conversionn.
/kənˈvəːʃn/, /kənˈvəːʒn/, U.S. /kənˈvərʒən/, /kənˈvərʃən/ I. Turning in position, direction, destination.† 1. † 2. † b. figurative. The action of turning or directing (one's mind, attention, actions, etc.) to some object. Obsolete.† 3. † b. In versions of the Old Testament, rendering Latin conversio. Obsolete.† 5. Rhetoric. Used by 16th and 17th century writers as the equivalent of antistrophe n. 1, and sometimes of apostrophe n.1 1. Obsolete.
a. The action of turning round or revolving; revolution, rotation. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun]
swayc1374
turning1390
overwhelming?a1439
circumvolution1447
winding1530
conversion1541
rotationa1550
revolution1566
gyring?1578
revolve1598
circulation1605
gyration1615
evolution1654
sweep1679
gyrating1837
revolving1867
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxii. f. 41 Conuersions of sterres motions and reuolutions of planettes.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ix. 144 Were the World eternall, the Conuersions or turnings about therof should be eternal too.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xx. 227 That Straight line..which touches a Spiral at the end of its first conversion.
1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 143 The conversion of Jupiter about his own axis.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §68. 139 In the conversion of the Body of the Sun, this Virtue thereof..is also turned about.
b. centre of conversion: see centre n.1 and adj. Phrases 1.
a. The action of turning to a particular direction; turning. Obsolete.
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > changing to face different direction or turning
turning1303
turnc1390
circumversion1578
conversion1594
head1607
versation1656
wheela1660
slewc1860
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xx. f. 154v This Greeke word Tropos, which is..a conuersion or turning.
1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 50 Divers Conversions of those sides towards our Eyes.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 111 The conversion of the needle to the North. View more context for this quotation
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God xvi. 104 A Conversion to that Magnetick Posture.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > directing or turning the mind, etc., to some object
conversion1581
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 513 b With such an unremoveable conversion of mynde to Godward.
1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience vi. 40 Daily sinne..is an aversion from God, and his daily Repentance a conversion to God.
1712 Spectator No. 524. ⁋5 An habitual inclination and conversion of his sight towards it.
a. The action of turning back or returning; spec. the turning back of the sun in its apparent course on reaching the tropic; the solstice. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > solstice
sunsteadOE
solsticea1325
stinting of the suna1387
solsticionc1400
standing of the sun?1440
solstitium?1521
stay of the sun1538
solstacionc1540
sunstay1545
conversion1553
staying of the sun1555
solstitial1561
solsticy1570
trope1599
solstead1601
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Mv The sommer conuersion of the sunne.
1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 162 If at the sun's conversion thou shalt sow The sacred earth.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 3 The tropical conversion of the Sun.
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a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. xxxiii. 7 And y schal conuerte the conuersioun of Juda [1382 Turne the turnyng of Juda].
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Jer. xxxiii. 26 I wil bring backe their conversion, and wil have mercie on them.
4. Transposition, inversion (of the terms of a statement; cf. converse adj.2 1); spec. in Logic, the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition according to certain rules to form a new proposition by immediate inference.Conversion in which the quantity of the proposition is unchanged is called simple conversion (e.g. ‘No A is B’; ‘No B is A’); when there is a change of quantity, conversion per accidens (e.g. ‘All A is B’; ‘Some B is A’). Cf. contraposition n. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > conversion of a proposition > [noun]
conversion1551
reciprocation1588
reconversion1849
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Fiij Conuersion, is the chaungyng or alteryng of wordes in a Proposicion, when ye former part (wherof any thyng is rehersed) and the hynder parte (which is rehersed of the former) are chaunged, the one, into the others place.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 15v In Geometrie is oftentimes vsed conuersion of propositions.
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. iv. §14. 69 As the law of nature is all of it Divine, so the Law of Christ by conversion..is all of it also..the doctrine of Nature.
