to convert

Examples

• All

• You need to convert dollars to euros when traveling to Europe.

• Some of the high school faculty had expressed a need to convert old videotapes into DVD format.

  Academic text (2015)

• How many of these would you like to convert for deposit?

  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

• So like I go to a website and I convert dollars to Bitcoin.

  Lex Fridman

• The board does vote to convert APE into common stock.

• And what's it going to cost to convert this to what we need?

• Use an OCR program to convert it to data that the computer can use.

  Firewall (2006)

• To convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, this is what you do.

  White Noise (2022)

• As mentioned above, one fisherman has converted an abandoned laundromat into a processing center.

  Academic text (2013)

• Much of the original forest in the Nyangores River subbasin has been converted to agricultural lands.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

C

to change

vsto convert

550 1.0

To give something and get something else of the same kind

is used mainly for replacing items across types like money or measurement

E

to exchange

vsto convert

274 1.8

To give something and get something in return

is narrower focusing on replacing units or currencies rather than trading

I

to interchange

vsto convert

3 4.1

To exchange things so each takes the other's place

is more about changing between related forms than mutual swapping

Antonyms

H

to hold

840 1.4

To remain true or valid in a situation

R

to retain

236 3.4

To keep having something such as a job or possession

Surface Forms

Etymology