| has gloss | (verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers"
convert |
| lexicalization | eng: convert |
| subclass of | (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
alter, change, modify |
| has subclass | (verb) convert to caramel
caramelise, caramelize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert (an image) into pixels
rasterize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert (plant remains) into humus
humify |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into a verb; "many English nouns have become verbalized"
verbalize, verbalise |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into spores
sporulate |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author novelized the historical event"
fictionalise, fictionalize, novelise, novelize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
deaden |
| has subclass | (verb) replace or convert into opal; "opalized tree trunks"
opalise, opalize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals"
receive |
| has subclass | (verb) convert back; "Hollywood is reconverting old films"
reconvert |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into malt
malt |
| has subclass | (verb) convert grain into malt
malt |
| has subclass | (verb) bring (a country or people) under feudalism
feudalize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert grain into flour
flour |
| has subclass | (verb) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"
reclaim |
| has subclass | (verb) cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
work, ferment |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria
nitrify |
| has subclass | (verb) convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"
fossilize, fossilise |
| has subclass | (verb) treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
tan |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into leather; "dress the tanned skins"
dress |
| has subclass | (verb) convert to compost; "compost organic debris"
compost |
| has subclass | (verb) cause to convert or undergo a transition; "the company had to transition the old practices to modern technology"
transition |
| has subclass | (verb) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
transcribe |
| has subclass | (verb) make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts"
scrap |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into keratin
keratinize, keratinise |
| has subclass | (verb) convert (an amine) into a diazo compound
diazotize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert (plant material) into hay
hay |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody
lignify |
| has subclass | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore
mineralize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into a mineral substance
mineralize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert (oxygen) into ozone
ozonise, ozonize |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into slag
slag |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into a sulfate
sulfate |
| has subclass | (verb) convert into cutin
cutinize |
| has subclass | (verb) change into a duplex
duplex |
| has subclass | (verb) convert information into code; "encode pictures digitally"
encode |