1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic iv. §1. 68.
1887 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic 80 A Conversion may be defined as an immediate inference in which from one proposition we infer another having the same terms as the original proposition, but their order reversed.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > ode > antistrophe
conversion1552
counter-turna1637
turnagain1871
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Conuersion, or speakynge one to another.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 107 b Conversion is an ofte repeatyng of the last worde, and is contrarie to that whiche went before.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 166 The Greekes call this figure Antistrophe, the Latines, conuersio, I following the originall call him the counterturne.]
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Conversion..a Rhetorical Figure, the same as Apostrophe.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Conversion,..is understood of Arguments which are return'd, retorted, and shewn on opposite Sides, by changing the Subject into the Attribute, and the Attribute into the subject.
6. Mathematics. The substitution of the difference of antecedent and consequent for the consequent in each of the ratios forming a proportion: see quots. ? Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > transformation > [noun] > correspondence > replacing quantities
conversion1570
composition1660
substitution1694
inversion1843
reciprocation1852
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 134 Conuersion of proportion (which of the elders is commonly called euerse proportion).
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 130 So that here is now four Proportionals, and by any three given, you may strike out the fourth, by Conversion, Transposition, and Division of them.
1695 W. Alingham Geom. Epitomiz'd 19 If A:B::C:D then by Conversion 'twill be as A:A—B::C: C—D.
1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Conversion, or Convertendo, is when there are four proportionals, and it is inferred, that the first is to its excess above the 2d, as the third is to its excess above the 4th.
7. Law. The action of (illegally) converting or applying something to one's own use. Usually in trover and conversion.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > illegal use of another's property
misconverting1601
conversion1615
superintromission1670
vicious intromission1678
vicious intromission1773
1615 Coke in E. Bulstrode Rep. (1657) ii. 311–2 There may be a trover and no conversion, if he keep and lay up the goods, by him found, for the Owner.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 195 Fraudulent conversion of Treasure trove.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit vii. 13 He talk'd of nothing but..Writs of Error, Actions of Trover and Conversion.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 151–2 This action, of trover and conversion, was in it's original an action..against such person as had found another's goods, and refused to deliver them on demand, but converted them to his own use.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1267 A person is guilty of a conversion who takes the property of one person by assignment from another, who has not any authority to dispose of it.
II. Change in character, nature, form, or function.† 10. A change in the constitution of a state; a revolution. Obsolete. rare.† 13. Military. An evolution by which files were converted into ranks, or smaller ranks into larger; a change of front to a flank. Obsolete.
8. † c. spec. In the medieval church: Change from the secular to the ‘religious’ life; entry into monastic life. Obsolete. (See Du Cange, conversio.)
a. The bringing of any one over to a specified religious faith, profession, or party, esp. to one regarded as true, from what is regarded as falsehood or error. (Without qualification, usually = conversion to Christianity.)
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun]
conversationa1382
conversiona1400
convincementa1617
converting1633
discipling1653
convertism1716
conversionism1885
Passover1889
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 19477 (heading) Of the Conuersioun of saint Paule.
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iii. x. 56 Paynyms and heretikes that ben dede withouten conuersion.
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aiij The conuersion of the gentyles.
1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ i. 2 The Conversion of the British Nation, to the Christian Faith.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 238 At the conversion of the late Count Ernest Metternich to the Catholic religion.
1890 W. Stubbs Primary Charge 31 She is the Church of the National History, of the Conversion, the Constitution, the Reformation.
b. The festival of the Conversion of St. Paul, observed on January 25.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Feast of St. Paul's Conversion (25 January) > [noun]
conversion1382
St. Paul's tide1701
1382–8 J. Wyclif N.T., Table of Lessons 691 (Propre Sanctorum) Jan. Seynt Vincent, martir, Conuersioun of Seynt Poul.
