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Transform   /trænsfˈɔrm/  /trˈænsfɔrm/   Listen
verb
Transform  v. t.  (past & past part. transformed; pres. part. transforming)  
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."
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."
4.
(Math.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.



Transform  v. i.  To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. (R.) "His hair transforms to down."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Transform" Quotes from Famous Books



... supporter of Sebastiani, Jansoulet's opponent, appeared on the square, the man pointed his weapon at him: "If you go in, I'll blow out your brains!" Moreover, when we see police commissioners, justices of the peace, sealers of weights and measures daring to transform themselves into electoral agents, intimidating and seducing a people notorious for their subjection to all these tyrannical little local influences, have we not proof positive of unbridled license? Why, even the priests, consecrated ...
— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

... may be studied for suggestions. Sometimes the alteration is of the exterior only. The repainting in a proper color, or the simple creosote staining of a weather-beaten house, with the addition of a rustic porch or the breaking of a corner bedroom into a balcony, will sometimes so transform an old house that it looks as if it were a ...
— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... art, who, for a brief term of power, have entered into a league with Satan, worship him and attend his sabbaths, and have a familiar, in the shape of a cat, dog, toad, or mole, to obey their behests, transform themselves into various shapes—as a hound, horse, or hare,—raise storms of wind or hail, maim cattle, bewitch and slay human beings, and ride whither they will on broomsticks. But, holding the contrary opinion, you will not, I apprehend, aid Master ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... enriched the love at first sight, which had shaken the equilibrium of his positive existence; and yet he now viewed all these as subordinate to the one image of mild decorous matronage into which wedlock was to transform the child of genius, longing for angel wings ...
— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... hundred and fifty thousand dollars was found concealed beneath the innocent flour and meal. It was no wonder the pirate captain was so successful, when he could upon an instant's notice transform himself from a wolf of the ocean to a peaceful Quaker trader selling flour to the hungry towns and settlements among the scattered islands of the West Indies, and so carrying his bloody treasure safely ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle


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