morph
/mɔːf/verb
उच्चारण मॉर्फ़
धीरे-धीरे (किसी और रूप में) बदलना या बदल देना
Core word
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[I, T] ~ (sth) (into sth)
to change, or make somebody or something change, gradually into something different
धीरे-धीरे (किसी और रूप में) बदलना या बदल देना
- The small protest soon morphed into a national movement.
- Radhika has morphed from a shy student into a confident speaker.
- The quiet town has morphed into a busy tourist hub.
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- Over the years the small shop morphed into a big chain.
- The song morphs from a slow ballad into a fast dance number.
Synonyms transform change turn evolve metamorphose
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[I, T] technical
to change one image into another gradually on a computer screen; to change an image in this way
(कंप्यूटर पर चित्र को) बदलना, मॉर्फ़ करना
- Police said the photograph had been morphed.
- The editor used software to morph the face of a child into that of an old man.
- The video morphs a lion's face into a man's.
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- Fraudsters morphed her photo and posted it online.
- The designer morphed the old logo into the new one.
§Structures (grammar patterns) 4
morph into + noun
Morph into shows the thing that something gradually becomes. It is usually intransitive and takes into.
'Morph into' बताता है कि कोई चीज़ धीरे-धीरे क्या बन जाती है। यह प्रायः अकर्मक होती है और इसके साथ 'into' आता है।
- The caterpillar morphs into a butterfly.
- The small shop morphed into a large company.
morph A into B (transitive)
As a transitive verb, morph means to make one image or thing change into another, especially on a computer.
सकर्मक क्रिया के रूप में 'morph' का अर्थ किसी चित्र या वस्तु को दूसरे रूप में बदलना है, विशेषकर कंप्यूटर पर।
- The software can morph a cat's face into a lion's.
- The film morphs one actor into another.
morph (noun, technical)
In linguistics and computing, a morph is a form that something takes; in computer graphics, a morph is the effect of a smooth change between images.
भाषाविज्ञान और कंप्यूटर में 'morph' किसी चीज़ का रूप है; कंप्यूटर ग्राफिक्स में यह दो चित्रों के बीच सहज परिवर्तन का प्रभाव है।
- The video ends with a morph from a child to an old man.
- A word's different forms are sometimes called morphs.
morph + adverb / gradual change
The verb stresses slow change, so adverbs like slowly, gradually, quickly and seamlessly are common.
यह क्रिया धीमे परिवर्तन पर बल देती है, इसलिए slowly, gradually, quickly और seamlessly जैसे adverbs आम हैं।
- Their friendship gradually morphed into love.
- The logo morphs quickly from one shape to another.
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morph + preposition
intofrombetweentowards
- The small blog morphed into a popular news website.
adverb + morph
slowlygraduallysuddenlyeasilyseamlessly
- The song gradually morphs from slow to fast.
noun + morph
a face morpha video morphan image morphan animated morph
- The teacher showed a face morph in the media class.
subject + morph
the idea morphedthe plan morphedthe protest morphedthe movement morphed
- The small protest morphed into a national movement.
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- The school magazine morphed from a small leaflet into a colourful monthly.
विद्यालय की पत्रिका एक छोटे पर्चे से बदलकर रंगीन मासिक पत्रिका बन गई।
- The editor used software to morph one photograph into another.
संपादक ने एक फोटो को दूसरे में बदलने के लिए software का उपयोग किया।
- In the film, the villain morphs into a giant spider.
फिल्म में खलनायक एक विशाल मकड़ी में बदल जाता है।
- Radhika's hobby of drawing morphed into a career in design.
राधिका का चित्र बनाने का शौक डिज़ाइन के क्षेत्र में करियर बन गया।
- The rain morphed into a storm by evening.
बारिश शाम तक तूफ़ान में बदल गई।
!Common mistakes 1
✗ The tadpole morphed to a frog.
✓ The tadpole morphed into a frog.
Morph takes into, not to, before the new form.
नए रूप से पहले 'morph' के साथ 'into' आता है, 'to' नहीं।
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Synonyms
⌂Word origin and word building
From the Greek word morphē, meaning 'shape', as also seen in metamorphosis.
यह Greek शब्द morphē से बना है, जिसका अर्थ 'आकार' है, जैसा metamorphosis में भी दिखता है।