1501 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) II. 184 On Sent Powlles evyn the Conversioun.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > monastic profession > [noun]
profession?c1225
conversionc1340
professing1502
clothing1628
vesture1639
novitiation1792
monachization1813
c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 5 When I had taken my syngulere purpos and lefte þe seculere habyte..it fell one a nyghte..in the begynnynge of my conuersyone, etc.
1482 Monk of Evesham 19 There was a certen yong man, turnyd..fro thys worldys vanyte to the lyfe of a Monke, the whiche abowte the begynnyng of his conuersion fyll yn to a grete and a greuys sekenes.
d. transferred. The action of converting or fact of being converted, to some opinion, belief, party, etc.
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the world > time > change > [noun] > of position or attitude
turning1340
metabasis1550
shift1831
reorientation1888
conversion1893
relance1960
1893 N.E.D. at Conversion Mod. Conversion to Free Trade principles, to Darwinism, etc.
9. Theology. The turning of sinners to God; a spiritual change from sinfulness, ungodliness, or worldliness to love of God and pursuit of holiness.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > moral conversion > [noun]
conversiona1340
conversationa1382
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvii. 53 In conuersyon of synful men.
c1430 tr. Thomas à Kempis Imitation of Christ i. xiii Somme men haue most greuous temptacions in þe begynnyng of her conuersion, somme in þe ende.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. F2v See how God wrought for my conuersion.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 724 And to them preachd Conversion and Repentance. View more context for this quotation
1740 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 279 The very beginning of your conversion to God.
1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. Introd. 15 Labours in the conversion of souls.
1834 J. Angell James Anxious Inquirer vi The first error..is to mistake knowledge, impression, and partial reformation, for genuine conversion.
1893 N.E.D. at Conversion Mod. Few conversions occurred under his ministry.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun]
uparisingc1325
mutationa1513
revolution1555
innovation1601
novation1603
conversion1614
smash1890
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. iii. §12. 488 In such cases, especially where God intends a great conuersion of Empire.
a1618 W. Raleigh Maxims of State (1651) 49 The ruin of many Tyrants, and conversion of their States.
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a. The action of turning, or process of being turned, into or to something else; change of form or properties, alteration.
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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
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Euensong f. vii Not by conuersion of the Godhead into flesh.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ix. f. 84 The conuersion or turnynge of ayer into water.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §82 Artificiall Conuersion of Water into Ice, is the worke of a few Houres.
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments ii. 44 The Conversion of the Aliment into Fat, is not properly Nutrition.
1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xiv. 354 The conversion of sedimentary Silurian Strata into crystalline rocks.
b. Change of condition or function. (Const. into.)
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > change into
reduction1605
deduction1650
resolution1659
conversion1661
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 36 If cut through from Sea to Sea..This Isthmus would lose it's name in an Island; And the conversion conduce much to its security.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 128 A conversion of a large tract of sea into land.
1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings Pref. 14 The conversion of the thorny wilderness into the fertile meadow.
c. spec. Forestry. (See quot. 1895.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > change of sylviculture system
conversion1895
coniferization1956
1895 W. Schlich Man. Forestry III. iv. 338 Change from one sylvicultural system into another, called a conversion.
1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. xi. 171 Many coppices suitable for conversion are variable in density and constitution.
d. Rugby. The action of scoring a goal by converting a try; also, a goal scored in this manner.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > scoring
touch1845
run-in1846
rouge1856
touchdown1856
touch-in-goal1869
try1870
minor1883
minor point1884
pot1888
major point1896
penalty try1922
conversion1927
pushover1940
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.
1959 Times 21 Sept. 3/4 Gavins, the Leicester full-back, played a big part..kicking four penalty goals and two conversions.
e. Grammar. The use of one part of speech as another.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > [noun] > change of part of speech
conversion1928
functional shift1930
1928 [see conversion-noun n. at Compounds 2].
1950 S. Potter Our Lang. v. 57 This kind of word-play, the use of noun as verb and verb as noun.., known technically as conversion.
