To
cause to turn; to turn.
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.
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.
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.
To apply to any use by a diversion
from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or
illegally.
To exchange for some specified
equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
To change (one
proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the
first becomes the predicate of the second.
To turn into another language; to
translate.