Word Meanings - TRANSFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value. (more info) 1. To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into

Additional info about word: TRANSFORM

To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRANSFORM)

• Renew
• Recreate
• restore
• refresh
• renovate
• rejuvenate
• furbish
• recommence
• repeat
• reiterate
• reissue
• regenerate
• reform
• transform
• Turn
• Round
• shape
• mold
• adapt
• spin
• reverse
• deflect
• alter
• convert
• metamorphose
• revolve
• rotate
• hinge
• depend
• deviate
• incline
• diverge
• decline
• change

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRANSFORM)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Order
• arrange
• place
• collocate
• range
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to TRANSFORM)

• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• METAMORPHOSE
  To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• RENOVATE
  To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.