transformingn.
The action of transform v.; transformation.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun]
overchangingc1384
transmutation1398
permutationa1425
transforming1435
resolutiona1450
translating1503
resolvinga1513
conversion1549
transposing1550
conversationa1570
transmuting1579
projection?1583
transmigration1618
version1626
transversion1656
transmogrification1661
converting1711
metamorphosing1730
metastasis1818
turn-over1825
interconversion1865
transnaturation1873
transmorphism1888
segue1945
the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > action or fact of changing shape
metamorphosis1447
transformation?a1475
metamorphosy1532
transfiguration1548
transforming1580
metamorphose1608
metamorphosing1608
metamorphizing1609
transformance1611
transmogrification1661
transfigurement1865
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 40 Qwhat is lufe bott transfourmynge of desire In to þe þinge lufyd?
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Transfiguration, a transforming.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vi. lv. 78 With quick & strange transforming.
1883 J. T. Burgess in Athenæum 3 Nov. 569/1 The transforming of the south transept into the vestry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
transformingadj.
a. That transforms.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > transforming
transmuting1579
metamorphosing1607
transmutative1611
leavening1628
transmutatorya1631
transforminga1653
conversive1656
convertive1816
metamorphotic1826
transmutive1836
transfiguring1846
transmogrifying1851
permutating1852
transfigurating1871
transfigurative1899
a1653 H. Binning Serm. (1845) 10 Love is an uniting and transforming thing.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. lxiii. 51 Our..Saviour's face..Bent on us with transforming power.
1842 I. Williams Baptistery I. i. 42 I gaz'd Upon the footsteps of transforming Time.
1907 W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Jan. 72 The transforming hand of man was applied to it.
b. transforming principle n. Biology a substance that genetically transforms bacterial cells (transform v. 1f).
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > other genetic structures
messenger1905
transforming principle1944
muton1957
prokaryon1957
recon1957
vector1958
operon1960
R1961
codon1962
replicon1963
regulon1964
promoter1965
promotor1966
transconjugant1974
cassette1977
1944 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 79 155 If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as possessing biological specificity the chemical nature of which is as yet undetermined.
1965 A. R. Peacocke & R. B. Drysdale Molecular Basis Heredity iii. 13 The transforming principle has two properties characteristic of genes, namely, determination of a specific inheritable property and self-reproduction.
Derivatives
transˈformingly adv.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adverb]
transitively1577
proteanly1678
transformingly1866
1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice i. ii. 68 He..could not so powerfully and transformingly impress the fact.
1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 178 That energy Which moves transformingly in root and branch.
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