Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Conversely (adv.) In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.

(1) - Conversion (n.) A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.
(2) - Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
(3) - Conversion (n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
(4) - Conversion (n.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
(5) - Conversion (n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
(6) - Conversion (n.) An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.
(7) - Conversion (n.) The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.
(8) - Conversion (n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

(1) - Convert (n.) 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.
(2) - Convert (n.) 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.
(3) - Convert (v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.
(4) - Convert (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.
(5) - Convert (v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(6) - Convert (v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
(7) - Convert (v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
(8) - Convert (v. t.) 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.
(9) - Convert (v. t.) 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.
(10) - Convert (v. t.) 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.
(11) - Convert (v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.

(1) - Converter (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
(2) - Converter (n.) One who converts; one who makes converts.

(1) - Convertible (a.) Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
(2) - Convertible (a.) Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.