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versus
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Versus \Ver"sus\, prep. [L., toward, turned in the direction of, from vertere, versum, to turn. See Verse .] Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.
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Versus is the debut full-length studio album by the British rock band Little Ghost . Released on 14 September 2015, the album was self-produced and self-released by the band exclusively via their Bandcamp page and a limited run of compact disks . According ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., in legal case names, denoting action of one party against another, from Latin versus "turned toward or against," from past participle of vertere (frequentative versare ) "to turn, turn back, be turned, convert, transform, translate, be changed," ...
Usage examples of versus.
Consider a simple set of categories: appendicitis versus no-appendicitis.
Nam praesidio e regione castrorum relicto et parva manu Metiosedum versus missa, quae tantum progrediatur, quantum naves processissent, reliquas copias contra Labienum duxerunt.
Prosecutor Plake moved to have the court take up the case of the Legion versus Dragoneer Relkin of the 109th Marneri.
It was a pretty even match between them, the Atlantic Avenue champ versus the boy who made his spending money on the bum by taking on the local stars in strange smalltown poolrooms, but Prew had the edge, a very slight one.
More Americans voted to retain their commander in chief in the middle of a war with Iraq than voted to reanoint a crusader in chief in the war of good versus evil.
That way was to play two strange and singular personalities each against the other: Alban Sark versus Tanjor Zune.
PRACTICAL OCCULTISM OCCULTISM VERSUS THE OCCULT ARTS THE BLESSINGS OF PUBLICITY POINT LOMA EDITION The Aryan Theosophical Press Point Loma, California 1910 See Book List at the end of this volume for the other numbers of this Series and also for other Theosophical literature.
Stephanie had told him to let go, to trust in his own instincts not only for tradecraft, but for his sense of right versus wrong.
Stolti clothing for two Warreners versus the whole of a world in his hand, to create and reshape in his vision .
Then I calculated my wattages versus my caloric intake, so I knew precisely how much to eat each day, how many calories to burn, so that the amount coming in would be less than my output, and I would lose weight.
The Arthurian saga has never been a simple tale of good versus evil, but of the impossible quest within each person to live a good, fair, and just life -- and, by extension, to construct a good, fair, and just society in which to do it.
The master binarism around which all the other terms turn, and the only one which regularly shifts valences, is that of homosexuality versus heterosexuality.
Klittichom with his Storm Princess versus Boolean with his, if he can ever find her or she him.
What I mean to say is, Doctor, please tell me in all sincerity, as one human being to another, what is your opinion of chemical versus sanitarium therapy?
This marriage between postmodernism and fundamentalism is certainly an odd coupling considering that postmodernist and fundamentalist discourses stand in most respects in polar opposition: hybridity versus purity, difference versus identity, mobility versus stasis.