单词 | converted |
释义 | convertedadj.ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [adjective] > solstice solstitial1559 tropical?1574 solstitian1614 converted1618 1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 434 Fifty days after heaven's converted heat..Then grows the navigable season fit. 2. That has turned or been brought over to a religious faith or profession, whether from a different religion or from irreligious life. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > opposite or opposed turneda1325 reversedc1390 contrary1413 opposeda1500 oppositea1513 inverted1563 counter1596 diametrical1613 contraposed1620 oppositive1622 averse1623 diagonial1624 contrarying1628 diametrala1631 conversive1636 Antipodian1640 converted1640 exadverse1647 Antarctic1651 Antipodean1651 antipodal1664 in reverse1694 contradictory1736 converse1794 antithesistic1801 contravening1802 diametric1802 reverse1828 polar1832 antipodist1844 antithetic1864 other-sided1879 antipodic1881 society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [adjective] > converted convert1622 proselyte1625 converted1640 convicted1822 society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > moral conversion > [adjective] > converted convert1622 converted1640 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie i. v. 21 Countenancing and incouraging the converted Governours of the Church. 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 74 One Converted Indian that revealed the Plot. 1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. iv. 108 Of all his works, Sir Godfrey was most proud of the converted Chinese at Windsor. 1851 Missionary I. 207 A brother and a sister..the former a converted, the latter a heathen, native. 1893 N.E.D. at Converted Mod. A converted prize-fighter. The preacher was a converted Jew. 3. Thesaurus » Categories » a. Changed into something else; see convert v. 12. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [adjective] > reduced to nearly required size (timber) converted1865 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. ii. xiv. f. 188v Which sum being added to the former conuerted longitude..maketh in all 1247. 1865 Dockyard Accts. (Blue Bk. 8. 465-1) The curvature and bevelling required in a large portion of the converted timber. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 895 Cemented or converted steel..is produced by the carbonisation of wrought iron. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 67 A converted watch is one in which an escapement of a different kind has been substituted for the original one. c. spec. Of a building (see conversion n. 12e, convert v. 12e). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective] wandedc1593 brick-built1596 rock-built1596 mud-walled1607 sedgy1624 sodden1639 nogged1688 frame1760 logged1784 stucco1786 weatherboarded1794 piled1795 thick-walled1820 clapboarded1835 board-built1837 pebble-dashed1839 puncheoned1843 timber-framed1843 betimbered1847 pile-built1851 massy1855 bamboo-walled1858 portable1860 half-timber1874 stone-faced1874 Red River frame1879 ashlared1881 granolithic1881 brick-end1883 converted1888 steel frame1898 board-and-bat1902 traviated1902 steel-framed1906 prefabricated1921 prefab1937 multiwall1940 pre-engineered1955 curtain-walled1959 pre-fabbed1959 timber-frame1967 system-built1968 flat-pack1982 1888 R. Kipling Phantom 'Rickshaw (1889) 32 It was my business to live in dâk-bungalows... I lived in ‘converted’ ones—old houses officiating as dâk-bungalows. 1924 P. MacDonald Rasp viii. 110 She perceived No. 14 to be a ‘converted’ house. A great black building that might once have housed a merchant prince, but was now the warren of retired grocers, oddities, solicitors, and divorcees. 1959 F. Donaldson Child of Twenties xi. 151 A very attractive small flat..a converted L-shaped London drawing-room. d. Rugby. (See convert v. 11f.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [adjective] > type of goal converted1907 1907 A. H. Baskerville Mod. Rugby Football i. 12 A converted try..equals 5 points. 1927 W. W. Wakefield & H. P. Marshall Rugger viii. 294 In New Zealand a desire is expressed for raising the value of the try to four points and making a converted goal six, while any other goal should equal three points. By thus raising the value of a try the value of kicking is lessened, for conversion represents a half addition as against our two-thirds. 4. Logic. See convert v. 4b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > conversion of a proposition > [adjective] converted1656 reduced1728 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. i. iv. 37 Changing..the Propositions into converted Propositions æquipollent to them. 1847 A. De Morgan Formal Logic iv. 71 Each universal proposition has converted contronominals for its affirmative forms. 1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica vi. 202 Either the converted proposition is a new judgment distinct from the exposita, or it is merely the same judgment expressed in different language. 1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic (1880) x. 82 In order that the converse or converted proposition shall be inferred from the convertend. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1594 |
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