Definition of Convert

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Convert

To cause to turn; to turn.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

To turn into another language; to translate.

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

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.

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.

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Convert Quotations

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Ann Coulter

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Thomas Carlyle

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
Kanye West

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Angela Davis

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
David Hackworth

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson

Convert Translations

convert in Afrikaans is bekeer
convert in Dutch is bekeren
convert in French is convertir, transcrire, convertissez, convertis
convert in German is umformen, konvertieren, umwandeln
convert in Italian is commutare
convert in Portuguese is converso
convert in Spanish is transformar, convertir

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