1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) viii. 265 The deliberate transfer of a word from one part of speech to another, technically known as conversion.
12. Hence, many technical uses in Manufacturing.
a. Steel-making. The process of changing iron into steel. Cf. convert v. 12a, converter n. 3b.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > conversion of metals > of iron into steel
conversion1837
steelifying1843
steeling1860
steelification1875
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 225 The steel employed for files requires to be very hard, and in consequence undergoes a longer process in the conversion. It is said to be doubly converted.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 899 The carbonisation or conversion is effected, as it were, in layers.
b. Shipbuilding. (a) Reduction of timber from the rough state into pieces of nearly the required shape and size. (b) Change of a vessel from one class to another.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > modification of vessel
conversion1850
jumboizing1956
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > specific procedures
furring1622
ceiling1627
spaling1805
fortifying1820
conversion1850
boot-topping1867
fairing1867
horning1879
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 111 Conversion, the art of lining and moulding timber, plank, etc. with the least possible waste.
1859 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem II. xcii. 72 Expenditure in the construction and conversion of Her Majesty's ships.
1865 Dockyard Accts. (Blue Bk. 8. 465–1) The cost of rough timber is proportionately less than that of sided timber, and compensates for the greater loss to which it is subject in conversion.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Conversion, reducing a vessel by a deck, thereby converting a line-of-battle ship into a frigate, or a crank three-decker into a good two-decker.
c. Firearms. The process of changing a muzzle-loader into a breech-loader, or the like.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 612/2 The cost of conversion is about 15s. for each rifle.
d. Watchmaking. (See convert v. 12d.)
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1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 67 The operation of converting [a watch] is spoken of as making a conversion.
e. Building. The structural adaptation of a building for a new purpose.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > conversion to new purpose or remodelling
remodel1833
conversion1921
1921 Building News 1 Apr. 169/2 (heading) The conversion of buildings to meet modern requirements.
1921 Building News 1 Apr. 169/2 Assuming..a block of, say, three or four houses..what are their possibilities with a view to conversion into flats?
1934 E. Waugh Handful of Dust ii. 62 The conversion of stables and garages was an important part of Mrs. Beaver's business.
1960 News Chron. 29 Apr. 8/5 A house conversion which left no room for a dining-room.
1960 Guardian 5 May 10/6 A pleasant minor mansion of the kind described by estate agents as being ‘suitable for conversion’.
f. Nuclear Technology. The process in a nuclear reactor by which fertile material is transformed into fissile material (see quot. 1963).
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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear reactor > [noun] > producing fissile material > process in
conversion1955
1955 S. Visner in Reactor Handbk. Engin. (U.S.A.E.C.) iv. 511 The highest enrichment available is desired for conversion of thorium-232 to uranium-233.
1958 A. M. Weinberg & E. P. Wigner Physical Theory Neutron Chain Reactors i. 11 The principal purpose of conversion is..the production of pure fissionable material.
1963 B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors xiii. 162 This depletion of the fuel by burn-up of fissionable atoms is offset to some extent by the production in the fuel elements by neutron absorption and other processes of atoms of new materials which are themselves fissionable; the best known example of this is the production of plutonium 239 from uranium 238. This process is known as conversion.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > other evolutions
inversion1627
conversion1635
fronting1796
platoon1797
platoon exercise1797
half-face1833
right (or left) shoulders (in)!1833
three-quarters face1833
about-face1835
ployment1861
1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline xxxi. 85 Inversion doth alwaies produce, file, or files; and Conversion, ranke, or rankes.
1650 R. Elton Compl. Body Art Mil. (1668) 32 My subject in this Chapter shall be of Ranks filing, and Files filing, and Ranks ranking, and Files ranking, which are by some called Inversion and Conversion.
