Converse vs. Obverse — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Converse and Obverse
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Converse
To engage in an exchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language.
Obverse
Facing or turned toward the observer
The obverse side of a statue.
Converse
(Archaic) To interact socially with others; associate.
Obverse
Serving as a counterpart or complement.
Converse
An interchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language; conversation.
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Obverse
The side of a coin, medal, or badge that bears the principal stamp or design.
Converse
Social interaction.
Obverse
The more conspicuous of two possible alternatives, cases, or sides
The obverse of this issue.
Converse
Something that has been reversed; an opposite.
Obverse
(Logic) The counterpart of a proposition obtained by exchanging the affirmative for the negative quality of the whole proposition and then negating the predicate
The obverse of "Every act is predictable" is "No act is unpredictable.".
Converse
(Logic) A proposition obtained by conversion.
Obverse
Turned or facing toward the observer.
The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.
Converse
Reversed, as in position, order, or action; contrary.
Obverse
Corresponding; complementary.
When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.
Converse
To talk; to engage in conversation.
Obverse
(botany) Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.
An obverse leaf
Converse
(followed by with) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
Obverse
The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.
Converse
(obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
Obverse
(logic) A proposition obtained by obversion, e.g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal.
Converse
Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
Obverse
Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
Converse
The opposite or reverse.
Obverse
The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; - the other side being the reverse.
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.
Obverse
Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief.
Converse
(semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
Obverse
The more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides;
The obverse of this issue
Converse
Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal
A converse proposition
Obverse
The side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design
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.
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.
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.
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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