How to pronounce “convert”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
• (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
• (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
• (transitive) 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.
• (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• (ambitransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• (American football) To score extra points following a touchdown.
• (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
• (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
• (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• (intransitive) To become converted.
• (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
• (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
• (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
• (transitive, cricket) 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.
• (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
• (ambitransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
• [Noun]
• A person who has converted to a religion.
• A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
• Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
• (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

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