I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
change/convert currency (= change money from one currency to another )
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There’s usually a charge for converting currencies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bank
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People rushed to convert their bank deposits into cash.
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K., and the numbers is expected to dwindle as many are taken over, merge or convert to banks .
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Building societies were converting into banks , insurance companies were changing their status, the air was thick with windfalls.
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The combined group will convert to a listed bank in early 1997.
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About 90 % of Bradford &038; Bingley's members voted in favour of the building society converting to a bank .
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Analysts have said they expect three of the four largest building societies to convert to banks in the coming few years.
barn
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I visited one farm that obtained permission to convert a barn for use as a place to pack boxes.
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Have you converted a barn into a comfortable home?
building
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Their college is negotiating to convert the prison building to provide accomodation for students.
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Happily plans are now well in hand to convert the buildings into around 70 luxury dwellings.
cash
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So more people wanted to convert deposits into cash , more banks failed, and so on.
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Marketable securities are short-term, high-quality debt instruments that can be easily converted into cash .
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The liquidity of an asset is the ease with which it can be converted into cash without loss.
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Marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventories are continually being converted into cash in the normal course of business.
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Although not actually cash , these assets can be converted into cash on demand with no financial penalty.
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In other words, they can easily be converted into cash but may involve some loss.
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It is likely to be converted into cash and is part of the operating cycle therefore a current asset.
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It would cost around four million pounds to convert every cash dispenser in the country to being voice activated.
catholicism
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During his convalescence he was nursed by Martha Freeman, who converted him to Catholicism .
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Her replacement, Sister Nirmala, was born a Hindu but converted to Catholicism and has been with the order since 1958.
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Maude had converted to Catholicism in order to marry her husband.
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Sigismund converted to catholicism before becoming king in 516.
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Released in the general amnesty of June 1917, she converted to Catholicism .
energy
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The action of the lungs works like a bellows which enriches the internal fire where food is converted into energy .
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This occurs as the result of toxins that form as mechanical energy is converted to electrical energy.
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In effect, they convert the energy of the electromagnetic radiation into chemical energy.
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Because the truth would emerge as soon as you converted the energy into a different form.
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This is about the energy that would be released if a hydrogen atom could be totally converted into energy.
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He showed converting energy from the sun into useful forms was scientifically possible.
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All these provide indirect means of converting solar energy to forms of energy which are useful to us.
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The sensing element of a scintillation counter is a fluor, a substance capable of converting radiation energy to light energy.
file
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There are two ways of making a RealAudio file: converting an existing file , and capturing from an audio device.
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To convert our WordStar file , press 4.
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First up, is Pizazz + Convert, a handy utility for converting one graphics file type to another.
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The Convert program converts files created with another word-processing program to WordPerfect format or vice versa.
house
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One of these used to be the Free Church but has now been converted into a house .
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Attractively converted town house close to Portobello market, with spacious, fully equipped rooms.
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Mrs Scott, pictured above, first took the plunge in 1993 when she converted a house into two flats.
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It was converted to a private house , with only the leat still visible in the landscaped gardens.
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Three of the chapels were demolished, the remaining one is converted to a house .
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Barn owls need barns or similar buildings for breeding, and more and more of them are being converted into country houses .
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Sandford Mill, now in the heart of a greatly expanded Cheltenham, and converted to a house .
image
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The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style.
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This converts the image into electronic signals which are passed to the recorder section containing the cassette housing and tape transport mechanisms.
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Scanners convert the image they are given into a pattern of dots, typically at a resolution of 300dpi.
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These digital reflectance values are converted to a viewable image by the computer system shown in Figure 5.10.
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This transform is essentially an equation which will convert from image to map coordinates and vice-versa.
penalty
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John McCann converted a penalty for the losers' reply.
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Matthew Hunt converted a penalty after five minutes; then Fowler netted his first after a move started by Nikki Harman.
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Kennetts beat Wickham Dynamoes 2-1, with Kevin West converting two penalties .
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Street converted the penalty for the third, before Malshanger pulled one back towards the end.
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Taylor converted a penalty for Shortheath's goal, but there was no stopping the Hollywater side.
plan
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The plan is to convert a twenty-eight-building factory compound into the world's largest museum of post-1960 international art.
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The present owner has plans to convert it to a travelling theatre.
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The plan is to convert it into the ultimate upmarket hotel and hautecuisine restaurant.
signal
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Here the pulses are converted into signals that provide the directional information, just as with a conventional switch type joys tick.
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Time Division Multiple Access converts conversations into digital signals and assigns each one specific time slots.
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The digital images held in the memory banks are converted to television signals which are displayed on the monitor.
