| 单词 | convert |
| 释义 | convert Word forms: converts, converting , converted pronunciation note: The verb is pronounced (kənvɜːʳt ). The noun is pronounced (kɒnvɜːʳt ). 1. verb B2 If one thing is converted or converts into another, it is changed into a different form. The signal will be converted into digital code. [be V-ed + into/to] ...naturally occurring substances which the body can convert into vitamins. [V n + into/to] ...a table that converts into an ironing board. [V + into/to] Synonyms: change, turn, transform, alter 2. verb B2 If someone converts a room or building, they alter it in order to use it for a different purpose. By converting the loft, they were able to have two extra bedrooms. [VERB noun] ...the entrepreneur who wants to convert County Hall into an hotel. [VERB noun + into] He is living in a converted barn. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: adapt, modify, remodel, reorganize 3. verb B2 If you convert a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel. Save money by converting your car to unleaded. [VERB noun + to] The programme to convert every gas burner in Britain took 10 years. [VERB noun] 4. verb If you convert a quantity from one system of measurement to another, you calculate what the quantity is in the second system. Converting metric measurements to U.S. equivalents is easy. [VERB noun preposition] 5. verb If someone converts you, they persuade you to change your religious or political beliefs. You can also say that someone converts to a different religion. If you try to convert him, you could find he just walks away. [VERB noun] He was a major influence in converting Godwin to political radicalism. [VERB noun + to] He converted to Catholicism in 1917. [VERB + to] 6. countable noun A convert is someone who has changed their religious or political beliefs. She, too, was a convert to Roman Catholicism. [+ to] I took to these new pursuits with the enthusiasm of a convert who has just found religion. Synonyms: neophyte [formal], disciple, proselyte, catechumen 7. verb If someone converts you to something, they make you very enthusiastic about it. He quickly converted me to the joys of cross-country skiing. [VERB noun + to] 8. countable noun If you describe someone as a convert to something, you mean that they have recently become very enthusiastic about it. ...recent converts to vegetarianism. [+ to] 9. to preach to the converted phrase If you say that someone is preaching to the converted, you mean that they are wasting their time because they are trying to persuade people to think or believe in things that they already think or believe in. Collocations: convert a loan A peerage could thus be offered as security against an undisclosed loan but not awarded until, at a later date, the donor agreed to convert the loan into a gift. Times, Sunday Times During the winter break of the season, the club decided to convert the loan into a permanent transfer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Insiders said that party officials had desperately tried to persuade the lenders to convert their loans into gifts. Times, Sunday Times This effectively converts the loan into a gift. Times,Sunday Times The donors are widely expected to convert the loans to gifts in the future. Times, Sunday Times Connections between ports of different types are made possible by inserting a primitive to convert the signal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, they may convert the signal into the release of a neurotransmitter, or into continuous graded potentials, either of which may stimulate subsequent neuron(s) into firing an action potential. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They can be recorded by an oscilloscope and camera, but more modern techniques convert the signal with an analog-to-digital converter and output to a computer to be saved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The brain converts the signals it receives from 22 electrodes in each ear back into sound. Times, Sunday Times Octave-down effects are typically produced by converting the signal to a square wave, and then using flip-flop circuits to divide the frequency by two. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The app allows you to convert currency into gold and back to pounds. Times, Sunday Times These bots can often handle many tasks, including reporting weather, zip-code information, sports scores, converting currency or other units, etc. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Users can transact with market makers to trade or convert currencies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Companies will often seek to exchange their securities to extend maturities, reduce debt outstanding or convert debt into equity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, companies can sometimes convert debt that they owe into equity in themselves. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If the structure involves converting debt into equity, current shareholders may oppose the dilution of ownership. Times, Sunday Times It would prefer to raise about 26 billion from a combination of a rights issue, converting debt into equity and disposals. Times, Sunday Times The bank has proposed raising about 26 billion using other means, including an 11 billion rights issue plus about 15 billion from converting debt into equity and through disposals. Times, Sunday Times Devices such as magnetic solenoids and loudspeakers that convert electricity into motion but do not generate usable mechanical power are respectively referred to as actuators and transducers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because they convert electricity into laser light with much higher efficiency, diode lasers also run cooler, which in turn allows them to be operated at much higher frequencies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A crankcase heater generally has the same electrical symbol as a resistor because it converts electricity directly into heat via electrical resistance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When converting electricity into mechanical power, brushless motors are more efficient than brushed motors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The tiles, made from recycled lorry tyres, convert energy from pupils' footsteps into sustainable energy using dynamos. Times, Sunday Times Tidal power uses turbines to convert energy from tidal movements into electricity. Times, Sunday Times Photoautotrophs such as vascular plants and algae convert energy from the sun into energy stored as carbon compounds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A variety of genera, which are