Conversion
[kən'vɜːʃ(ə)n] or [kən'vɝʒn]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Lola--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Marty
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Transmutation, transformation, change.[2]. Interchange, transposition.
Typist: Sophie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Change, alteration, transmutation, transformation, intercharge
ANT:Persistence, permanence, conservation, retention, identity
Checker: Zelig
Examples
- Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. Plato. The Republic.
- To Ph?nicians after the falls of Tyre and Carthage, conversion to Judaism must have been particularly easy and attractive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had a passion for the argumentative conversion of heretics, and he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to go and preach to the Albigenses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It preached Romanism; it persuaded to conversion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This conversion arises from the relation of objects to ourself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The love of honour turns to love of money; the conversion is instantaneous. Plato. The Republic.
- Gun cotton is made by treating raw cotton with nitric acid, to which a proportion of sulphuric acid is added to maintain the strength of the nitric acid and effect a more perfect conversion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Great hopes were entertained by the papacy for the conversion of the Mongols to Christianity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- However natural that conversion may seem, we cannot be sure it is practicable, before we have had experience of it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In sympathy there is an evident conversion of an idea into an impression. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries a steady process of conversion to Christianity went on amidst these German and Slavonic tribes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But let me see one of you that would take one into your house with you, and take the labor of their conversion on yourselves! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Such a conversion is called work as distinguished from drop, although a fall of initial electrical pressure is involved in each case. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Go to, knave, what pratest thou of conversions? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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