Translate vs. Convert — What's the Difference?

To render in another language

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

To express in different, often simpler words

To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another; adapt to a new or different purpose

To change from one form, function, or state to another; convert or transform

To persuade or induce to adopt a particular religion, faith, or belief

To express in another medium

To exchange for something of equal value

To transfer from one place or condition to another

To express (a quantity) in alternative units

To forward or retransmit (a telegraphic message).

(Logic) To transform (a proposition) by conversion.

(Ecclesiastical) To transfer (a bishop) to another see.

(Law) To appropriate (another's property) without right to one's own use.

To convey to heaven without death.

To complete (a conversion, penalty shot, or free throw) successfully.

(Physics) To subject (a body) to translation.

To score (a spare) in bowling.

(Biology) To subject (messenger RNA) to translation.

To undergo a conversion

To make a translation.

To be converted

To work as a translator.

(Football) To make a conversion.

To admit of translation

(Sports) To shoot and score a goal, especially immediately after receiving a pass or gaining control of a rebound.

To be changed or transformed in effect. Often used with into or to

One who has been converted, especially from one religion or belief to another.

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

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

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

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

(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.

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

(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.

(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.

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

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

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

(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.

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

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

Senses relating to a change of position.

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

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

To score (especially a penalty kick).

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

To score a spare.

(analysis) In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set.

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

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

(intransitive) To become converted.

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

To cause to turn; to turn.

To remove to heaven without a natural death.

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

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

To turn into another language; to translate.

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.

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.

To change into another form; to transform.

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

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

To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.

To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance.

A person who has converted to a religion.

To make a translation; to be engaged in translation.

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

Restate (words) from one language into another language;

(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

Change from one form or medium into another;

To cause to turn; to turn.

Make sense of a language;

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.

Bring to a certain spiritual state

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.

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

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.

Be equivalent in effect;

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

Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way;

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

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

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

Express, as in simple and less technical langauge;

To turn into another language; to translate.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Change the nature, purpose, or function of something;

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

Change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief;

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

Cause to adopt a new or different faith;

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

Complete successfully;

Score (a spare)

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

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one

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