Hyphenation of converting

Definition 1 as verb

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  To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

  Example: A kettle converts water into steam.

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  To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.

  Example: He converted his garden into a tennis court.

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  To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).

  Example: They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.

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  To exchange for something of equal value.

  Example: We converted our pounds into euros.

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  To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
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  To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.

  Example: How do you convert feet into metres?

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  To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
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  (rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
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  To score (especially a penalty kick).
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  (ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
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  To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).

  Example: We’ve converted to Methodism.

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  To become converted.

  Example: The chair converts into a bed.

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  To cause to turn; to turn.
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  To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
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  To turn into another language; to translate.
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  To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
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  To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.

  Example: Each time a user clicks on one of your adverts, you will be charged the bid amount whether the user converts or not.