In linguistics, conversion, also called zero derivation or null derivation, is a kind of word formation involving the creation of a word (of a new part...

use Conversion (logic), reversing the two parts of a categorical or implicational statement Conversion (word formation), the creation of a word from...

from Latin or French. Nouns or adjectives can become verbs (see Conversion (word formation)). Adjectives like "separate" and "direct" thus became verbs,...

speech Conversion (word formation): a transformation of a word of one word class into another word class Dysphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase...

process of word formation. In this process a word starts being used as another word (having some similar properties). In this process a word of some grammatical...

In etymology, back-formation is the process or result of creating a new word via inflection, typically by removing or substituting actual or supposed...

Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew: גִּיּוּר, romanized: giyur or Hebrew: גֵּרוּת, romanized: gerut) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion...

without any change to the word, such as in the conversion of the noun breakfast into the verb to breakfast, it's known as conversion, or zero derivation. Derivation...

Forced conversion is the adoption of a religion or irreligion under duress. Someone who has been forced to convert to a different religion or irreligion...

active conversion by free choice due to a change in beliefs, secondary conversion, deathbed conversion, conversion for convenience, marital conversion, and...

Light-Life and the Spanish Neocatechumenal Way, promote post-baptismal formation based on the OCIA. Similarly, the Knights of Columbus provides a free...

just the whys." The process whereby a word comes to be used as a different part of speech is called conversion or zero derivation. Linguists recognize...

figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. As a rhetorical device, an oxymoron...

R S T U V W X Y Z See also References 2–4–5 defense A type of nickel formation with two linemen (two defensive ends, DEs, or one DE and one defensive...

WPDOS, and conversion is not easy. The menu remains the WPWin menu, and the available Toolbars are WPWin toolbars.[citation needed] WordPerfect 9 and...

conversion, using a word with a different grammatical role, for example using a noun as a verb or a verb as a noun. Another productive word-formation...

of faith formation and a meaningful experience of adult baptism at Easter." The word catechumen comes from the passive form of the Greek word κατηχέω (katēcheō)...

proliferation of aerobic organisms and, indirectly, the formation of the ozone layer due to the subsequent conversion of atmospheric O2 into O3. The ozone layer blocks...

football) to attempt to score (in the NFL, 15-yard line on 1-point conversions). Conversion attempts are used to score 1 or 2 points as follows: The offense...

ɫaːh] ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction...

converted to Rabbinic Judaism in the 8th century, but the scope of the conversion to Judaism within the Khazar Khanate remains uncertain. Where the Khazars...

an integer as hexadecimal with the printf function family, the format conversion code %X or %x is used. In XML and XHTML, characters can be expressed as...

downloading a software tool, and supports over 1,200 different conversion types. Since its formation, the service has converted over 510 million files for users...

conventional rules of word formation (e.g., "handshoes" for gloves and "time measure" for clock); distinguished from a neologism, which is a new word whose derivation...

is modelled like machine translation: the task is sequence-to-sequence conversion from the sentence to a constituency parse, in the original paper using...

ever inflect, discussion of their morphology is generally limited to word formation. English prepositions are formed through both derivation and compounding...

The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔鬼 (Jyutping: mo1 gwai2; Standard Mandarin: 魔鬼; pinyin: móguǐ) meaning 'monster', 'evil spirit'...

causes the reactive conversion of the sub-chondral bone to an ivory-like surface at the site of the cartilage erosion. The word derives from Latin eburneus...

Auditory verbal agnosia (AVA), also known as pure word deafness, is the inability to comprehend speech. Individuals with this disorder lose the ability...

The erg is not an SI unit. Its name is derived from ergon (ἔργον), a Greek word meaning 'work' or 'task'. An erg is the amount of work done by a force of...