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In linguistics, conversion, also called zero derivation, is a kind of word formation; specifically, it is the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in its form. Conversion is more productive in some languages than in others; in English, it is fairly productive process.
Often a word of one lexical category( parts of speech) is converted from a word of another lexical category; For example:- the noun green in golf( referring to putting-green) is derived ultimately from the adjective green. Conversions from adjectives to nouns and vice-versa are both common and unnotable in English; much more remarked upon is verbing, the creation of a verb by converting a noun or other word(e.g. the adjective clean becomes the verb clean in some sentences).
In other words, it is a linguistic process that assigns an already existing word to a new word class or syntactic category. This process is called functional shift or conversion or zero derivation.