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2. Conversion He was knocked out in the first round. Round the number off to the nearest ten. The neighbors gathered round our barbecue. The moon was bright and round. People came from all the country round. Conversion is a process of word-formation in which a word is shifted from one part of speech into another without changing the form of the word. Conversion is also called zero-derivation(零位派生法). Words produced by conversion are primarily nouns, adjectives and verbs. The most productive, however, is the conversion that takes place between nouns and verbs. Conversion to Nouns