Transmute
verb
To change something in form, nature, or substance into something else.
The base metals were believed to be transmuted into gold
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- transmute into
- transmute from
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verb
To change or alter in a profound or radical manner.
The experience transmuted his perspective about life
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- transmute perspective
- transmute attitude
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verb
In alchemy, to change a base metal into gold or silver.
The ancient alchemists sought a way to transmute lead into gold
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- transmute lead
- transmute iron
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verb
To change something in form, nature, or substance into something else.
The base metals were believed to be transmuted into gold
Often appears as...
- transmute into
- transmute from
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To change or alter in a profound or radical manner.
The experience transmuted his perspective about life
Often appears as...
- transmute perspective
- transmute attitude
Usage tips
Formal
verb
In alchemy, to change a base metal into gold or silver.
The ancient alchemists sought a way to transmute lead into gold
Often appears as...
- transmute lead
- transmute iron
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Abstract Concept
Used to express the idea of changing one thing into another in an abstract, non-literal sense.
The caterpillar will transmute into a beautiful butterfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Transformation
Can be used in scientific contexts to describe the change of substances or elements.
Physicists have managed to transmute one element into another.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Usage
Often utilized metaphorically to talk about personal growth or shifts in ideas.
His travels transmuted his narrow worldview into a cosmopolitan one.
Pro Tip 1/3Abstract Concept
Used to express the idea of changing one thing into another in an abstract, non-literal sense.
The caterpillar will transmute into a beautiful butterfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Transformation
Can be used in scientific contexts to describe the change of substances or elements.
Physicists have managed to transmute one element into another.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Usage
Often utilized metaphorically to talk about personal growth or shifts in ideas.
His travels transmuted his narrow worldview into a cosmopolitan one.
Pro Tip 1/3Abstract Concept
Used to express the idea of changing one thing into another in an abstract, non-literal sense.
The caterpillar will transmute into a beautiful butterfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Transformation
Can be used in scientific contexts to describe the change of substances or elements.
Physicists have managed to transmute one element into another.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Usage
Often utilized metaphorically to talk about personal growth or shifts in ideas.
His travels transmuted his narrow worldview into a cosmopolitan one.
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new lifeforms that were computationally grown, additively manufactured and biologically augmented. I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels.
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Mysteries of vernacular:...
Miniatura was transmuted into English in the 16th century as the word, miniature , and since that time, it has had the exact same meaning we use today.
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Design at the...
new lifeforms that were computationally grown, additively manufactured and biologically augmented. I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels.
Video examples
Mysteries of vernacular:...
Miniatura was transmuted into English in the 16th century as the word, miniature , and since that time, it has had the exact same meaning we use today.
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Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
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Christopher Hitchens
American Author
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
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Irving Stone
American Writer
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Neri Oxman
American Architect
I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.
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Barbara Deming
American Author
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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Mencius
Chinese Philosopher
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Conrad Black
British Businessman
I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
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Donald Johanson
American Scientist
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.
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Edith Hamilton
American Writer
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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William Shenstone
English Poet
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Quote examples
Christopher Hitchens
American Author
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
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Irving Stone
American Writer
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Neri Oxman
American Architect
I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.
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Barbara Deming
American Author
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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Mencius
Chinese Philosopher
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
Quote examples
Conrad Black
British Businessman
I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.
Quote examples
Donald Johanson
American Scientist
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.
Quote examples
Edith Hamilton
American Writer
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Quote examples
William Shenstone
English Poet
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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