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Discus vs Converse - What's the difference?

discus | converse |

As a noun discus

is a round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.

As a verb converse is

.

discus

English

(discus throw)

Noun

(discuses)
  • A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
  • * 2004 , Frank Fitzpatrick, "The amazing story of the first discus medal winner", The Philadelphia Inquirer , August 18,
    • He [ won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.
  • * 2008 , John Branch, " Estonia's Kanter Celebrates Gold Medal in the Discus His Way", The New York Times , August 23,
    • [Gerd] Kanter had agreed to demonstrate his throwing skill on Friday, but rather than bringing his own discuses —he usually travels with about five of them,
  • (uncountable) The athletics sport of discus throwing.
  • * 2008 , " Weir lays down marker in Beijing", BBC , September 8,
    • And Chris Martin took a silver medal in the discus on the opening day in the Bird's Nest,
  • A discus fish.
  • * 2008 , Carol Roberts, " History of Discus", North American Discus Association ,
    • The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus .
  • (rare, dated) A chakram.
  • * 1893 , Krishna-Swaipayana Vyasa, translated by K. M. Ganguli, ,
    • And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.
  • * 1899 , ",
    • If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor he should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass, of flesh,

    Synonyms

    * (round plate) quoit

    Usage notes

    * Although an alternative latinate plural (disci) is often cited, it is hardly ever used in practice.

    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 ----