Most schools were designed not to transform society, but to reproduce it.
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Transform
//tɹænsˈfɔɹm//
Synonyms for "transform" (108 found)
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Related words (54)
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2 entriesRelated terms
15 entriesderived
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
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5 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
127 translations across 34 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- transformeer verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μεταμορφόω verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Arabic
2 entries- تَحَوَّلَ verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- مَسَخَ verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Armenian
1 entries- վերածել verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Bulgarian
4 entries- трансформация noun (operation that converts a function)
- превръщам verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
- превръщам verb (in mathematics: subject to a transformation)
- превръщам се verb (undergo a transformation)
Catalan
2 entries- transformada noun (operation that converts a function)
- transformar verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ھەڵگەڕان verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 變形 /变形 verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- 變換 /变换 verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Czech
1 entries- proměnit verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Danish
2 entries- omdanne verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- transformere verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Esperanto
4 entries- aliformi verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- aliformi verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
- aliformigi verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- aliformigi verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
Finnish
4 entries- muuntaa verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
- muuntaa verb (in mathematics: subject to a transformation)
- muuntaa verb (in electricity: subject to the action of a transformer)
- muuntautua verb (undergo a transformation)
French
4 entries- transformée noun (operation that converts a function)
- transformée noun (function so produced)
- transformer verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- transformer verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
Friulian
2 entries- stramudâ verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- transformâ verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Galician
2 entries- transformada noun (operation that converts a function)
- transformar verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
German
4 entries- transformieren verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- transformieren verb (in mathematics: subject to a transformation)
- transformieren verb (in electricity: subject to the action of a transformer)
- transformieren verb (in genetics: subject (a cell) to transformation)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍉𐌽 verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Greek
2 entries- μεταμορφώνω verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- μετασχηματίζω verb (in electricity: subject to the action of a transformer)
Ido
1 entries- transformar verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Italian
4 entries- trasformata noun (operation that converts a function)
- trasformata noun (function so produced)
- modificare verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- trasformare verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Japanese
4 entries- 変換 noun (operation that converts a function)
- 変換 noun (function so produced)
- 変化する verb (undergo a transformation)
- 変形する verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Korean
2 entries- 변형시키다 verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- 변형하다 verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Latin
4 entries- immuto verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- muto verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- muto verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
- muto verb (in mathematics: subject to a transformation)
Māori
4 entries- whakaahua verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- whakaahua verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
- whakaahuakē verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- whakaahuakē verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دونمك verb (undergo a transformation)
Persian
1 entries- ترادیسیدن verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Polish
4 entries- przeistaczać verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- przekształcać verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- przemieniać verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- przeobrażać verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Portuguese
4 entries- transformada noun (operation that converts a function)
- transformada noun (function so produced)
- transformar verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- transformar verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
Romanian
4 entries- transforma verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- transforma verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
- transforma verb (in mathematics: subject to a transformation)
- transforma verb (in electricity: subject to the action of a transformer)
Russian
4 entries- видоизмени́ть verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
- видоизменя́ть verb (change the nature, condition or function of)
- преврати́ть verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- превраща́ть verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Sicilian
1 entries- strafurmari verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Spanish
4 entries- transformada noun (operation that converts a function)
- transformada noun (function so produced)
- transformar verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- trasformar verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Swedish
2 entries- omvandla verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
- transformera verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Tagalog
1 entries- isaanyo verb (change greatly the appearance or form of)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Our minds transform experiences into symbols.
Source: tatoeba (249534)
"Oh, right, you're a werewolf, aren't you?" "I'm mixed blood, so I don't transform or anything."
Source: tatoeba (329328)
Jill of the Jungle could transform into a phoenix, a frog, or a fish. The fish and the phoenix could both fire unlimited projectiles.
Source: tatoeba (707494)
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