when the question of "Cui bono?" is raised, his experience and that of divers others (the aforesaid Dr. Chambers in particular) will avouch for the practical usefulness ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... midst of our misery "Stand to!" was sounded, necessitating the dropping of all our skin troubles and skedaddling to get to the guns. We ran across an open field that had been converted into a graveyard after the French drove the Germans over on to Vimy Ridge, but there was no thought of sacrilege in our minds as we raced pell-mell over the grave-filled land; there never is but one thought in our minds; we are, every man of us, souls with but a single thought when "Stand ...

— S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant

... at least, we are "not under theological government," and that was a maxim worth asserting at a time when the dicta of Matthew Arnold and Ruskin were being converted into shibboleths. It is necessary for happiness no less than for honesty that we should realise that poetry, music, and pictures are personal things; that what they are worth to us is their sole measure of value. And here it must be ...

— Personality in Literature • Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

... the mill between his knees, and converted the beans to powder, to the tune of "Old dog Tray" through his nose, which Miss Mattie ...

— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips

... interest in Anette, lingered; it existed in him tangibly, a thing of the flesh, not to be denied. She was all prostitute, Mina Raff had said, using the word in a general sense rather than particularly, without an obvious condemning morality. Indeed, it might easily be converted into a term of praise, for what, necessarily, it described was the incentive that forever drove men out to difficult accomplishment, to anything rather than ease. Good or bad, bad or good—which, such ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

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