convertとは

発音

Noun

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.vɜːt/
• (General American) enPR: kŏn'vûrt, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.vɝt/

Verb

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kənˈvɜːt/
• (General American) enPR: kənvûrt', IPA^(key): /kənˈvɝt/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)t

名詞

convert (複数形 converts)

1. A person who has converted to a religion.

   They were all converts to Islam.

   • 2004, Ted Jones, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, Tauris Parke Paperbacks (2007), →ISBN, chapter 3, 64:

     While still in this relationship, Greene, a convert to Roman Catholicism at 23, was asked to be godfather to Catherine Walston, a 30-year-old married woman, at her own conversion.

2. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.

   I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!

3. (カナダ用法 football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

動詞

convert (三人称単数 現在形 converts, 現在分詞 converting, 過去形および過去分詞形 converted)

1. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

   A kettle converts water into steam.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Burnet

     if the whole atmosphere were converted into water

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     That still lessens / The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.

   • 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:

     Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.

2. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.

   He converted his garden into a tennis court.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, […].

3. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).

   They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William H. Prescott

     No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.

4. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.

   We converted our pounds into euros.

5. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
6. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.

   How do you convert feet into metres?

7. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
8. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
   • 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/9386391.stm Wales 19-26 England]”, in BBC:

     Flood converted to leave Wales with a 23-9 deficit going into the final quarter.

9. (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
   • 2011, Jonathan Wilson, Brian Clough: The Biography, →ISBN:

     Hinton, inevitably, converted the penalty.

   • 2013, Mark Worrall, Kelvin Barker and David Johnstone, Making History, Not Reliving It: A Decade of Roman's Rule at Chelsea, →ISBN, page 225:

     However, the lead was doubled after the break, when Branislav Ivanovic converted from close range after Fernando Torres had flicked on.

   • 2016, Alex Crook and Alex Smith, Southampton Greatest Games: Saints' Fifty Finest Matches, →ISBN:

     This time Polish goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski was Saints' penalty shootout hero, saving three spot kicks before centre-back Wayne Thomas converted from 12 yards to seal a 6-5 win.

10. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
11. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).

    We’ve converted to Methodism.

12. (intransitive) To become converted.

    The chair converts into a bed.

13. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson

      O, which way shall I first convert myself?

14. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
15. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson

      which story […] Catullus more elegantly converted

16. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
    • 2006, BBC, Gillespie hails 'fairytale' knock:

      Gillespie was reminded he had promised to join team-mate Matthew Hayden in a nude lap of the ground if he converted his century into a double.

反意語

• deconvert

派生語

関連する語

• conversion