Conversion

[kən'vɜːʃ(ə)n] or [kən'vɝʒn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life.

(noun.) a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown.

(noun.) the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another.

(noun.) act of exchanging one type of money or security for another.

(noun.) a change in the units or form of an expression: 'conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade'.

(noun.) interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition.

(noun.) a change of religion; 'his conversion to the Catholic faith'.

(noun.) an event that results in a transformation.

(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis.

編輯:洛拉--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

(n.) The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.

(n.) An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.

(n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.

(n.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.

(n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.

(n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.

(n.) A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.

校對:马蒂

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Transmutation, transformation, change.[2]. Interchange, transposition.

手打:索菲

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Change, alteration, transmutation, transformation, intercharge

ANT:Persistence, permanence, conservation, retention, identity

校對:齐利格