Definition of transmute in English:

transmute

verb trɑːnsˈmjuːttransˈmjuːttranzˈmjuːttrɑːnzˈmjuːt

1Change in form, nature, or substance.
（使）变形；（使）变质；（使）变化
with object the raw material of his experience was transmuted into stories
他经历中的原始素材被编成了故事。
no object the discovery that elements can transmute by radioactivity
关于辐射能使元素发生变化的发现。
Example sentencesExamples
- Past experiences leave corresponding traces in mental space, suggesting how the mind retains but transmutes its sensory sources.
- That is how we solve the problem, by channeling or transmuting our energy, desiring things that are more refined.
- The city was engulfed by shock transmuted into compassion, grief and mourning.
- There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages.
- The sniffles I have been nursing since July have transmuted into pure flu, as lead transmutes into gold.
- That system transmutes disaster into mass death.
- And the American dream that wealth transmutes success into happiness always ends in bitter disappointment.
- Such a society will see reality as something to be improved upon, perfected, transmuted into images.
- Indeed, history itself is often not taught, being dumped instead into the soft-study mishmash called social studies or transmuted into half-baked courses in civics.
- Like so many other beauty products, styling treatments have come a long, long way: 20 years ago there were products that, when dry, transmuted into white flakes of dandruff.
- This sense of connectedness, it has been suggested, is transmuted beyond the individualistic to the universal in spiritual individuals, manifested in a compassionate concern for all humankind.
- Wall Street is transmuting electrons into big money.
- Much of the labour of our minds, conscious and unconscious, consists in transmuting Sentiments into Ideas.
- The ‘new’ had transmuted into the old almost overnight.
- The 1970s was a period when the Powellism of the 1960s came to suffuse the social fabric, and was gradually consolidated and transmuted into the Thatcherism of the 1980s.
- Though despair at his material sometimes makes him bellow, he gives a bravura performance that transmutes pointlessness into poignancy.
- What was unassuming and harmless suddenly becomes ironic, transmuted into that elusive thing we call ‘art.’
- It continues to run on the goggle-box and now has transmuted into a stage show.
- He could transmute wispy ideas into detailed plans and turn revolutionary dreams into enduring realities.
- We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion.
Synonyms
alter, make different, become different, undergo a change, make alterations to, adjust, make adjustments to, adapt, turn, amend, improve, modify, convert, revise, recast, reform, reshape, refashion, redesign, restyle, revamp, rework, remake, remodel, remould, redo, reconstruct, reorganize, reorder, refine, reorient, reorientate, vary, transform, transfigure, metamorphose, undergo a sea change, evolve
change, alter, adapt, modify, transform, transfigure, convert, metamorphose, mutate, reconstruct, remake, recast, reorganize, translate
1. 1.1with object Subject (base metals) to alchemical transmutation.
  （用炼金术）将（贱金属）变成金银
  the quest to transmute lead into gold
  对炼铅成金的探求。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The elixir is the Philosopher's Stone, the object which will transmute base metals into silver and gold, but also has the power of restoring health, curing all diseases.
  I brew potions and can occasionally transmute lead to gold.
  The alchemists of today are those nuclear chemists who routinely transmute uranium to plutonium by bombarding uranium with neutrons.
  Like the Stone, the Elixir could transmute base metals to gold.
  The conventional image of Paracelsus himself as the ultimate mystic who sought to transmute base metals into gold and to create homunculi must be re-evaluated.
  It is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
  Elements of occultism were reflected in claims of ability to prolong life and transmute metals.
  I take all of this lead and transmute it, by my art, into finest gold…
  Perhaps you can pay the surcharge in lead and someone in the back will transmute it into gold.
  Robert was especially taken with the stories that had grown up around the alchemist Nicholas Flamel, who it was said had transmuted mercury to silver half a millennium earlier.
  Alchemists never transmuted metals, never found a panacea, and never discovered the fountain of youth.
  If so, then Hermeticism could have to do with transmuting the ‘lead’ of ordinary experience into the ‘gold’ of consciousness.
  Subsequently, Dippel turned to alchemy and claimed to have discovered a secret formula by which he transmuted silver and mercury into pure gold.
  Alchemists, the tales go, sought to use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold.
  Others purported to have transmuted metals or concocted elixirs and sold their recipes to others.
  In alchemy, the production of the Philosopher's Stone that could transmute lead to gold, and confer immortality.

