Translate vs. Convert

Translateverb

Senses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.

Convertverb

(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

‘A kettle converts water into steam.’;

Translateverb

(transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.

‘Hans translated my novel into Welsh.’;

Convertverb

(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.

‘He converted his garden into a tennis court.’;

Translateverb

(intransitive) To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.

‘Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.’; ‘That idiom doesn’t really translate.’; ‘‘Dog’ translates as ‘chien’ in French.’;

Convertverb

(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief see also sense 11.

‘They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.’;

Translateverb

(transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.

Convertverb

(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.

‘We converted our pounds into euros.’;

Translateverb

(transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.

‘The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.’;

Convertverb

(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.

Translateverb

(intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.

‘Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.’; ‘His sales experience translated well into his new job as a fund-raiser.’;

Convertverb

(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.

‘How do you convert feet into metres?’;

Translateverb

To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.

Convertverb

To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.

Translateverb

Senses relating to a change of position.

Convertverb

To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

Translateverb

To move (something) from one place or position to another; to transfer.

Convertverb

To score (especially a penalty kick).

Translateverb

To t=place in a trance, to cause to lose recollection or sense.

‘William was translated by the blow to the head he received, being unable to speak for the next few minutes.’;

Convertverb

To score a spare.

Translatenoun

A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

Convertverb

(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief see also sense 3.

‘We’ve converted to Methodism.’;

Translateverb

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

‘In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome.’;

Convertverb

(intransitive) To become converted.

‘The chair converts into a bed.’;

Translateverb

To change to another condition, position, place, or office; to transfer; hence, to remove as by death.

Convertverb

To cause to turn; to turn.

Translateverb

To remove to heaven without a natural death.

‘By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim.’;

Convertverb

To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

Translateverb

To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another.

Convertverb

To turn into another language; to translate.

Translateverb

To render into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words.

‘Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.’;

Convertverb

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.

Translateverb

To change into another form; to transform.

‘Happy is your grace,That can translatethe stubbornness of fortuneInto so quiet and so sweet a style.’;

Convertverb

To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.

Translateverb

To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease.

Convertnoun

A person who has converted to a religion.

‘They were all converts to Islam.’;

Translateverb

To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.

Convertnoun

A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.

‘I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!’;

Translateverb

To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

Convertnoun

(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

Translateverb

restate (words) from one language into another language;

‘I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S.’; ‘Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?’; ‘She rendered the French poem into English’; ‘He translates for the U.N.’;

Convertverb

To cause to turn; to turn.

‘O, which way shall I first convert myself?’;

Translateverb

change from one form or medium into another;

‘Braque translated collage into oil’;

Convertverb

To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.

‘If the whole atmosphere were converted into water.’; ‘That still lessensThe sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.’;

Translateverb

make sense of a language;

‘She understands French’; ‘Can you read Greek?’;

Convertverb

To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.

‘No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.’;

Translateverb

bring to a certain spiritual state

Convertverb

To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.

‘He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death.’;

Translateverb

change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation

Convertverb

To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

‘When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny.’;

Translateverb

be equivalent in effect;

‘the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power’;

Convertverb

To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

Translateverb

be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;

‘poetry often does not translate’; ‘Tolstoy's novels translate well into English’;

Convertverb

To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

Translateverb

physics: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body

Convertverb

To turn into another language; to translate.

‘Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted.’;

Translateverb

express, as in simple and less technical langauge;

‘Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?’; ‘Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?’;

Convertverb

To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

‘If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [the Neboites] would have converted.’; ‘A red dust which converth into worms.’; ‘The public hopeAnd eye to thee converting.’;

Translateverb

genetics: determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA

Convertnoun

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

‘The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images.’;

Convertnoun

A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

Convertnoun

a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief

Convertverb

change the nature, purpose, or function of something;

‘convert lead into gold’; ‘convert hotels into jails’; ‘convert slaves to laborers’;

Convertverb

change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy;

‘We converted from 220 to 110 Volt’;

Convertverb

change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief;

‘She converted to Buddhism’;

Convertverb

exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;

‘Could you convert my dollars into pounds?’; ‘He changed his name’; ‘convert centimeters into inches’; ‘convert holdings into shares’;

Convertverb

cause to adopt a new or different faith;

‘The missionaries converted the Indian population’;

Convertverb

score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the endzone;

‘Smith converted and his team won’;

Convertverb

complete successfully;

‘score a penalty shot or free throw’;

Convertverb

score (a spare)

Convertverb

make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something;

‘He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product’;

Convertverb

exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Convertverb

change in nature, purpose, or function; especially undergo a chemical change;

‘The substance converts to an acid’;