1678 A. Lovell tr. La Fontaine Mil. Duties Cavalry 9 Wheeling by conversion is performed by the front of the squadron, so that it is the rank and not the file which makes the motion.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Conversion, in War, is when the Soldiers are order'd to present their Arms to the Enemy, who attack 'em in Flank, whereas they were before suppos'd to be in Front: The Evolution necessary thereto is called Conversion, or Quarter-wheeling.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 263 By a movement in the nature of that which tacticians describe as ‘conversion’ a column of men facing eastward..was suddenly formed..into an order of battle fronting southward.
III. Change by substitution of an equivalent in purport or value.† 14. Translation into another language (or into a different literary form); usually concrete, a translation, version. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun]
remeninga1382
translatinga1382
translationa1382
interpretation1382
interpretingc1384
reducing?a1425
traductiona1533
conversion1586
reddition1609
renderinga1653
rendition1653
transposition1653
transfusion1700
gloss1756
reduction1826
transc1877
machine-aided translation1966
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > instance of
drawingc1300
translationa1382
translate?1518
traductiona1533
version1582
conversion1586
metaphrase1594
rendering1637
traduct1647
upset1828
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. F.iv Abraham Flemming in hys conuersion of the Eglogues, promised to translate and publishe [the Georgics].
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads To Rdr. 117 And see that my conversion much abates The license they take.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 7 This Epigram..I have taken a little pleasant pains to make such a conversion of it as, etc. View more context for this quotation
15. Mathematics. Change of a number or quantity into another denomination; reduction. †conversion of equations: reduction of fractional equations to integral by multiplication (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > denomination > change into another
reduction1543
conversion1557
1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Zi Any of them maie be diuided by conuersion into a fraction.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Conversion of Equations (in Algebra).
1893 N.E.D. at Conversion Mod. The conversion of vulgar fractions into decimals, and vice versâ.
16.
a. Substitution of or exchange for something else; esp. of one kind of property for another. spec. The change of an issue of public securities, of bonds, debentures, stocks, shares, etc., into another of different character, or with an altered (generally reduced) rate of interest. Also attributive, as in conversion scheme, conversion operation, etc.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > change of one kind of property to another
conversion1607
converting1633
specification1651
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 35 Neyther theyr infranchisements, nor the conversion of works into rents doe so farre free them, but that they still owe services.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 228 The price at which the payment in kind was..exchanged for a certain sum of money, is in Scotland called the conversion price. View more context for this quotation
1826 T. Tooke State of Currency 69 The conversion of the four per cents into three and a half per cents was facilitated.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Nov. 12/1 A Five per Cent. Portuguese Conversion Loan for over a million sterling.
b. spec. in Law. The operation of changing the nature of property:
(a) from real to personal or vice versâ.‘Actual conversion is the act of converting land or other property into money by selling it, or of converting money into land by buying land with it..Constructive conversion is a fictitious conversion, which is assumed in certain cases to have taken place in order to carry out the intention of the parties’ (Sweet Law Dict. 1882).
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > change of one kind of property to another > change to personal or movable
conversion1827
chattelization1854
mobilization1879
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 60 Money considered as land, and vice versâ. What amounts to such a conversion.
1849 G. Spence Equit. Jurisd. II. 235 The conversion will operate only so far as the will disposes of the land into which it is to be converted.
1890 Partnership Act §22 (marg. note) Conversion into personal estate of land held as partnership property.
1893 N.E.D. at Conversion Mod. The will contains usual trusts for sale and conversion.
(b) as between partners, from partnership to separate property or vice versâ. Cf. convert v. 15.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > change of one kind of property to another > change as between partners
conversion1819
1819 Sir T. Plumer in C. T. Swanston Rep. II. 584 Where there is a conversion of joint property by a valid act, it is a fallacy to consider it still joint.
1888 N. Lindley Partnership (ed. 5) 335 A conversion of joint into separate property, or vice versâ, most frequently takes place when a firm and one of its partners carry on distinct trades.
c. Psychiatry. The symbolic manifestation in physical symptoms of a psychic conflict. (See also branch IV below.)