Derivatives

transmutability

noun tranzˌmjuːtəˈbɪləti

These questions point to the fluidity and transmutability of the questions we deal with as we re-imagine, re-read, re-tell and re-write the human record.
Example sentencesExamples
- Creation Science rejects almost all of modern science including the idea of old earth, the Big Bang, and transmutability of species.
- A similar transmutability of energy into information, and vice versa, although somewhat more subtle, may well drive 21st Century science and many of its applications.
- As such, even the his claim to have renounced the power of alchemy is still locked into its rhetorical presumption of the transmutability of self and world.
- I am also fascinated with the transmutability of digital information; the way that visuals can become sonic material and vice versa.

transmutable

adjective tranzˈmjuːtəb(ə)l

Of course, making crude and speculative drawings of atoms proves nothing, but it encourages the belief that elements are not transmutable but irrevocably different from one another.
Example sentencesExamples
- In addition, keep in mind that the new craft system means that a lot of common materials will be highly transmutable.
- It is here, around discourses to do with the transmutable body of Christ, that the Cartesian method becomes most apparent within her writing and in exchanges with her spiritual director.
- His work is in some ways truer to the nature of film than the more materialist British work, in that film color is itself somewhat arbitrary and transmutable.

transmutative

adjective

That cycle of transformation is now complete, and the transmutative cycle has begun.
Example sentencesExamples
- We also describe our attempts to produce a useful amount of transmutative product in the form of certain platinum group metals.
- By 1913 most of the gold had disappeared, but the transmutative effect of the rush survived.
- The works in this exhibition explore the space of fantasy as an ongoing process of transmutative imaginings.
- Echinacea Purpurea assists initiates in releasing cellular trauma during the transmutative process of ascension.
- Glued to his surveillance screens, the guard witnesses the improbable and transmutative movements of the stranger in the elevator.

transmuter

noun

What, is he one of those transmuters who looks like something from a horror movie?
Example sentencesExamples
- We had a transmuter change me from a housecat to a panther, and telekinesis became easier, because my mass was greater.
- It's full of illusionists and transmuters, and you're worried about hair color?

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin transmutare, from trans- 'across' + mutare 'to change'.

Rhymes

acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute

Definition of transmute in US English:

