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Converse vs Impart - What's the difference?

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Converse is a related term of impart.


As verbs the difference between converse and impart

is that converse is while impart is to give a (l) or (l).

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 ----

    impart

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give a (l) or (l).
  • To (l) the (l) of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • Well may he then to you his cares impart .
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • To hold a (l) or (l).
  • To obtain a share of; to partake of.
    • (Munday)

    Synonyms

    * (to give a part or share) (l), (l), (l) * (to communicate knowledge of) (l), (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l)