Convert

[kən'vɜːt] or [kən'vɝt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief.

(verb.) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; 'The substance converts to an acid'.

(verb.) change the nature, purpose, or function of something; 'convert lead into gold'; 'convert hotels into jails'; 'convert slaves to laborers'.

(verb.) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy; 'We converted from 220 to 110 Volt'.

(verb.) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief; 'She converted to Buddhism'.

(verb.) cause to adopt a new or different faith; 'The missionaries converted the Indian population'.

(verb.) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; 'He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product'.

(verb.) score (a spare) .

(verb.) complete successfully; 'score a penalty shot or free throw'.

(verb.) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone; 'Smith converted and his team won'.

錄入:玛丽--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

(v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

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

(v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.

(v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

(n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

(n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

整理:斯图

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Transmute, transform, change.[2]. Interchange, transpose.[3]. Appropriate, apply.

整理:胡安妮塔

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Change, alter, transmute, transform, apply, appropriate, turn

ANT:Conserve, perpetuate, stabilitate,[See {Q1409 stereotype}?], clinch, alienate,divert, misappropriate, misapply

埃维塔校對

解釋/意思:

v.t. to change or turn from one thing condition or religion to another: to change from an irreligious to a holy life: to alter one thing into another: to apply to a particular purpose.—n. Con′vert one converted: one who has become religious or who has changed his religion.—adj. Con′verse reversed in order or relation.—n. that which is the opposite of another: a proposition converted or turned about—i.e. one in which the subject and predicate have changed places.—adv. Con′versely.—ns. Conver′sion change from one thing state or religion to another: (theol.) the conscious change of heart impelling the repentant sinner to a new life: appropriation to a special purpose: (logic) act of interchanging the terms of a proposition; Con′vertend the proposition to be converted; Convert′er one who converts: a vessel in which materials are changed from one condition to another; Convertibil′ity Convert′ibleness.—adjs. Convert′ible Conver′sive (obs.) that may be converted: equivalent.—adv. Convert′ibly.—n. Con′vertite a convert a reformed woman.

編輯:尼特