| English > English | |
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| conversing | |
| 1. n. conversation |  |
| converse | |
| 1. v. (formal, intransitive) to talk; to engage in conversation | |
| 2. v. to keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with | |
| 3. v. (obsolete) to have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study | |
| 4. n. (now literary) familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat. | |
| 5. adj. opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal | |
| a converse proposition | |
| 6. n. the opposite or reverse | |
| 7. n. (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. | |
| 8. n. (semantics) one of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym | |
