transform
Verbs
- (v) subject to a mathematical transformation
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(v) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
- This experience transformed her completely
- She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture
- transubstantiate one element into another
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(v) change in outward structure or looks
- He transformed into a monster
- The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle
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(v) change from one form or medium into another
- Braque translated collage into oil
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(v) convert (one form of energy) to another
- transform energy to light
- (v) change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
- (v) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)