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Versus vs Relationship - What's the difference?

versus | relationship |

As a preposition versus

is (l); (l).

As a noun relationship is

connection or association; the condition of being related.

versus

English

(wikipedia versus)

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)
  • (Used to link two or more opposing or contrasting elements).

    • Synonyms

    * vs,

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • against, in opposition to.
    • It is the Packers versus the Steelers in the Super Bowl.
  • 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 citation
    • , 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, page 104:
    • 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.
  • 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).
    • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.

    Synonyms

    * vs,

    Related terms

    * vertex * subvert * invert * convert * evert * verse English coordinating conjunctions ----

    relationship

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Connection or association; the condition of being related.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
    • , title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
  • Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
  • A romantic or sexual involvement.
  • A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
    • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=“I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons : the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship .}}
  • (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

    • Derived terms

    *

    See also

    * relate * relation * relative