Converse vs. Conversation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Converse and Conversation
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Converse
To engage in an exchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language.
Conversation
Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization.
Converse
(Archaic) To interact socially with others; associate.
Conversation
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
Converse
An interchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language; conversation.
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Conversation
The exchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language
Gifted in the art of conversation.
Converse
Social interaction.
Conversation
An instance of this
Held a long conversation on the subject.
Converse
Something that has been reversed; an opposite.
Conversation
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.
Converse
(Logic) A proposition obtained by conversion.
Conversation
(fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
Converse
Reversed, as in position, order, or action; contrary.
Conversation
The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
Converse
To talk; to engage in conversation.
Conversation
(obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
Converse
(followed by with) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
Conversation
(archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
Converse
(obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
Conversation
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
Criminal conversation
Converse
Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
Conversation
(obsolete) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.
Converse
The opposite or reverse.
Conversation
To engage in conversation (with).
Converse
(logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true.".
All trees are plants, but the converse, that all plants are trees, is not true.
Conversation
General course of conduct; behavior.
Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.
Converse
(semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
Conversation
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.
Converse
Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal
A converse proposition
Conversation
Commerce; intercourse; traffic.
All traffic and mutual conversation.
Converse
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; - followed by with.
To seek the distant hills, and there converseWith nature.
Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
But to converse with heaven -This is not easy.
Conversation
Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel.
Converse
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.
CompanionsThat do converse and waste the time together.
We had conversed so often on that subject.
Conversation
Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
Converse
To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; - said of things.
According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety.
Conversation
The use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
Converse
Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
"T is but to holdConverse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.
Converse
Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
Formed by thy converse happily to steerFrom grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Converse
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.
Converse
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.
Converse
Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
Converse
A proposition obtained by conversion
Converse
Carry on a conversation
Converse
Of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other;
`parental' and `filial' are converse terms
Converse
Turned about in order or relation;
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