(~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If one thing is ~ed or ~s into another, it is changed into a different form.
The signal will be ~ed into digital code.
...naturally occurring substances which the body can ~ into vitamins.
...a table that ~s into an ironing board.
VERB: be V-ed into/to n, V n into/to n, V into/to n
2.
If someone ~s a room or building, they alter it in order to use it for a different purpose.
By ~ing the loft, they were able to have two extra bedrooms.
...the entrepreneur who wants to ~ County Hall into an hotel...
He is living in a ~ed barn.
VERB: V n, V n into n, V-ed
3.
If you ~ a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel.
Save money by ~ing your car to unleaded...
The programme to ~ every gas burner in Britain took 10 years.
VERB: V n to/into n, V n
4.
If you ~ a quantity from one system of measurement to another, you calculate what the quantity is in the second system.
Converting metric measurements to U.S. equivalents is easy.
VERB: V n prep, also V n
5.
If someone ~s you, they persuade you to change your religious or political beliefs. You can also say that someone ~s to a different religion.
If you try to ~ him, you could find he just walks away...
He was a major influence in ~ing Godwin to political radicalism...
He ~ed to Catholicism in 1917.
VERB: V n, V n to n, V to n
6.
A ~ is someone who has changed their religious or political beliefs.
She, too, was a ~ to Roman Catholicism.
...a Muslim ~ now known as Yusuf Islam.
N-COUNT: oft N to n
7.
If someone ~s you to something, they make you very enthusiastic about it.
He quickly ~ed me to the joys of cross-country skiing.
VERB: V n to n, also V n
8.
If you describe someone as a ~ to something, you mean that they have recently become very enthusiastic about it.
...recent ~s to vegetarianism.
N-COUNT: usu N to n
9.
to preach to the ~ed: see preach