Betekenis van convert In het Nederlands

• 0 to (cause something or someone to) change in form or character:

  • Could we convert the small bedroom into a second bathroom?

  • What's the formula for converting pounds into kilograms?

  • He converted to (= started believing in) Catholicism when he got married.

  • I used to hate exercise, but my sister has converted me (to it).

• 1 in sport , to score extra points such as a conversion, free throw, or penalty shot

• 2 someone who changes their beliefs, habits, or way of living:

  • a Christian/Buddhist convert

  • a convert to vegetarianism/wholemeal bread

• 3 to change the character, appearance, or operation of something:

  • [ T ] We converted our oil furnace to gas to save money.

  • [ I ] Most of the families in the community converted recently.

  • [ T ] My kids are trying to convert me to country music.

• 4 someone who accepts a new religion or belief:

  • The candidate won millions of converts to his tax proposal.

  • Jim called himself a new convert to the Republican Party.

• 5 to change from one type of system or organization to another, or to make something do this:

  • convert into/to sth At the end of the 1990s, many building societies converted into banks.

  • convert sth into/to sth A trade regime was introduced requiring countries to convert import quotas to tariffs.

• 6 to exchange one type of currency, share, etc. for another:

  • convert sth (from sth) into/to sth They had converted all their cash from pounds into dollars.

  • Investors have the option of converting bonds into equity

  • convert sth (from sth) into sth They were successfully converted from a traditional retailing outlet into a dot.com operation.

• 7 to change computer data so that it can be read by a different software program:

  • Images can be scanned, converted and saved to a specific folder.

  • convert sth (from sth) into sth Most programs will easily convert text from one file format into another.