not closely related to each other, convert energy from light through photosynthesis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Actuators are objects that convert energy into motion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And do it in the morning - your blood-sugar levels are low then, so the body converts fat stores into energy. The Sun The absence of carbohydrates leads the body into a state of ketosis, where it converts fats to ketones to generate energy. Times, Sunday Times The body converts fat stores into ketones only in desperate times - when you are starving and thus in need of the wits and energy required to secure sustenance. Times, Sunday Times The maker of clever kit to convert gas into jet fuel dipped 1½p to 180p. Times, Sunday Times The business, which has an enterprise value of about 500m, converts gases from landfill sites into energy. Times, Sunday Times The $19bn project, a square mile of pipes and reactors, converts gas from the world's largest reservoir into diesel, jet fuel and other products such as shampoo ingredients. Times, Sunday Times The king could grant nobility to individuals, convert land into noble fiefs or, elevate noble fiefs into titled estates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Converting land in the southeast from farmland to housing increases its value a hundred-fold. Times, Sunday Times These continued within the city environs until the next increment of development converted land use into suburbanization. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the fermentation process, yeast cells in the must continue to convert sugar into alcohol until the must reaches an alcohol level of 16%18%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bohemian waxwings have a large liver which helps to convert sugar to energy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It happens when the exerciser ceases to work aerobically (using oxygen) and starts to work anaerobically (converting sugar in the blood into energy due to insufficient supplies of oxygen). Times, Sunday Times During the fermentation process, enzymes and microbes like yeasts convert sugars in the pulp into acids and ethanol, changing the chemical composition, and therefore the taste, of the beans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As fermentation progresses the yeast convert sugars to carbon dioxide, ethanol, more yeast and flavour-producing compounds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today, solar cells use the photoelectric effect to convert sunlight into power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The owner, who lives next door, uses photovoltaic panels to convert sunlight into electricity, drives an electric car and grows his own produce. Times, Sunday Times Silicon solar cells can convert sunlight into electrical energy with 15% efficiency, and electrical energy can be converted into chemical energy without much loss. Times, Sunday Times The surveillance specialist and the supplier of kit that helps to convert sunlight into electricity tanked by 22.8 per cent to 329p and 15.4 per cent to 4¼p respectively. Times, Sunday Times The photovoltaic system it uses employs silicon solar cell technology to convert sunlight directly into electricity. Times, Sunday Times An energy technology start-up has raised $50 million to turbo-charge its plan to convert waste material from coalmines into low-cost fuels. Times, Sunday Times It uses a steam engine to convert waste heat energy from an internal combustion engine into supplemental power for the vehicle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Incinerators convert waste materials into heat, gas, steam and, ash. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Critics say that first-generation biofuels compete with food crops - and converting waste products into diesel could be a more sustainable alternative. Times, Sunday Times Some proposals include converting it into a waterway for barges, setting up small farms on its banks and introduce biogas plants to convert waste into energy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A dressage rider of international standard, he was a late convert to breeding thoroughbreds but did not live long enough to reap due reward. Times, Sunday Times It has been a very late convert to the internet, too. Times, Sunday Times Still, there are no more zealous converts than late converts. Times, Sunday Times The new convert will not be daunted. Times, Sunday Times I am a brand new convert to a way of refreshing tired feet that has the advantage of removing them from any shopping trip for approximately an hour. Times, Sunday Times Exit the new convert, ashen-faced and usually unwilling to hear any more, just in case. Times, Sunday Times A baptism immediately took place and the new convert was allowed to go free. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the first two years, we baptized over a hundred people a year, mostly new converts. Christianity Today While plants convert only about 1 per cent of sunlight into fuel, his latest iteration of an artificial leaf converts ten per cent. Times, Sunday Times In experiments the plants lost less water through their leaves as they absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light into nutrients. Times, Sunday Times Plants convert and store the energy of the photon into the chemical bonds of simple sugars during photosynthesis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I am a recent convert to primers, which are potions you put on after your moisturiser and are designed to keep your make-up in place. Times, Sunday Times She's a recent convert to yoga, which she credits for toning her up and calming her down. The Sun I'm only a recent convert but now it's like an extra organ. The Sun He was a recent convert, having joined the party only in 1965, and was still considered an outsider. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He informed us that he had been involved in an excommunication of a recent convert. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sometimes we feel the very force of our arguments will win converts. Christianity Today The musicians are on tour now: they're sure to win converts. Times, Sunday Times These are the sort of perks that should be included if the company hopes to win converts from premium manufacturers. Times, Sunday Times The theme played well with its own supporters but failed to win converts. Times, Sunday Times There are few signs that social media can win converts. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 转换, 改变信仰的人 Japanese: 変える, 転向者 |
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