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > manifestation in physical symptoms
conversion1909
somatization1925
1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria ii. 23 Miss Lucy R. merged into that moment of hysterical conversion, which must have been under the determinations of that trauma.
1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria iii. 72 This neuralgia became the mark of a definite psychic excitement through the usual road of conversion.
1913 E. Jones Papers on Psycho-anal. 18 The energy finds an outlet in some somatic manifestation, a process Freud terms ‘conversion’.
1948 C. Berg Clin. Psychol. iii. 142 The following case..introduces us to the method of production of conversion.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In senses 8, 9.)
conversion-scripture n.
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1678 Young Man's Calling 109 He takes up his bible, and often reads the father's conversion-scripture, praying the Lord that it may prove his also.
conversion-shop n.
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1827 Edinb. Rev. 46 389 [They] convert their halls into conventicles and conversion-shops.
b. (In sense 12f.)
conversion efficiency n. (also sense 11.)
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1937 M. G. Crosby in Proc. IRE 25 476 A convenient term for this reduction factor of the filter is ‘conversion efficiency’.
1956 S. Glasstone Princ. Nucl. Reactor Engin. i. 42 If such a reactor were to regenerate the same amount of plutonium-239 as it loses by fission, i.e. if the conversion efficiency were 100 per cent.
conversion ratio n.
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1955 S. Visner in Reactor Handbk. Engin. (U.S.A.E.C.) iv. 514 The conversion ratio and breeding gain.
conversion reactor n.
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1956 S. Glasstone Princ. Nucl. Reactor Engin. i. 43 Nuclei of fissionable material..are consumed in a conversion reactor.
c. (In sense 16c.)
conversion hysteria n.
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1912 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria (ed. 2) xii. 210 The analytical technique has to be subjected to certain modifications..with the therapy of conversion-hysteria.
1926 J. I. Suttie tr. S. Ferenczi Further Contrib. Psycho-anal. vi. 89 Freud's psycho-analytical researches showed the symptoms of conversion hysteria to be representations of unconscious phantasies in bodily terms.
1935 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 214 Conversion hysteria, in which ‘the symptoms are a solution, however maladaptive, of the conflict’.
1956 R. M. Dorcus Hypnosis vii. 2 One large area in which hypnosis may serve a useful purpose is in detecting cases of conversion hysteria.
1965 N. Hobhouse in M. R. Kaufman & M. Heiman Evol. Psychosomatic Concepts 242 Those conversion hysterias which we see rather little of now, but which we saw much of in the War, were quite often monosymptomatic.
conversion hysteric n.
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1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 152 He [sc. the Doctor]..scoured the conversion hysteric's uterus.
1935 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 214 The conversion hysteric is often said to be of lower intelligence than the neurasthenic.
conversion symptom n.
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1926 J. I. Suttie tr. S. Ferenczi Further Contrib. Psycho-anal. vi. 102 The original theory of conversion considered the hysterical conversion symptom to be due to the abreaction of strangulated affects.
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 593/2 The repressed emotions could find conscious, but disturbing, outlets through..converting psychic energy into physical ‘conversion’ symptoms.
C2.
conversion factor n. (a) an arithmetical multiplier for converting a quantity expressed in one set of units into an equivalent quantity expressed in another; (b) Economics that part of the commercial value of a product attributable to the manufacturing processes involved and not to the raw material used.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > value attributable to manufacturing
conversion factor1918
the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > multiplier or multiplicand
multipliantc1450
multiplicator1543
multiplier1543
multiplicand1594
factor1658
multiplied1660
coefficient1708
geniture1718
multiplicative1727
factor1779
weight1825
conversion factor1918
scale factor1948
co-factor-
1918 W. E. Dommett Dict. Aircraft 16 Wing loading W/A = Cl. p/g V2. The value of p/g V2 (English Units) is known as the Conversion Factor.
