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convert

[kən′vərt]
(computer science)
To transform the representation of data.

CONVERT

(language)
1. (Or "REC", "Regular Expression Converter") A string processing language that combined the pattern matching and transformation operations of COMIT with the recursive data structures of Lisp.

["Convert", A. Guzman et al, CACM 9(8):604-615, Aug 1966].

2. An early language to convert programs and data from one language to another.

["CONVERT Manual", OLI Systems Inc, Oct 1976].
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But after I had considered it a while, I asked him seriously if he was in earnest, and that he would venture, on the single consideration of an attempt to convert those poor people, to be locked up in an unplanted island for perhaps his life, and at last might not know whether he should be able to do them good or not?
So he was much better satisfied, and nothing could persuade him but he would stay and endeavour to convert them; but Providence gave another very happy turn to all this.
The clergyman smiled upon me when I reported what answer they gave, but said nothing a good while; but at last, shaking his head, "We that are Christ's servants," says he, "can go no further than to exhort and instruct: and when men comply, submit to the reproof, and promise what we ask, 'tis all we can do; we are bound to accept their good words; but believe me, sir," said he, "whatever you may have known of the life of that man you call Will Atkin's, I believe he is the only sincere convert among them: I will not despair of the rest; but that man is apparently struck with the sense of his past life, and I doubt not, when he comes to talk of religion to his wife, he will talk himself effectually into it: for attempting to teach others is sometimes the best way of teaching ourselves.
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At least part of this threat is from converts to Islam who might become radicalized to commit violence.
The role of converts in al-Qa'ida-related terrorism offenses in the United States
He has written a book with Lebanese journalist Camille Eid, Avvenire's Mideast correspondent, entitled "I Cristiani Venuti dall' Islam" (Christian Converts from Islam).
Challenges of Christian converts from Islam
To do the work, the skater's body converts chemical energy gained from food into mechanical energy, which moves the skater's leg muscles.
Speed skating: a high-powered machine lets racers rest their legs while they soar on skates
While most uranium producers refine and convert in one place, Cameco refines in Blind River and converts in Port Hope.
A refined expansion
A new solution converts agricultural waste such as cornstalks and wheat straw into ethanol.
Souped-up yeast
Elisheva Carlebach, Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany 1500-1750
Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany 1500-1750. (Reviews)
The Orthodox Jewish establishment that controls marriages, divorces and burials for Jews will likely continue to refuse services to such converts.
AREA JEWS GAIN STATUS ISRAEL RECOGNIZES ALL WHO CONVERT
The selected text converts immediately to a table; you may have to adjust the column width in the resulting table.
Technology Q&A
A failed Roth conversion results when a taxpayer converts a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA in a year in which adjusted gross income (AGI) exceeds $100,000.
Last opportunity to recharacterize 1998 Roth IRA conversions

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