converting
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Definitions ofconverting
- To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
Example: "A kettle converts water into steam."
- To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
Example: "He converted his garden into a tennis court."
- 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."
- To exchange for something of equal value.
Example: "We converted our pounds into euros."
- To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- 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?"
- To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- (rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- To score (especially a penalty kick).
- (ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
- To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
Example: "We’ve converted to Methodism."
- To become converted.
Example: "The chair converts into a bed."
- To cause to turn; to turn.
- 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 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.
- 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."
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