1947 Times Surv. Brit. Sci. Instr. Industry Oct. 2/3 The minimum of raw material is involved in the production of a scientific instrument... In short, scientific instruments have one of the highest conversion factors.
1952 Economist 6 Sept. 575 In value the annual output of the industry is perhaps..£35 million a year; since the cost of materials is probably not more than 30–35 per cent of this, its ‘conversion factor’ is high.
1962 B.S.I. News June 28/2 B.S. 350 listed conversion factors in no fewer than four different metric systems.
conversion gain n. (see quot. 1940).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > processes > [noun] > increase in signal
amplification1915
magnification1934
conversion gain1935
1935 F. E. Terman Measurements in Radio Engin. ix. 218 The conversion gain is..the ratio of the two test voltages required, provided the degree of modulation is kept constant. Similarly the detector efficiency with plate detection is the ratio of the actual conversion gain to the gain..obtained by considering the detector tube to be an intermediate frequency amplifier tube.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 196/2 Conversion gain (Radio), the effective amplification of a conversion detector, measured as the ratio of the output voltage of intermediate frequency to the input voltage of signal frequency.
1960 Electronic Engin. 32 413 A unit to express resistor current noise which is called conversion gain.
conversion-noun n. a noun formed from an adjective.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > other specific types of noun
increaser1612
regulara1637
energizer1751
agent noun1782
nomen actionis1820
segolate1831
class noun1849
patrial1854
nomen agentis1859
metaplast1864
agent word1879
post-genitive1922
conversion-noun1928
noun adjective1930
head noun1933
relatum1933
actant1967
class name1994
1928 C. Bergener Contrib. Study Conversion of Adjs. into Nouns 2 It seems to me more logical to say that the adjective is converted and to call the result a conversion-noun than to use the term converted noun in the latter sense.
Derivatives
conˈversional adj. of or relating to conversion (senses 8, 9).Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [adjective]
controversious1548
argumentable1588
argumental1595
warlikea1603
controversary1610
polemic1614
polemical1615
eristical1624
controversal1634
eristic1637
controversial1638
argumentative1647
agonisticala1652
agonistic1656
disputatious1660
controvertistical1707
gladiatorial1813
conversional1861
voiceful1879
challengeful1903
1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture ii. vii. 363 This rough sea of conversional tossings.
conˈversionary adj. Apparently an isolated use.
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1827 J. Jebb Life & Lett. lxxxvi. 672 Wholly unconnected with societies, or with conversionary movements.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > one who writes about
conversioner1655
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 3 The Conversioner..mainly stickleth for the Apostle Peter to have first preached the Gospel here.
conˈversionist n. one who advocates or devotes himself to the religious conversion of others.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > one who performs
converter1576
convertist1711
conversionist1887
1887 H. Adler in Papers Anglo-Jewish Hist. Exhibit. 278 The aged R. Aaron Hart, with whom Mr. Goldney, the zealous conversionist, held several disputations.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 June 3 The class from whom the professional conversionist draws his candidates for salvation.
conˈversionism n. Apparently an isolated use.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun]
conversationa1382
conversiona1400
convincementa1617
converting1633
discipling1653
convertism1716
conversionism1885
Passover1889
1885 W. A. Raleigh Let. 15 Dec. (1926) I. 48 The worst Christianity is to be found outside professed Christian countries—blatant conversionism and crass ignorance united.
Draft additions June 2007
conversion van n. North American a customized van in which the area behind the driver has been converted into a living space or for some other specialized use; a camper van.
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1971 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 25 Nov. 13 (advt.) Mini-motorhome & conversion van on display in our showroom.
1998 Chicago Tribune 10 May iv. 3/2 The first Arlington Heights bookmobile was a $5,000 conversion van.
2005 T. K. Beal Roadside Relig. 16 Tonie..rented out several older-model motor homes and conversion vans.
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