<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to change (something) into a different form or properties; transmute; transform.</li><li>to cause to adopt a different religion, political doctrine, opinion, etc.: to convert the heathen.</li><li>to turn to another or a particular use or purpose; divert from the original or intended use: They converted the study into a nursery for the baby.</li><li>to modify (something) so as to serve a different function: to convert an automobile factory to the manufacture of tanks.</li><li>to obtain an equivalent value for in an exchange or calculation, as money or units of measurement: to convert bank notes into gold; to convert yards into meters.</li><li>Finance. to exchange voluntarily (a bond or preferred stock) into another security, usually common stock, because of the greater value of the latter.</li><li>to change in character; cause to turn from an evil life to a righteous one: to convert a criminal.</li><li>Chemistry. to cause (a substance) to undergo a chemical change: to convert sugar into alcohol.</li><li>to invert or transpose.</li><li>Law. to assume unlawful rights of ownership of (personal property).</li><li>to change the form of (property), as from realty to personalty or vice versa.</li><li>to appropriate wrongfully to one's own use.</li><li>Logic. to transpose the subject and predicate of (a proposition) by conversion.</li><li>Computers. to subject to conversion.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to become converted.</li><li>Football. to make a conversion.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>one who has been converted, as to a religion or opinion.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>neophyte, proselyte, novice.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>