transmute

verb

1Change in form, nature, or substance.
（使）变形；（使）变质；（使）变化
with object the raw material of his experience was transmuted into stories
他经历中的原始素材被编成了故事。
no object the discovery that elements can transmute by radioactivity
关于辐射能使元素发生变化的发现。
Example sentencesExamples
- Like so many other beauty products, styling treatments have come a long, long way: 20 years ago there were products that, when dry, transmuted into white flakes of dandruff.
- Past experiences leave corresponding traces in mental space, suggesting how the mind retains but transmutes its sensory sources.
- Wall Street is transmuting electrons into big money.
- The city was engulfed by shock transmuted into compassion, grief and mourning.
- What was unassuming and harmless suddenly becomes ironic, transmuted into that elusive thing we call ‘art.’
- And the American dream that wealth transmutes success into happiness always ends in bitter disappointment.
- That is how we solve the problem, by channeling or transmuting our energy, desiring things that are more refined.
- The sniffles I have been nursing since July have transmuted into pure flu, as lead transmutes into gold.
- There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages.
- Such a society will see reality as something to be improved upon, perfected, transmuted into images.
- The ‘new’ had transmuted into the old almost overnight.
- Indeed, history itself is often not taught, being dumped instead into the soft-study mishmash called social studies or transmuted into half-baked courses in civics.
- It continues to run on the goggle-box and now has transmuted into a stage show.
- We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion.
- He could transmute wispy ideas into detailed plans and turn revolutionary dreams into enduring realities.
- Though despair at his material sometimes makes him bellow, he gives a bravura performance that transmutes pointlessness into poignancy.
- That system transmutes disaster into mass death.
- Much of the labour of our minds, conscious and unconscious, consists in transmuting Sentiments into Ideas.
- This sense of connectedness, it has been suggested, is transmuted beyond the individualistic to the universal in spiritual individuals, manifested in a compassionate concern for all humankind.
- The 1970s was a period when the Powellism of the 1960s came to suffuse the social fabric, and was gradually consolidated and transmuted into the Thatcherism of the 1980s.
Synonyms
alter, make different, become different, undergo a change, make alterations to, adjust, make adjustments to, adapt, turn, amend, improve, modify, convert, revise, recast, reform, reshape, refashion, redesign, restyle, revamp, rework, remake, remodel, remould, redo, reconstruct, reorganize, reorder, refine, reorient, reorientate, vary, transform, transfigure, metamorphose, undergo a sea change, evolve
change, alter, adapt, modify, transform, transfigure, convert, metamorphose, mutate, reconstruct, remake, recast, reorganize, translate
1. 1.1with object Subject (base metals) to alchemical transmutation.
  （用炼金术）将（贱金属）变成金银
  the quest to transmute lead into gold
  对炼铅成金的探求。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The conventional image of Paracelsus himself as the ultimate mystic who sought to transmute base metals into gold and to create homunculi must be re-evaluated.
  I take all of this lead and transmute it, by my art, into finest gold…
  If so, then Hermeticism could have to do with transmuting the ‘lead’ of ordinary experience into the ‘gold’ of consciousness.
  Subsequently, Dippel turned to alchemy and claimed to have discovered a secret formula by which he transmuted silver and mercury into pure gold.
  Alchemists never transmuted metals, never found a panacea, and never discovered the fountain of youth.
  The alchemists of today are those nuclear chemists who routinely transmute uranium to plutonium by bombarding uranium with neutrons.
  It is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
  Robert was especially taken with the stories that had grown up around the alchemist Nicholas Flamel, who it was said had transmuted mercury to silver half a millennium earlier.
  Like the Stone, the Elixir could transmute base metals to gold.
  Perhaps you can pay the surcharge in lead and someone in the back will transmute it into gold.
  Others purported to have transmuted metals or concocted elixirs and sold their recipes to others.
  Elements of occultism were reflected in claims of ability to prolong life and transmute metals.
  The elixir is the Philosopher's Stone, the object which will transmute base metals into silver and gold, but also has the power of restoring health, curing all diseases.
  I brew potions and can occasionally transmute lead to gold.
  In alchemy, the production of the Philosopher's Stone that could transmute lead to gold, and confer immortality.
  Alchemists, the tales go, sought to use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin transmutare, from trans- ‘across’ + mutare ‘to change’.

