Meaning of TRANSFORM
| Pronunciation: | | [n]'transform, [v]trans'form, trans'fowrm
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- [v] change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"
- [v] physics: increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
- [v] biology: change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
- [v] physics: convert (one form of energy) to another; "transform energy to light"
- [v] change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"
- [v] change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
- [v] subject to a mathematical transformation
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| | Synonyms: | | metamorphose, translate, transmute, transubstantiate |
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| | See Also: | | alter, aurify, become, change, destalinise, destalinize, diagonalise, diagonalize, metricise, metricize, prepare, process, sorcerise, sorcerize, stalinise, stalinize, turn, work, work on | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Trans*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transformed}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Transforming}.] [L. transformare,
transformatum; trans across, over + formare to from: cf. F.
transformer. See {Form}, v. t.]
1. To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance;
to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately
transformed into a butterfly.
Love may transform me to an oyster. --Shak.
2. To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the
alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
3. To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the
like; to convert.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
--Rom. xii. 2.
4. (Math.) To change, as an algebraic expression or
geometrical figure, into another from without altering its
value.
\Trans*form"\, v. i.
To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. [R.]
His hair transforms to down. --Addison.
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