convert🔊

To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.

To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief.

To exchange for something of equal value.

To express (a quantity) in alternative units.

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.

(law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.

(rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

(American football) To score extra points following a touchdown.

(soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).

(ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.

To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief.

To become converted.

(obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.

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

(obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.

(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.

(marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.

(chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.

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.