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verb (used without object)
1.
to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
2.
Archaic. to maintain a familiar association (usually followed by with).
3.
Obsolete. to have sexual intercourse (usually followed by with).
noun
4.
familiar discourse or talk; conversation.
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Converse
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adjective
1.
opposite or contrary in direction, action, sequence, etc.; turned around.
noun
2.
something opposite or contrary.
3.
Logic.
a.
a proposition obtained from another proposition by conversion.
b.
the relation between two terms, one of which is related to the other in a given manner, as “younger than” to “older than.”
4.
a group of words correlative with a preceding group but having a significant pair of terms interchanged, as “hot in winter but cold in summer” and “cold in winter but hot in summer.”
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| converse1 | |
| —vb (often foll by with) | |
| 1. | to engage in conversation (with) |
| 2. | to commune spiritually (with) |
| 3. | obsolete |
| a. to associate; consort | |
| b. to have sexual intercourse | |
| —n | |
| 4. | conversation (often in the phrase hold converse with) |
| 5. | obsolete |
| a. fellowship or acquaintance | |
| b. sexual intercourse | |
| [C16: from Old French converser, from Latin conversārī to keep company with, from conversāre to turn constantly, from vertere to turn] | |
| con'verser1 | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
converse
"to communicate (with)," 1590s; earlier "to move about" (mid-14c.), from O.Fr. converser (12c.), from L. conversari (see conversation). Related: Conversing.
EXPANDconverse
"exact opposite," 1570, from L. conversus "turn around," pp. of convertere "to turn about" (see convert). Originally mathematical. Related: Conversely (1806).
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Computing Dictionary
converse definition
logicThe truth of a proposition of the form A => B and its converse B => A are shown in the following truth table:
A B | A => B B => A ------+---------------- f f | t t f t | t f t f | f t t t | t t
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
converse
in logic, the proposition resulting from an interchange of subject and predicate with each other. Thus, the converse of "No man is a pencil" is "No pencil is a man." In traditional syllogistics, generally only E (universal negative) and I (particular affirmative) propositions yield a valid converse. The converse of a relation R is the relation S such that xSy (y has the relation S to x) if, and only if, yRx (x has the relation R to y). If a relation is identical to its converse, it is symmetric
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