(v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.
(v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.
(v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.
(v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
(v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
(v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.
(v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.
(n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.
(n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(3) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(4) Only small amounts of 3H oleic acid were converted.
(5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(6) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(7) DR was not demonstrably converted to R in these studies.
(8) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(9) The hemodynamic effects of captopril and other angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors may be mediated by the endogenous opioid system.
(10) The 1-0-methylalduronic-acidmethylesters, obtained by the methanolysis of the polysaccharides, are reduced with boronhydrid to the corresponding methyl glycosides; there are split with acid to the aldoses, which are converted in pyridine with hydroxylamine to the aldoximes and than with acetic anhydride to the aldonitrilacetates, which can be separated by gaschromatography without difficulty.
(11) Moreover, the ribosylation inhibitors converted the glucocorticoid antagonist RU-486 into a potent agonist for cytolysis of L1210 cells.
(12) Two EGZ-derived proteins were engineered in which either His98 or Glu133 amino acid was converted to an Ala residue.
(13) The rate of indole production is increased about 4-fold when the aminoacrylate produced is converted to S-(hydroxyethyl)-L-cysteine by a coupled beta-replacement reaction with beta-mercaptoethanol.
(14) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
(15) The fucose-labeled glycoproteins were converted to glycopeptides by pronase digestion and separated into two major classes by gel filtration on Sephadex-G-50.
(16) We conclude that systemic converting enzyme activity, assessed by in vivo measurement and correlation of PRA and AII, is not inhibited by severe hypoxia.
(17) 17-Isoaldosterone was not secreted or converted to aldosterone to any significant extent in the normal subjects investigated.
(18) Allyl 4-O-benzyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-3-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside and this was condensed with 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl chloride to give a disaccharide derivative which was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-2-O-(2,3-O-isopropylidene-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-3-O-methyl -alpha- L-rhamnopyranoside.
(19) In order to increase the efficiency of androgen blockade, we have used 4-MA, an inhibitor of 5 alpha-reductase, the enzyme which converts testosterone into DHT, to reduce intracellular DHT concentrations and thus facilitate the action of the antiandrogen Flutamide.
(20) In addition, we have demonstrated that the recombinant 17-kD precursor protein can be converted to the 15-kD protein by cytoplasmic extracts of human cells.
Transfigure
Definition:
(v. t.) To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
(v. t.) Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is too early to say and may well turn out to be none of the above, but a transfiguration unique to its time and place.
(2) The Crystal World is surely Ballard's most gorgeous calamity: apocalypse not as abolition but as transfiguration.
(3) With more than 3 years' follow-up, dramatic clinical transfiguration of granuloma annulare was observed in a 59-year-old man with perforating granuloma annulare.
(4) It was only at the end of his life that he wrote poems undisguisedly about those he loved, his partner and his children, and they too take the form of anecdotes, transfigured by feeling and an exact instinct for how feeling may be expressed.
(5) In the Gospels, the metamorphosis caused by the epileptic seizure is used as a simile for Christ's transfiguration through suffering, death, and resurrection.
(6) But finally, it is Sandy who, before she becomes Sister Helena of the Transfiguration, exacts the decisive revenge that will doom her teacher to a bitter and solitary spinsterhood.
(7) Differentiation sequences and further transfiguration of glycogen-rich cells during placenta development were investigated for the rat and field vole Microtus subarvalis (11-20 day gestation).
(8) In The Cenotaph To Reynolds' Memory, Coleorton, he was surely mourning more than Sir Joshua (by this time Maria herself was dead) but, however complex, Constable's grief is transfiguring.
(9) His work reveals uncanny, almost unnatural powers of visual transfiguration, as waterlogged lecture halls transform themselves into the canals of Venice, piles of old books meld into the New York city skyline, an old tumble dryer becomes a spacecraft's docking bay.
(10) We cannot emphasize the structural solutions and leave intact the racial sightline that led to Michael Brown’s transfiguration into a “demon”.
(11) Raphael's last painting reveals, in the upper half of the picture, Christ's transfiguration on Mount Tabor and, in the lower half, the young boy's epileptic seizure at the foot of the mountain in the presence of the other disciples.
(12) With regard to this last subject, other problems appear as the problem on bereavement, mourning and anaclisis or the transfiguration of the lost object by means of the apprehension of its sense.
(13) The pop-up owes a little to the idea, very big in leftwing circles in the 90s, of the "temporary autonomous zone", where for a moment or a week or a month, space would be transfigured and people would live different lives to the usual run of work-leisure-work.
(14) In this morphometric study, light microscopy wa used to analyze the larval maturation and metamorphic transfiguration of the adductor jaw muscles in the leopard frog (Rana pipiens).
(15) Sad!” A top Trump surrogate, Paul Manafort, told Republican officials last week that Trump was about to transfigure his persona and that “the part he’s been playing is evolving”.
(16) Element-by-element treatment used for quantitative transfiguration of images allowed to reveal the concerned details of the eye fundus images.
(17) These stereoscopical observations of age-related transfiguration of testicular microvasculature were ascertained also by histometrical examinations.
(18) His stage presence is quite without amplitude; and his face, except when, temporarily, make-up transfigures it, is a signless zero."