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verb

Convert v. t. (past & past part. converted; pres. part. converting)

1.

To cause to turn; to turn. (Obs.) "O, which way shall I first convert myself?"

2.

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. "If the whole atmosphere were converted into water." "That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy."

3.

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. "No attempt was made to convert the Moslems."

4.

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. "He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death."

5.

To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. "When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, (it was) held no larceny."

6.

To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

7.

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

8.

To turn into another language; to translate. (Obs.) "Which story... Catullus more elegantly converted."

Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes.

Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

Synonyms: To change; turn; transmute; appropriate.

Convert v. i. To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally. "If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they (the Neboites) would have converted." "A red dust which converth into worms." "The public hope And eye to thee converting."

adjective

converted adj. Spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.

Synonyms: born-again, reborn.

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Etymology of 'Converted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Converted" Quotes from Famous Books

... provisional army was now at once begun. Washington accepted the chief command on condition that Hamilton should have the second place. There were already a few vessels in the navy. A Navy Department was now organized. The building of more warships was begun, and merchant vessels were bought and converted into cruisers. French privateers sailed along the American coasts and captured American vessels off the entrances of the principal harbors. But this did not last long. For the American warships drove the privateers to the West ...

— A Short History of the United States • Edward Channing

... and the author of the "Continuation" refers to the circumstance as a proof that the King had long entertained a strong feeling on the subject. Unhappily it proves only the utter insincerity of all the King's later professions. If he had pretended to be converted to the doctrines of toleration after his accession to the throne, some credit might have been due to him. But we know most certainly that, in 1679, and long after that year, James was a most bloody and remorseless persecutor. After 1679, he was placed at the ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Ballarat. Before the government could take any steps for suppressing it the news had spread and the excitement began. The stories were greatly exaggerated, and many people came here believing that they had only to shovel the gold from the ground into barrels and boxes, and send it away to be converted into coin. That was the beginning of the gold rush, and a rush it was, ...

— The Land of the Kangaroo - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent • Thomas Wallace Knox

... and Iphigenia," has told the story of a clown converted into a gentleman by the power of love, in a way that shows traces of kindred to the old story of Galatea and ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... circumference of the pipe. A larger hole in the side of the can sufficed for a door and he squeezed the end of the exhaust pipe into the hole he had made for it, and presto! there was a very serviceable makeshift stove with the exhaust system of the engine converted into a draught ...

— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh

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