Converse vs Transfer - 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 move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
To be or become transferred.
(legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
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(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
(medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
As a verb converse
is .As a noun transfer is
transfer.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 ----transfer
English
(wikipedia transfer)Verb
(transferr)- to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
- to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- The title to land is transferred by deed.
Synonyms
* carry over, move, onpass * (convey impression of from one surface to another) copy, transpose * (to be or become transferred)Derived terms
* transferee * transferorNoun
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