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- Dictionarycon·verse
noun
- 1. a situation, object, or statement that is the reverse of another or corresponds to it but with certain terms transposed: "if spirituality is properly political, the converse is also true: politics is properly spiritual"
adjective
- 1. having characteristics which are the reverse of something else already mentioned: "the slow process of growth and the converse process of decay"
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Apr 26, 2011 · As a software engineer, I am familiar with logic, and so converse and inverse are everyday words for me. The converse, defined as swapping hypothesis and conclusion, is of course a position change. Since reverse indicates direction, I have often heard and even used reverse as a natural substitute for converse.
Oct 24, 2015 at 20:15. 1. @Cameron If you're writing academic lit-crit, you may use your own private language. That said, given the proposition "If p, then q", the statement "If not p, then not q" is the inverse. The converse switches p and q: "If q, then p." Neither is logically equivalent to the original. – deadrat.
Sep 30, 2018 · @KarlG If I had to simplify your answer, it'd be, "Nothing is stopping Gina from linguistic relativism, but she will pay for deviations from descriptive definitions socially, to a degree that is proportional to the amount of deviation (i.e. a slight variation on a dictionary definition yields less confusion and fewer social consequences than a definition that means the 'polar opposite' of the ...
To address words or discourse to (a person); to talk to, converse with. to speak to (see quot. 1837), so as to have conversation or personal acquaintance with one. Freq. in the phr. ‘to know (one) to speak to’. c825 Vesp. Psalter xlix. 7 [Ic] sprecu to Israhela folce. 971 Blickl. Hom. 141 Heo spræc to þæm weorode & cwæþ [etc.].
Jul 4, 2011 · 4. There could be a problem here: the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class (at least in England) are not the same as the casual/athletic shoes usually called 'trainers'. The former are called plimsolls or gym shoes, and are very much less substantial. OP clearly does not refer to these, but the two surveys may well do.
Hmm, okay, a totally non-grammatical (probably, and thus very likely totally wrong) answer by an avowed non-grammarian (who nevertheless described and describes himself as a grammar-nazi at times):
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In particular, I want to ask if we have the term "conserved food". E.g. I have ordered some of your favorite dishes, like chicken, pork, and [conserved/preserved] fish. This is a question in o...
talk: speak in order to give information or express ideas or feelings; converse or communicate by spoken words. Obviously, the two words are synonyms. Speak can sometimes sound a little more formal than talk but there really is no "definitive difference" between the two. While there are certain contexts where I might highly favor one over the ...
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