What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Converse vs Conserve - What's the difference?

converse | conserve |

Conserve is a anagram of converse.



In obsolete terms the difference between converse and conserve

is that converse is to have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study while conserve is a conservatory.

As verbs the difference between converse and conserve

is that converse is to talk; to engage in conversation while conserve is to save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.

As nouns the difference between converse and conserve

is that converse is (noun_discourse) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat while conserve is wilderness where human development is prohibited.

As an adjective converse

is opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.

converse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Verb

(convers)
  • (formal) To talk; to engage in conversation.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Companions / That do converse and waste the time together.
  • * Dryden
    • We had conversed so often on that subject.
  • To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with .
  • * Thomson
    • To seek the distant hills, and there converse / With nature.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
  • * Wordsworth
    • But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
  • (obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
  • * John Locke
    • according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
    Derived terms
    * conversation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
  • * 1728 , (Edward Young), Love of Fame, the Universal Passion , Satire V, On Women, lines 44-46:
    • Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day [...].
  • * 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh’, The Toys of Peace'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories ), p. 405:
    • In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
    • a converse proposition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The opposite or reverse.
  • (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."''
    equivalently: ''given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs"     .
    • All trees are plants, but the converse , that all plants are trees, is not true.
    Derived terms
    * conversely

    Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms ----

    conserve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Wilderness where human development is prohibited.
  • A jam or thick syrup made from fruit.
  • * Tatler
    • I shall study broths, plasters, and conserves , till from a fine lady I become a notable woman.
  • (obsolete) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar.
  • (obsolete) A conservatory.
    • (Evelyn)

    Verb

    (conserv)
  • To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
    • to conserve fruits with sugar
  • * Strype
    • the amity which they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor
  • To protect an environment.
  • (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process

    • Derived terms

    * conservation * conservative * conservatory

    Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms ----