| 单词 | converted |
| 释义 | converted, ppl. a.|kənˈvɜːtɪd|
[f. convert v. + -ed1.]
†1. Turned, turned back; cf. conversion 3.
1618Chapman Hesiod ii. 434 Fifty days after heaven's converted heat..Then grows the navigable season fit.
2. That has turned or been brought over to a religious faith or profession, whether from a different religion or from irreligious life.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. i. v. 21 Countenancing and incouraging the converted Governours of the Church. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative ii. 74 One Converted Indian that revealed the Plot. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 198 Of all his works, Sir Godfrey was most proud of the converted Chinese at Windsor. 1851Missionary I. 207 A brother and a sister..the former a converted, the latter a heathen, native. Mod. A converted prize-fighter. The preacher was a converted Jew.
3. a. Changed into something else; see convert v. 12. †b. Reduced: see 14.
1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. ii. xiv. (ed. 7) 397 The summe of the two converted longitudes added together is 1247. 1865Dockyard Accts. (Blue Bk. 8. 465-1) The curvature and bevelling required in a large portion of the converted timber. 1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 895 Cemented or converted steel..is produced by the carbonisation of wrought iron. 1884[see convert v. 12 d].
c. spec. Of a building (see conversion 12 e, convert v. 12 e).
1888Kipling Phantom Rickshaw (1889) 32 It was my business to live in dâk-bungalows... I lived in ‘converted’ ones—old houses officiating as dâk-bungalows. 1924P. Macdonald Rasp viii. 110 She perceived No. 14 to be a ‘converted’ house. A great black building that might once have housed a merchant prince, but was now the warren of retired grocers, oddities, solicitors, and divorcees. 1959F. Donaldson Child of Twenties xi. 151 A very attractive small flat..a converted L-shaped London drawing-room.
d. Rugby Football. (See convert v. 11 f.)
1907A. H. Baskerville Mod. Rugby Football i. 12 A converted try..equals 5 points. 1927[see conversion 11 d].
4. Logic. See convert v. 4 b.
1656tr. Hobbes's Elem. Philos. i. iv. 37 Changing..the Propositions, into converted Propositions aequipollent to them. 1847A. De Morgan Formal Logic iv. 71 Each universal proposition has converted contronominals for its affirmative forms. 1851[see exposita]. 1870[see convertend]. |
英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容11：
相关热词搜索：converted英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语
字词 比重测定法 释义 【医】 pyknometry 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖......
字词 比例附加 释义 【经】 add-on 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部......
字词 比率 释义 percentage; proportion; rate; ratio\n【医】 proportion; ratio\n【经】 rater......
单词 conuzor 释义 † conusor, conuzor Law. Obs. or arch.Also 6 -our.[a. AF. conusour, coni......
字词 比特修改 释义 【计】 D-bit modification 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基......
字词 比特流 释义 【计】 bit stream 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖了全......