TRANSFORM


Meaning of TRANSFORM in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

completely

It is also because nuclear weapons have not completely transformed the military and moral environment in which we live.

If things continued this way for any other biotic population, that population would be erased or completely transformed fairly quickly.

His discovery completely transformed the way we think about space and time.

These new therapies have completely transformed home health care as well.

Besides, when some one spoke to me, I was completely transformed .

■ NOUN

cell

Invitro ras and p53 mutants cooperate to transform primary rat cells into cells capable of lethal tumourigenesis.

Invitro, oncogenes cooperate to transform cells and render them tumorigenic.

Invitro certain combinations of oncogenes cooperate to transform primary rat cells .

Then, with luck, some of the reintroduced, transformed cells will differentiate to form germ cells in that embryo.

As well as transformation of established 3T3 cells , p53 will also cooperate with mutant ras genes to transform primary rat cells.

But they were able to add transformed cells to existing embryos.

city

Government will commission the best designers, artists and architects, for instance, to help communities transform run-down city centres.

And it transformed the city into a thriving inland port.

country

Cars transformed the country , be-coming in the process the most important product in the whole economy.

It's a historical commonplace that this extraordinary cohort of Hitler's unwanted transformed their adopted country .

economy

In ten years, the Thatcher governments transformed the political economy and the public culture.

Within a span of decades, technological advances, organizational innovations, and new ways of thinking transform economies .

face

He had an engaging smile, quite boyish, which transformed his otherwise serious face .

One variable will be the pace of technological change, which has already transformed the face of agriculture.

As he spoke I was very conscious of the smile which transformed his usually impassive face .

The Industrial Revolution transformed the face of the countryside and thrust workers together in the new urban environments, packed and smoky.

But these changes are slowly, resolutely transforming the face of our world.

The analysis spans a period when technology and communication techniques transformed the outward face of policing.

She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face.

image

It would transform the image of State education, and do the tattered Royal image no harm either.

Pete Wilson successfully transformed the image of the industrious immigrant into a military threat.

Computer programs can transform these images to plan views but the resolution can not match that achieved by conventional photographic films.

Fine snow fell and transformed the image of the wood.

VidiPC form Rombo Productions is a video frame grabbing package which transforms a video image into a digitised format.

The co-operative hopes to transform the area's image .

life

For Information Technology is going to transform all our lives - we have hardly seen anything yet.

By a second child you have already transformed your life .

That first call had been the start of a campaign of intimidation that had transformed Polly's life into a living hell.

There, they would later say, he learned how to cope with his learning difference, and effectively transformed his life .

A whole range of material and cultural innovations in the late nineteenth century had begun to transform urban life .

Their desire for knowledge, however, was so strong that it transformed their lives .

By investing in public transport, we start to transform commuters' lives and create a cleaner environment.

They also have deeply transforming life proposals.

power

At night, the glare of the power station lights transform the complex into something like a beached transatlantic liner.

Those guys only wish that spending millions of dollars on a series of unrelated thrills had the power to transform them.

In essence, the power structure at Mega transforms itself.

The outcome is a power which transforms the nature of the relationship between the police and the public.

situation

Gregory insists he did not get carried away with all the hype and is still confident he can transform the situation .

Further, as the present case shows, the introduction of a possible Community law defence may transform the situation .

society

The repeal of Section 28 won't transform society .

What should happen is that development should be seen as a way of transforming society rather than asset portfolios.

Marx believed that the class struggle which would transform capitalist society would involve none of these processes.

world

His conquests transformed the ancient world and ushered in the Hellenistic age of great monarchies.

Part one focuses on the hippie culture that spread out from the Haight to transform the world .

And there, beyond the books on the windowsill, her floods, transforming the world like the eye in love.

They take action in order to discover, or to serve, and in the process transform or improve the world .

By exploring and changing our inner world , we begin to transform our outer world.

He wants to surpass and astound them by transforming the world .

We do not want to transform the world once again into a place for religious fighting.

The war had transformed the world , and the nation had changed with it.

■ VERB

help

Government will commission the best designers, artists and architects, for instance, to help communities transform run-down city centres.

From the work, a few of the helpers and a few of those being helped emerge transformed .

It is understood the company will look for design and advertising agencies to help transform the brand into a fashionable label.

As he passed through the congregation, Jim picked out the faces of people who had helped Tom transform Holy Trinity.

We believe that the analysis of these four cornerstones can help women transform themselves into subjects of their own reality.

In those eight years they have helped transform Republican presidential politics by wrenching it to the conservative side.

This attitude has helped to transform science into a wonderland of the imagination.

We will work to help the churches transform their view of what communication is and should be. 2.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

In the last 20 years, Korea has been transformed into a major industrial nation.

Well, you've certainly transformed this place - it looks great!

When she smiled, her face was completely transformed.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf, but it transforms itself at the last moment.

Francois Michelin describes this secret process as the equivalent of float-glass making, which transformed the manufacture of sheet glass.

In a more limited sense, Piaget, like Hegel, is attempting to transform Kantian ontology into a dialectical movement.

Of course it can be well worthwhile simply to transform cultured tissue in this way.

The new system transformed the way managers thought about their money.

These bodies can not be considered truly incorrupt since the tissues are transformed into another substance.

Under the program, the government sold shares to citizens for a nominal fee to quickly transform state enterprises into private companies.

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