Could a wooden carrier become a battleship?

Could a wooden aircraft carrier be converted into a battleship, and what would it look like?

It is possible in principle, but a Lexington-style battlecruiser is the more meaningful model for thinking through the result.

The proposed conversion was technically possible in broad outline, but the Lexington battlecruiser is the more useful comparison. Reversing a carrier conversion would not simply produce a conventional battleship because the hull form, machinery, protection, and internal arrangement would still reflect the ship's origins. The answer frames conversion around the original platform and strategic purpose rather than treating ship type as an interchangeable label. The later Lexington discussion further shows how an inherited capital-ship hull constrained what a carrier could become.