Converse vs Verse - What's the difference?
converse | verse |
(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" .
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
Poetic form in general.
One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
(obsolete) To compose verses.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
To tell in verse, or poetry.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
to educate about, to teach about.
* , chapter=22
, title= (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
As a verb converse
is .As a noun verse is
dew, dampness.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 ----verse
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* blank verse * free verseVerb
(vers)- It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
- playing on pipes of corn and versing love
Etymology 2
Verb
(vers)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.