Word Type
Convert can be a noun or a verb.
convert used as a noun:
- A person who has converted his or her religion.
"They were all converts to Islam." - 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!"
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
convert used as a verb:
- To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
"A kettle converts water into steam." - To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
"He converted his garden into a tennis court." - To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, or belief.
"They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed." - To exchange for something of equal value.
"We converted our pounds into euros." - To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- 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?" - To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- To score a spare.
- To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief.
"We’ve converted to Methodism." - To become converted.
"The chair converts into a bed."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is convert?
- Noun usage: They were all converts to Islam.
- Noun usage: I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!
- Verb usage: A kettle converts water into steam.
- Verb usage: He converted his garden into a tennis court.
- Verb usage: They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
- Verb usage: We converted our pounds into euros.
- Verb usage: How do you convert feet into metres?
- Verb usage: We’ve converted to Methodism.
- Verb usage: The chair converts into a bed.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of convert are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of convert, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).