The difference between Convert and Transform
When used as nouns, convert means a person who has converted to a religion, whereas transform means the result of a transformation.
When used as verbs, convert means to transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product, whereas transform means to change greatly the appearance or form of.
check bellow for the other definitions of Convert and Transform
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Convert as a verb (transitive):
To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
Examples:
"A kettle converts water into steam."
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Convert as a verb (transitive):
To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
Examples:
"He converted his garden into a tennis court."
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Convert as a verb (transitive):
To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief .
Examples:
"They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed."
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Convert as a verb (transitive):
To exchange for something of equal value.
Examples:
"We converted our pounds into euros."
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Convert as a verb (transitive):
To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
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Convert as a verb (transitive):
To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
Examples:
"How do you convert feet into metres?"
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Convert as a verb (transitive, legal):
To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
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Convert as a verb (ambitransitive, rugby football):
To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
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Convert as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, soccer):
To score (especially a penalty kick).
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Convert as a verb (intransitive, ten-pin bowling):
To score a spare.
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Convert as a verb (intransitive):
To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief .
Examples:
"We’ve converted to Methodism."
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Convert as a verb (intransitive):
To become converted.
Examples:
"The chair converts into a bed."
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Convert as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To cause to turn; to turn.
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Convert as a verb (transitive, logic):
To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
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Convert as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To turn into another language; to translate.
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Convert as a verb (transitive, cricket):
To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
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Convert as a verb (intransitive, marketing):
To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
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Convert as a noun:
A person who has converted to a religion.
Examples:
"They were all converts to Islam."
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Convert as a noun:
A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
Examples:
"I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!"
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Convert as a noun (Canadian football):
The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
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Transform as a verb (transitive):
To change greatly the appearance or form of.
Examples:
"The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold."
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Transform as a verb (transitive):
To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
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Transform as a verb (transitive, mathematics):
To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
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Transform as a verb (transitive, electricity):
To subject to the action of a transformer.
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Transform as a verb (transitive, genetics):
To subject (a cell) to transformation.
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Transform as a verb (intransitive):
To undergo a transformation; to change in appearance or character.
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Transform as a noun (mathematics):
the result of a transformation