noun
definition
Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
verb
definition
To talk; to engage in conversation
definition
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with
definition
To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study
Examples of converse in a Sentence
The problem he set himself was the exact converse of that of Archimedes.
The converse is presented in the common electric cell.
I like to look into your eyes when we converse.
So let us cease this talk of skull crushing and converse upon more pleasant subjects.
One who has just come from reading perhaps one of the best English books will find how many with whom he can converse about it?
Mahmud's policy was the converse of that recommended by Machiavelli, viz.
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Still he made no attempt to converse.
A sort of converse proposition is frequently useful, viz.
In Latin the converse was more nearly true.
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Here in dwells an old man with whom I would like to converse.
Burnet declares he had little Latin, but he was able to converse with the Dutch ambassador in that language.
Hess, from his work, arrived at the converse conclusion, that when a series of bases were used to neutralize a given amount of an acid, the heat of neutralization was always the same.
But the converse relation does not necessarily follow.
But somehow it makes more sense than doing the converse.
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No less close affinities exist between our Acts and the Acts of Thomas, Andrew and Philip. In the case of the Acts of Thomas the problem is complicated, sometimes the Acts of Peter seem dependent on the Acts of Thomas, and sometimes the converse.
The case has been the converse of that of the Romans; the latter had no fine pottery, and therefore employed glass as the material for vessels of an ornamental kind, for table services and the like.
Jeanette is the converse of jean, being a twill of "two ends up to one down"; the diagonal passes from selvage to selvage at a greater angle than 45 degrees and the warp makes the wearing surface.
In Florence in 1636 he saw Galileo, for whom he ever retained the warmest admiration, and spent eight months in daily converse with the members of a scientific circle in Paris, held together by Malin Mersenne (q.v.).
Intercommunication no doubt takes place; men working together in quarry, brickfield or barrow-run, and out of earshot of their guardians, may and do converse at times.
But the question is how the premises must be thought, and they must be thought in the converse way to produce a logical conclusion.
In 1910 Sheridan (8408) in Sheridan county, Douglas in Converse county and Lander in Fremont county were as important as some of the older towns of the southern part of the state.
For these epitaphs, with others of a humbler kind, were brought before St Elizabeth to be identified in her ecstatic converse with St Verena, her cousin St Ursula, and others.
But whereas Assyria takes the first place in the classical accounts to the exclusion of Babylonia, the decipherment of the inscriptions has proved that the converse was really the case, and that, with the exception of some seven or eight centuries, Assyria might be described as a province or dependency of Babylon.
After Fouquet's death (1680) Dauger and Fouquet's other (old-standing) valet La Riviere are put together, by Louvois's special orders, in one lower dungeon; Louvois evidently fears their knowledge of things heard from Fouquet, and he orders Lauzun (who had recently been allowed to converse freely with Fouquet) to be told that they are released.
For an achromatic dispersive lens the converse must be adopted.
This phenomenon was first described and explained by James Thomson, who also explained a phenomenon, the converse of this, called the " tears of strong wine."
Converse in 1889, opened in 1890, and in 1908 had 22 instructors and 355 students.
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This continuity of the down into the up stroke and the converse is greatly facilitated by the elastic ligaments at the root and in the FIG.
And if you shall say, ` It is possible,' why did the Teacher remain and converse with waking men for a whole year?
But if you were seen and taught by him for a single hour, and so became an apostle, then preach his words, expound his meaning, love his apostles, fight not with me who had converse with him.
Communication by gesture-signs, between persons unable to converse in vocal language, is an effective system of expression common to all mankind.
It was Forster who, when appealing to the government at the time of Gordon's danger at Khartum, spoke of Mr Gladstone as able "to persuade most people of most things, and himself of almost anything," and though the phrase was much resented by Mr Gladstone's entourage, the truth that underlay it may be taken as representing the very converse of his own character.
Before this stage the converse process begins, the reduced column of fresh water is no longer capable of balancing the sea water in the sand, inflow occurs at c and e, resulting finally in the well water becoming saline.
Into such blocks, charged with salt crystals and thoroughly dried, fresh water was then passed, and precisely the converse process took place.
The relation of submultiple is the converse of that of multiple; thus if a is I of b, then b is 5 times a.
The operation is the converse or repetition; it is usually called partition, as representing division into a number of equal shares.
Successive Division may be performed as the converse of successive multiplication.
The diagrams A and B below are the converse (with a slight alteration) of the corresponding diagrams 12d.
Such a transformation had not previously been observed, although the converse phenomenon, i.e.
The uneducated mass of mankind, he complains, either " seldom reason at all," or " put passion in the place of reason," or " for want of large, sound, round-about sense " they direct their minds only to one part of the evidence, "converse with one sort of men, read but one sort of books, and will not come in the hearing of but one sort of notions, and so carve out to themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world, where light shines, and, as they conclude, day blesses them; but the rest of the vast expansion they give up to night and darkness, and avoid coming near it."
One day, while thus occupied, her trance came upon her, and she heard a voice say, "Though shalt have no more converse with men, but with angels."
The conclusion is an artificial proposition which would be stated naturally in the converse.
But is there any known stage of the human intellect in which these divine adventures, and the metamorphoses of men into animals, trees, stars, and converse with the dead, and all else that puzzles us in the civilized mythologies, are regarded as possible incidents of daily human life?