CONVERSE
\kˈɒnvɜːs], \kˈɒnvɜːs], \k_ˈɒ_n_v_ɜː_s]\
Definitions of CONVERSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a proposition obtained by conversion
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of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other; "`parental' and `filial' are converse terms"
By Princeton University
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a proposition obtained by conversion
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of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other; "`parental' and `filial' are converse terms"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
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To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.
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To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.
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Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
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Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
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Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
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A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.
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A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.
By Oddity Software
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To interchange thoughts; talk familiarly.
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Reversed in order or relation; opposite.
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Conversely.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Conversely.
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To have intercourse: to talk familiarly.
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Familiar intercourse: conversation.
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A proposition converted or turned about - i.e. one in which the subject and predicate have changed places.
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Reversed in order or relation.
By Daniel Lyons
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Conversely.
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To speak together informally and alternately.
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To associate; commune.
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Transposed; reversed.
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Conversation; intercourse; communion.
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The reverse; an inverted proposition.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To hold intercourse with; to interchange thoughts or talk familiarly with.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To talk familiarly with; to speak with, as a friend with a friend; to convey thoughts and opinions in friendly intercourse.
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Familiar discourse or talk.
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In math., an opposite proposition; in logic, a sentence or proposition in which the terms are interchanged, as putting the predicate for the subject.
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Opposite; reciprocal.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Familiarity; acquaintance; —familiar discourse or talk; —a proposition which is formed from another by interchanging the subject and predicate.
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Manner of discoursing in familiar life; acquaintance, cohabitation, familiarity; with geometricians it means the contrary.
By Thomas Sheridan
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