Definition of convert

• v. t. - To cause to turn; to turn.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
• v. t. - To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
• v. t. - To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
• v. t. - To turn into another language; to translate.
• v. i. - To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.
• n. - A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.
• n. - A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.