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It enables your loudspeakers to produce music by converting the digital signal to an analog waveform.
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To cross this gap, an action potential must be converted from an electrical signal to a chemical signal.
stock
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These are debt securities that can be converted into stock .
try
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He also converted Ian Jones's try off the touchline.
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Laing converted this try , and two penalty tries awarded as the Instonians scrum got on top.
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Earlier, Craggs had kicked a penalty and then hit the post when attempting to convert Steve Towns' try .
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With White converting all the tries , Alton ran out comfortable winners after a terrible start.
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Didier Camberabero kicked a penalty and converted a characteristic try by Serge Blanco.
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Ally Donaldson kicked two penalty goals for Currie and converted a late try by Dean Mack.
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Gregory converted the try and as he had also kicked a penalty goal early in the match Nottingham were on their way.
use
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Treasure Island Naval Station is set to convert to civilian use when the Navy pulls out in 1997.
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I visited one farm that obtained permission to convert a barn for use as a place to pack boxes.
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The house felt as if it had been converted to institutional use , someplace impersonal and chill.
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To convert a design, use graph paper and mark out blocks of six rows.
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This marshy wetland would have easily been converted for their use .
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It can also be converted for use as an omnidirectional microphone.
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Next is Upton Mill, which has been converted for residential use .
■ VERB
preach
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About 5000 people attended a meeting at Mahon where Mr Alexander Moore preached and hundreds were converted .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A Swiss company has found a way to convert animal waste into fuel.
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Alpha is a religious programme that aims to change your life, not just convert you.
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Concerns about cruel farming methods converted her to vegetarianism.
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I didn't use to like Indian food, but Cathy's converted me.
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My grandmother converted to Hinduism while living in India.
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This computer system converts typed words into speech.
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We've converted the basement to give the children more room to play.
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Within five years, he had converted thousands of Calvinists back to Catholicism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1983, the district converted all its junior high schools to schools of choice, doing away with assignment by zone.
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The berries are then warmed over slowly burning peat fires until they sprout, a development that converts their starches into sugars.
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The Kings, who were 0 for 3 on the power play against Chicago, converted two of four man advantages.
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The previously existing subduction zone is converted into a suture zone marking where the two continents are welded together.
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The problem began when I converted my 4 x 2 to 4 x 4.
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There have been other setbacks-like 160,247 hectares of farmland converted to industrial, residential or commercial uses.
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You use these processes to convert your physical state from sleepy and unkempt to bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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Because although economic considerations are normally behind the switch, many new converts rapidly discover they prefer the diesel driving experience.
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Others emphasize the radical, sometimes even personally risky, break that a new convert must make.
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The next day, Emperor Maximian had the new converts beheaded.
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The newest converts back east, he decreed, must come to Utah pushing handcarts.
recent
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The young magistrate had embraced orthodoxy with the fervour of a recent convert .
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He is white or, if he is black, a recent convert to the missionary Church and a martyr.
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Mr Kinnock is a relatively recent convert to revisionism.
■ VERB
become
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Brownson followed him the same year, to become the leading lay convert of his day.
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He admitted to becoming a convert .
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In time, I confess, even I became a convert .
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Ditto a few years later, when the coach became an ardent convert to the principles of the triple option.
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In fact, they became fervent converts to the idea that centralization was exactly the wrong way to go.
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He became a convert after pulling an extraordinary stunt with his Swissmade Kuhn-Rikon pressure cooker.
make
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Assuming the same thing happens in the gut, then a vitamin deficiency might make the yeast convert to the hyphal form.
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I doubt if they made a single convert on the health issue during the campaign.
win
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As a contest it was neither designed to set the pulses racing nor win converts .
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It won converts to socialism by making it respectable, exciting and desirable.
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The superiority of the Macintosh system would win converts .
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The pickled onion on the plate is not likely to win many converts , however.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
preach to the converted/choir
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As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this, so he avoided prosecution.
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But they will still usually be only the party faithful, so he will find himself preaching to the converted.
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He is preaching to the choir of religious-right Protestants and conservative Catholics whose votes should already be locked up.
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Not only was he preaching to the choir, he was talking to tax-cutting evangelists.
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To some extent this means preaching to the converted.
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You're preaching to the converted in us, but you've got to get at everyone else.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a convert to Buddhism
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also patron of converts and divorce.
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Because although economic considerations are normally behind the switch, many new converts rapidly discover they prefer the diesel driving experience.
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Brownson followed him the same year, to become the leading lay convert of his day.
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It was called the Moderation Society, and George Mottram was an early convert .
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Now, she is a convert .
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The young magistrate had embraced orthodoxy with the fervour of a recent convert .
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Yet some people of conscience felt they must not write off these possible converts.