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▸ verb: (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
▸ verb: (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
▸ verb: (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
▸ verb: (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
▸ verb: (transitive) 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.
▸ verb: (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
▸ verb: (American football) To score extra points following a touchdown.
▸ verb: (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
▸ verb: (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become converted.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
▸ verb: (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
▸ noun: A person who has converted to a religion.
▸ noun: A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
▸ noun: Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
▸ noun: (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
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change,
change over,
exchange,
commute,
turn,
convince,
win over,
reconvert,
conversion,
transform,
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