Versus vs Confront - What's the difference?
versus | confront |
against, in opposition to.
compared with, as opposed to.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. }}
* 2005 , Robert E. Weiss, Modeling Longitudinal Data , Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-40271-0,
Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.
To deal with.
To something bring face to face with.
To come up against; to encounter.
To engage in confrontation.
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
As a conjunction versus
is Used to link two or more opposing or contrasting elements.As a preposition versus
is against, in opposition to.As a verb confront is
to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.versus
English
(wikipedia versus)Synonyms
* vs,Preposition
(English prepositions)- It is the Packers versus the Steelers in the Super Bowl.
citation
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- If, for example, we select random people entering a workout gym, versus if we pick random people entering a hospital, we will get very different samples.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
Synonyms
* vs,confront
English
Verb
(en verb)- We should confront him about the missing money.