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| 1. v. To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product. |  |
| A kettle converts water into steam. | |
| 2. v. To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another. | |
| He converted his garden into a tennis court. | |
| 3. v. To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11). | |
| They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed. | |
| 4. v. To exchange for something of equal value. | |
| We converted our pounds into euros. | |
| 5. v. To express (a quantity) in alternative units. | |
| 6. v. 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. | |
| How do you convert feet into metres? | |
| 7. v. (transitive, legal) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion. | |
| 8. v. (ambitransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick). | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3). | |
| We’ve converted to Methodism. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To become converted. | |
| The chair converts into a bed. | |
| 13. v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn. | |
| 14. v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, cricket) 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. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion. | |
| 18. n. A person who has converted to a religion. | |
| They were all converts to Islam. | |
| 19. n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked. | |
| I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert! | |
| 20. n. (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby | |
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