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con⋅verse
1
[v. kuh
n-vurs; n. kon-vurs] 
verb, -versed, -vers⋅ing, noun –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 fol. by with). |
| 3. | Obsolete. to have sexual intercourse (usually fol. by with). |
–noun
| 4. | familiar discourse or talk; conversation. |
con⋅verse
2 [adj. kuhn-vurs, kon-vurs; n. kon-vurs] –adjective
| 1. | opposite or contrary in direction, action, sequence, etc.; turned around. |
–noun
| 2. | something opposite or contrary. |
| 3. | Logic.
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| 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.” |
Con⋅verse
[kon-vurs] –noun
| Frederick Shep⋅herd [shep-erd] , 1871–1940, U.S. composer. |
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| con·verse 1 (kən-vûrs') intr.v. con·versed, con·vers·ing, con·vers·es
[Middle English conversen, to associate with, from Old French converser, from Latin conversārī : com-, com- + versārī, to occupy oneself; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| con·verse 2 (kən-vûrs', kŏn'vûrs') adj. Reversed, as in position, order, or action; contrary. n. (kŏn'vûrs')
[Latin conversus, past participle of convertere, to turn around; see convert.] con·verse'ly adv. |
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Converse
Con*verse"\ (k[o^]n*v[~e]rs"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conversed; p. pr. & vb. n. Conversing.] [F. converser, L. conversari to associate with; con- + versari to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. of vertere to turn See Convert.]1. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. --Thomson. Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions. --Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven - This is not easy. --Wordsworth. 2. 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. Companions That do converse and waste the time together. --Shak. We had conversed so often on that subject. --Dryden. 3. To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things. According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety. --Locke. Syn: To associate; commune; discourse; talk; chat.Converse
Con"verse\, n. 1. Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association. --Glanvill. "T is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. --Byron. 2. Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat. Formed by thy converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. --Pope.Converse
Con"verse\, a. [L. conversus, p. p. of convertere. See Convert.] Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.Converse
Con"verse\, n. 1. (Logic) 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. Note: It should not (as is often done) be confounded with the contrary or opposite of a proposition, which is formed by introducing the negative not or no. 2. (Math.) 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.
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Language Translation for : converse
Spanish:
conversar, charlar,
German:
sich unterhalten,
Japanese:
語り合う
converse (v.)
"to communicate (with)," 1596; earlier "to move about" (1340), from O.Fr. converser (12c.), from L. conversari (see conversation).
converse (adj.)
"exact opposite," 1570, from L. conversus "turn around," pp. of convertere "to turn about" (see convert). Originally mathematical.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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converse logic
The 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
(2002-07-12)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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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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