| 单词 | transform |
| 释义 | transform (once / 215 pages) 1v 2v When you transform you change from one thing or state to another. Picture a transformer that changes from a robot to a car. Simple, right? Caterpillars transform into butterflies, a forest is transformed by a snowfall, and a city can be transformed by a new government or a changing economy. Transform means a big change in appearance or in essence. The Internet has transformed how we live our day-to-day lives, but you wouldn't say that moving a throw pillow has transformed your living room. WORD FAMILYtransform: transformable, transformation, transformed, transformer, transforming, transforms+/transformation: transformations/transformer: transformers USAGE EXAMPLES“But in doing so, they lose the bigger picture of transforming the body.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Over the past two decades, China transformed itself into an economic superpower through massive industrialization. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) “They used hand grenades and machine gun and transformed their celebration to mourning.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v change or alter in form, appearance, or nature This experience transformed her completely She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture Syn|Hypo|Hyper transmute, transubstantiate transubstantiate change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ sorcerise, sorcerizetransform or change by means of sorcery stalinise, stalinizetransform in accordance with Stalin's policies destalinise, destalinizecounteract the effects and policies of Stalinism process, work, work onshape, form, or improve a material hot-workroll, press, forge, or shape (metal) while hot cold work, coldworkshape (metal) without heat overworkuse too much make over, retread, reworkuse again in altered form rackwork on a rack toolwork with a tool tillwork land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v change in outward structure or looks He transformed into a monster Syn|Hypo|Hyper metamorphose, transmute aurify transform into gold become, turnundergo a change or development boil down, come down, reducebe the essential element choke, suffocatebecome stultified, suppressed, or stifled nucleateform into a nucleus add up, amount, comedevelop into change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v convert (one form of energy) to another transform energy to light Hyper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 4v change from one form or medium into another Syn|Hypo|Hyper translate metricise, metricize express in the metric system diagonalise, diagonalizetransform a matrix to a diagonal matrix alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 5v change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species Hyper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 6v subject to a mathematical transformation 2Hyper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation v increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage) Hyper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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