Conversation vs. Argument

Conversationnoun

(obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.

Argumentnoun

A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.

Conversationnoun

(archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.

Argumentnoun

A verbal dispute; a quarrel.

Conversationnoun

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

Argumentnoun

A process of reasoning.

Conversationnoun

(obsolete) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.; understanding, familiarity.

Argumentnoun

A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.

Conversationnoun

Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.

‘I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.’;

Argumentnoun

(mathematics) The independent variable of a function.

Conversationnoun

(fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.

Argumentnoun

(mathematics) The phase of a complex number.

Conversationnoun

(computing) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.

Argumentnoun

(programming) A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.

‘Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.’;

Conversationverb

To engage in conversation (with).

Argumentnoun

(programming) A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.

Conversationnoun

General course of conduct; behavior.

‘Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.’;

Argumentnoun

(linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.

Conversationnoun

Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.

‘I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business.’;

Argumentnoun

(astronomy) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.

‘The altitude is the argument of the refraction.’;

Conversationnoun

Commerce; intercourse; traffic.

‘All traffic and mutual conversation.’;

Argumentnoun

The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.

Conversationnoun

Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.

‘The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel.’;

Argumentnoun

Matter for question; business in hand.

Conversationnoun

Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.

Argumentverb

To put forward as an argument; to argue.

Conversationnoun

the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.

Argumentnoun

Proof; evidence.

‘There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity.’; ‘Why, then, is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion?’;

Conversationnoun

a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged

‘she picked up the phone and held a conversation in French’; ‘the two men were deep in conversation’;

Argumentnoun

A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.

Conversation

Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization.

Argumentnoun

A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.

‘The argument is about things, but names.’;

Argumentnoun

The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.

‘You and love are still my argument.’; ‘The abstract or argument of the piece.’; ‘[Shields] with boastful argument portrayed.’;

Argumentnoun

Matter for question; business in hand.

‘Sheathed their swords for lack of argument.’;

Argumentnoun

The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.

Argumentnoun

The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.

Argumentverb

To make an argument; to argue.

Argumentnoun

a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true;

‘it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true’;

Argumentnoun

a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;

‘they were involved in a violent argument’;

Argumentnoun

a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal;

‘the argument over foreign aid goes on and on’;

Argumentnoun

a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie;

‘the editor added the argument to the poem’;

Argumentnoun

a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable

Argumentnoun

an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one

‘there was some argument about the decision’; ‘I've had an argument with my father’; ‘heated arguments over public spending’;

Argumentnoun

a reason or set of reasons given in support of an idea, action or theory

‘he rejected the argument that keeping the facility would be costly’; ‘there is a strong argument for submitting a formal appeal’;

Argumentnoun

an independent variable associated with a function or proposition and determining its value. For example, in the expression y = F(x₁, x₂), the arguments of the function F are x₁ and x₂, and the value is y.

Argumentnoun

another term for amplitude (sense 4)

Argumentnoun

any of the noun phrases in a clause that are related directly to the verb, typically the subject, direct object, and indirect object.

Argumentnoun

a summary of the subject matter of a book.

Argument

In logic and philosophy, an argument is a series of statements (in a natural language), called the premises or premisses (both spellings are acceptable), intended to determine the degree of truth of another statement, the conclusion. The logical form of an argument in a natural language can be represented in a symbolic formal language, and independently of natural language formally defined can be made in math and computer science.

‘arguments’;