converting furnace

Convert \Con*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Converted}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Converting}.] [L. convertere, -versum; con- + vertere
   to turn: cf. F. convertir. See {Verse}.]
   1. To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.]
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            O, which way shall I first convert myself? --B.
                                                  Jonson.
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   2. 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.
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            If the whole atmosphere were converted into water.
                                                  --T. Burnet.
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            That still lessens
            The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. --Milton.
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   3. 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.
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            No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
                                                  --Prescott.
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   4. 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.
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            He which converteth the sinner from the error of his
            way shall save a soul from death.     --Lames v. 20.
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   5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or
      intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
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            When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and
            converted it, [it was] held no larceny. --Cooley.
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   6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert
      goods into money.
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   7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that
      what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of
      the second.
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   8. To turn into another language; to translate. [Obs.]
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            Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted.
                                                  --B. Jonson.
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   {Converted guns}, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or
      steel tubes. --Farrow.

   {Converting furnace} (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which
      wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

   Syn: To change; turn; transmute; appropriate.
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