- to change from one form or use to another; transform: convert grain into flour
- to cause to change as from one religion, doctrine, or course to another
- to exchange for something equal in value
- Finance
- to exchange (preferred stock, bonds, etc.) for another kind or class of security, esp. common stock
- to exchange (a currency) for an equivalent amount of another currency or precious metal
- to make (the extra point or points of a conversion) after a touchdown or try
- Law
- to appropriate or use (another's property) by conversion (sense )
- to change (property) from real to personal, or the reverse
- Logic to change (a proposition) by conversion
Origin of convert
Middle English converten from Old French convertir from Classical Latin convertere from com-, together + vertere, to turn: see verse- to be converted
- Bowling to knock down all of the standing pins on the second bowl, scoring a spare
- to make a conversion