convert

CEFRB1

/kənˈvɜːt/

verb

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

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You must convert dollars into the local currency.
He converted his garden into a tennis court.
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth if the whole atmosphere were converted into water

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That ſtill leſſens / The ſorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.
1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCL...
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist
Bass also kicked field goals of 40 and 49 yards, but he also missed a point-after try, which led to a 2-point conversion that the Bills converted later in the game.
2024 November 3, Jon Scott, Tommy Gallagher, “61 yards to victory: Bills ride another 2nd-half surge, beat Dolphins”, in WGRZ
While still in this relationship, Greene, a convert to Roman Catholicism at 23, was asked to be godfather to Catherine Walston, a 30-year-old married woman, at her own conversion.
2004, Ted Jones, chapter 3, in The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, published 2007, →ISBN, page 64
A great advantage of these temporary conversions of a man into a beast is that it enables the convert in his animal shape to pay out his enemy without being suspected.
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207

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From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).