词汇	transmute
释义	Definition of transmute in English: transmute verb trɑːnsˈmjuːttransˈmjuːttranzˈmjuːttrɑːnzˈmjuːt 1Change in form, nature, or substance. （使）变形；（使）变质；（使）变化 with object the raw material of his experience was transmuted into stories 他经历中的原始素材被编成了故事。 no object the discovery that elements can transmute by radioactivity 关于辐射能使元素发生变化的发现。 Example sentencesExamples Past experiences leave corresponding traces in mental space, suggesting how the mind retains but transmutes its sensory sources. That is how we solve the problem, by channeling or transmuting our energy, desiring things that are more refined. The city was engulfed by shock transmuted into compassion, grief and mourning. There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages. The sniffles I have been nursing since July have transmuted into pure flu, as lead transmutes into gold. That system transmutes disaster into mass death. And the American dream that wealth transmutes success into happiness always ends in bitter disappointment. Such a society will see reality as something to be improved upon, perfected, transmuted into images. Indeed, history itself is often not taught, being dumped instead into the soft-study mishmash called social studies or transmuted into half-baked courses in civics. Like so many other beauty products, styling treatments have come a long, long way: 20 years ago there were products that, when dry, transmuted into white flakes of dandruff. This sense of connectedness, it has been suggested, is transmuted beyond the individualistic to the universal in spiritual individuals, manifested in a compassionate concern for all humankind. Wall Street is transmuting electrons into big money. Much of the labour of our minds, conscious and unconscious, consists in transmuting Sentiments into Ideas. The ‘new’ had transmuted into the old almost overnight. The 1970s was a period when the Powellism of the 1960s came to suffuse the social fabric, and was gradually consolidated and transmuted into the Thatcherism of the 1980s. Though despair at his material sometimes makes him bellow, he gives a bravura performance that transmutes pointlessness into poignancy. What was unassuming and harmless suddenly becomes ironic, transmuted into that elusive thing we call ‘art.’ It continues to run on the goggle-box and now has transmuted into a stage show. He could transmute wispy ideas into detailed plans and turn revolutionary dreams into enduring realities. We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion. Synonyms alter, make different, become different, undergo a change, make alterations to, adjust, make adjustments to, adapt, turn, amend, improve, modify, convert, revise, recast, reform, reshape, refashion, redesign, restyle, revamp, rework, remake, remodel, remould, redo, reconstruct, reorganize, reorder, refine, reorient, reorientate, vary, transform, transfigure, metamorphose, undergo a sea change, evolve change, alter, adapt, modify, transform, transfigure, convert, metamorphose, mutate, reconstruct, remake, recast, reorganize, translate 1.1with object Subject (base metals) to alchemical transmutation. （用炼金术）将（贱金属）变成金银 the quest to transmute lead into gold 对炼铅成金的探求。 Example sentencesExamples The elixir is the Philosopher's Stone, the object which will transmute base metals into silver and gold, but also has the power of restoring health, curing all diseases. I brew potions and can occasionally transmute lead to gold. The alchemists of today are those nuclear chemists who routinely transmute uranium to plutonium by bombarding uranium with neutrons. Like the Stone, the Elixir could transmute base metals to gold. The conventional image of Paracelsus himself as the ultimate mystic who sought to transmute base metals into gold and to create homunculi must be re-evaluated. It is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. Elements of occultism were reflected in claims of ability to prolong life and transmute metals. I take all of this lead and transmute it, by my art, into finest gold… Perhaps you can pay the surcharge in lead and someone in the back will transmute it into gold. Robert was especially taken with the stories that had grown up around the alchemist Nicholas Flamel, who it was said had transmuted mercury to silver half a millennium earlier. Alchemists never transmuted metals, never found a panacea, and never discovered the fountain of youth. If so, then Hermeticism could have to do with transmuting the ‘lead’ of ordinary experience into the ‘gold’ of consciousness. Subsequently, Dippel turned to alchemy and claimed to have discovered a secret formula by which he transmuted silver and mercury into pure gold. Alchemists, the tales go, sought to use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. Others purported to have transmuted metals or concocted elixirs and sold their recipes to others. In alchemy, the production of the Philosopher's Stone that could transmute lead to gold, and confer immortality. Derivatives transmutability noun tranzˌmjuːtəˈbɪləti These questions point to the fluidity and transmutability of the questions we deal with as we re-imagine, re-read, re-tell and re-write the human record. Example sentencesExamples Creation Science rejects almost all of modern science including the idea of old earth, the Big Bang, and transmutability of species. A similar transmutability of energy into information, and vice versa, although somewhat more subtle, may well drive 21st Century science and many of its applications. As such, even the his claim to have renounced the power of alchemy is still locked into its rhetorical presumption of the transmutability of self and world. I am also fascinated with the transmutability of digital information; the way that visuals can become sonic material and vice versa. transmutable adjective tranzˈmjuːtəb(ə)l Of course, making crude and speculative drawings of atoms proves nothing, but it encourages the belief that elements are not transmutable but irrevocably different from one another. Example sentencesExamples In addition, keep in mind that the new craft system means that a lot of common materials will be highly transmutable. It is here, around discourses to do with the transmutable body of Christ, that the Cartesian method becomes most apparent within her writing and in exchanges with her spiritual director. His