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6 N‑COUNT A convert is someone who has changed their religious or political beliefs. □ [+ to ] She, too, was a convert to Roman Catholicism. □  I took to these new pursuits with the enthusiasm of a convert who has just found religion.

7 VERB If someone converts you to something, they make you very enthusiastic about it. □ [V n + to ] He quickly converted me to the joys of cross-country skiing. [Also V n]

8 N‑COUNT If you describe someone as a convert to something, you mean that they have recently become very enthusiastic about it. □ [+ to ] …recent converts to vegetarianism.

9to preach to the converted → see preach SYNONYMS convert VERB 1

turn into:A prince turns into a frog in this cartoon fairytale.

transform:Your body transforms food into energy.

adapt:Shelves were built to adapt the library for use as an office.

modify:The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy.

alter:They have never altered their programmes by a single day.

con|vert|er /kənvɜː ^r tə ^r / (converters )

1 N‑COUNT A converter is a device that changes something into a different form.

2 → see also catalytic converter

con|vert|ible /kənvɜː ^r t I b ^ə l/ (convertibles )

1 N‑COUNT A convertible is a car with a soft roof that can be folded down or removed. □  Her own car is a convertible Golf.

2 ADJ In finance, convertible investments or money can be easily exchanged for other forms of investments or money. [BUSINESS ] □  …the introduction of a convertible currency. ●  con|vert|ibil|ity /kənvɜː ^r t I b I l I ti/ N‑UNCOUNT □ [+ of ] …the convertibility of the rouble. □  …rapid export growth based on currency convertibility.

con|vex /kɒ nveks/ ADJ Convex is used to describe something that curves outwards in the middle. □  …the large convex mirror above the fireplace.

con|vey /kənve I / (conveys , conveying , conveyed )

1 VERB To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone. □ [V n] In every one of her pictures she conveys a sense of immediacy. □ [V n] He also conveyed his views and the views of the bureaucracy.

2 VERB To convey someone or something to a place means to carry or transport them there. [FORMAL ] □ [V n] The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.

con|vey|ance /kənve I əns/ (conveyances )

1 N‑COUNT A conveyance is a vehicle. [LITERARY ] □  Mahoney had never seen such a conveyance before.

2 N‑UNCOUNT The conveyance of something is the process of carrying or transporting it from one place to another. [FORMAL ] □ [+ of ] …the conveyance of bicycles on Regional Railways trains.

con|vey|anc|ing /kənve I əns I ŋ/ N‑UNCOUNT Conveyancing is the process of transferring the legal ownership of property. [mainly BRIT , LEGAL ]

con|vey|or belt /kənve I ə ^r belt/ (conveyor belts )

1 N‑COUNT A conveyor belt or a conveyor is a continuously-moving strip of rubber or metal which is used in factories for moving objects along so that they can be dealt with as quickly as possible. □  The damp bricks went along a conveyor belt into another shed to dry.

2 N‑COUNT If you describe a situation as a conveyor belt , you dislike it because it produces things or people which are all the same or always deals with things or people in the same way. [DISAPPROVAL ]