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Roget's Thesaurus

#144. Conversion

[Gradual change to something different.]

Nouns

conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution, sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization; transportation; development [Biol.], developing. [photography] [conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of currency; exchange rate; bureau de change. chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux. passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting etc. v.; phase; conjugation; convertibility. crucible, alembic, caldron, retort. convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.

Verbs

be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change. convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form etc. 240; remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.

Adjectives

converted into etc. v.; convertible, resolvable into; transitional; naturalized.

Adverbs

gradually, etc. (slowly) 275 in transitu etc. (transference) 270 [Lat.].


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