work is in some ways truer to the nature of film than the more materialist British work, in that film color is itself somewhat arbitrary and transmutable. transmutative adjective That cycle of transformation is now complete, and the transmutative cycle has begun. Example sentencesExamples We also describe our attempts to produce a useful amount of transmutative product in the form of certain platinum group metals. By 1913 most of the gold had disappeared, but the transmutative effect of the rush survived. The works in this exhibition explore the space of fantasy as an ongoing process of transmutative imaginings. Echinacea Purpurea assists initiates in releasing cellular trauma during the transmutative process of ascension. Glued to his surveillance screens, the guard witnesses the improbable and transmutative movements of the stranger in the elevator. transmuter noun What, is he one of those transmuters who looks like something from a horror movie? Example sentencesExamples We had a transmuter change me from a housecat to a panther, and telekinesis became easier, because my mass was greater. It's full of illusionists and transmuters, and you're worried about hair color? Origin Late Middle English: from Latin transmutare, from trans- 'across' + mutare 'to change'. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Definition of transmute in US English: transmute verb 1Change in form, nature, or substance. （使）变形；（使）变质；（使）变化 with object the raw material of his experience was transmuted into stories 他经历中的原始素材被编成了故事。 no object the discovery that elements can transmute by radioactivity 关于辐射能使元素发生变化的发现。 Example sentencesExamples Like so many other beauty products, styling treatments have come a long, long way: 20 years ago there were products that, when dry, transmuted into white flakes of dandruff. Past experiences leave corresponding traces in mental space, suggesting how the mind retains but transmutes its sensory sources. Wall Street is transmuting electrons into big money. The city was engulfed by shock transmuted into compassion, grief and mourning. What was unassuming and harmless suddenly becomes ironic, transmuted into that elusive thing we call ‘art.’ And the American dream that wealth transmutes success into happiness always ends in bitter disappointment. That is how we solve the problem, by channeling or transmuting our energy, desiring things that are more refined. The sniffles I have been nursing since July have transmuted into pure flu, as lead transmutes into gold. There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages. Such a society will see reality as something to be improved upon, perfected, transmuted into images. The ‘new’ had transmuted into the old almost overnight. Indeed, history itself is often not taught, being dumped instead into the soft-study mishmash called social studies or transmuted into half-baked courses in civics. It continues to run on the goggle-box and now has transmuted into a stage show. We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion. He could transmute wispy ideas into detailed plans and turn revolutionary dreams into enduring realities. Though despair at his material sometimes makes him bellow, he gives a bravura performance that transmutes pointlessness into poignancy. That system transmutes disaster into mass death. Much of the labour of our minds, conscious and unconscious, consists in transmuting Sentiments into Ideas. This sense of connectedness, it has been suggested, is transmuted beyond the individualistic to the universal in spiritual individuals, manifested in a compassionate concern for all humankind. The 1970s was a period when the Powellism of the 1960s came to suffuse the social fabric, and was gradually consolidated and transmuted into the Thatcherism of the 1980s. Synonyms alter, make different, become different, undergo a change, make alterations to, adjust, make adjustments to, adapt, turn, amend, improve, modify, convert, revise, recast, reform, reshape, refashion, redesign, restyle, revamp, rework, remake, remodel, remould, redo, reconstruct, reorganize, reorder, refine, reorient, reorientate, vary, transform, transfigure, metamorphose, undergo a sea change, evolve change, alter, adapt, modify, transform, transfigure, convert, metamorphose, mutate, reconstruct, remake, recast, reorganize, translate 1.1with object Subject (base metals) to alchemical transmutation. （用炼金术）将（贱金属）变成金银 the quest to transmute lead into gold 对炼铅成金的探求。 Example sentencesExamples The conventional image of Paracelsus himself as the ultimate mystic who sought to transmute base metals into gold and to create homunculi must be re-evaluated. I take all of this lead and transmute it, by my art, into finest gold… If so, then Hermeticism could have to do with transmuting the ‘lead’ of ordinary experience into the ‘gold’ of consciousness. Subsequently, Dippel turned to alchemy and claimed to have discovered a secret formula by which he transmuted silver and mercury into pure gold. Alchemists never transmuted metals, never found a panacea, and never discovered the fountain of youth. The alchemists of today are those nuclear chemists who routinely transmute uranium to plutonium by bombarding uranium with neutrons. It is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. Robert was especially taken with the stories that had grown up around the alchemist Nicholas Flamel, who it was said had transmuted mercury to silver half a millennium earlier. Like the Stone, the Elixir could transmute base metals to gold. Perhaps you can pay the surcharge in lead and someone in the back will transmute it into gold. Others purported to have transmuted metals or concocted elixirs and sold their recipes to others. Elements of occultism were reflected in claims of ability to prolong life and transmute metals. The elixir is the Philosopher's Stone, the object which will transmute base metals into silver and gold, but also has the power of restoring health, curing all diseases. I brew potions and can occasionally transmute lead to gold. In alchemy, the production of the Philosopher's Stone that could transmute lead to gold, and confer immortality. Alchemists, the tales go, sought to use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin transmutare, from trans- ‘across’ + mutare ‘to change’.
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