Converse vs Roar - What's the difference?
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(formal) To talk; to engage in conversation.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with .
* Thomson
* Sir Walter Scott
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
* John Locke
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:
* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh’, The Toys of Peace'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories ), p. 405:
Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
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" .
To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
* Dryden
To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
* Spenser
Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
* Milton
* Gray
(figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
* Ford
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, title= To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
* Bishop Burnet
To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
A long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.
The cry of the lion.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
The deep cry of the bull.
A loud resounding noise.
* 1944, , Brave Men , University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
A show of strength or character.
Converse is a related term of roar.
As a verb converse
is .As a proper noun roar is
.converse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(convers)- Companions / That do converse and waste the time together.
- We had conversed so often on that subject.
- To seek the distant hills, and there converse / With nature.
- Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
- But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
- according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
Derived terms
* conversationNoun
(en noun)- 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 [...].
- 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
(-)- a converse proposition
Noun
(en noun)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
* converselyAnagrams
* * English heteronyms ----roar
English
Verb
(en verb)- Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
- The audience roared at his jokes.
- Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
- The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar .
- How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar .
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- This last action will roar thy infamy.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
Noun
(en noun)- The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
- the roar of a motorbike
- "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."