versus en · ADP · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ˈvɪsəs/ Tamil Nadu
- /ˈvɝs/ (General-American, proscribed)
- /ˈvɝsəz/ (General-American)
- /ˈvɜːsɪz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈvɜːsəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈvɜ(r)səs/ (South-Asia)
- /ˈvɝsəs/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Middle English versus, borrowed from Latin versus (“facing”), past participle of vertere (“to turn, change, overthrow, destroy”).
Meanings
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Against; in opposition to.
It is the Packers versus the Steelers in the Super Bowl.
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Compared with, as opposed to.
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.
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times: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.
2005, Robert E. Weiss, Modeling Longitudinal Data, Springer, →ISBN, page 104:
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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.
- Interacting with, especially to record reactions
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Mashed up with.
Kiss Me Thru The Phone vs. Last Friday Night
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Indicating one group or artist remixing another.
The Auteurs vs. μ-Ziq
Deriveds
us versus them · player versus environment · punctus versus · nature versus nurture · offer versus serve · man versus time · player versus player · graft-versus-host disease · save versus
Relateds
subvert · convert · invert · vertex · verse · evert
Synonyms
Translations (100)
cmn 與 /与 (compared with) · cy yn erbyn (compared with) · sh nasprotiv (in opposition to) · pt contra (compared with) · no versus (in opposition to) · ms lawan (in opposition to) · bg срещу (in opposition to) · fi versus (compared with) · be су́праць (in opposition to) · de contra (in opposition to) · vi và (compared with) · ar عَلَى اَلْعَكْس (compared with) · ga in aghaidh (in opposition to) · cs oproti (in opposition to) · sh protiv (in opposition to) · ko 대 (in opposition to) · el rest (compared with) · hu szemben azzal (compared with) · cs srovnej s (compared with) · vi đối đầu (in opposition to) · bo ཁ་གཏད་དུ (in opposition to) · nl tegen (in opposition to) · ko 비하다 (compared with) · ru по сравне́нию с (compared with) · da mod (compared with) · de gegenüber (compared with) · ka შედარებით (compared with) · cmn 比……相比之下 (compared with) · ar ضِِدَّ (compared with) · fi verrattuna siihen, että (compared with) · fr face à (in opposition to) · da over for (compared with) · pt contra (in opposition to) · hu (ezzel) szemben (compared with) · eo kontraŭ (in opposition to) · vi đối (in opposition to) · he לעומת (compared with) · ca en contra (in opposition to) · is á móti (in opposition to) · yue 對 /对 (in opposition to) · la contrā (in opposition to) · sl proti (in opposition to) · pl versus (in opposition to) · cmn 對 /对 (in opposition to) · fi vastaan (in opposition to) · it contro (in opposition to) · ja バーサス (in opposition to) · sv mot (compared with) · de im Gegensatz zu (in opposition to) · el βέρσους (in opposition to) · ar فِي مُقَابِل (in opposition to) · ro contra (in opposition to) · hu kontra (in opposition to) · hu ha (compared with) · vi đấu với (in opposition to) · ja 対 (in opposition to) · ca enfront de (in opposition to) · ur بمقابلہ (in opposition to) · ka წინააღმდეგ (in opposition to) · pt vérsus (in opposition to) · es contra (in opposition to) · km ទល់នឹង (in opposition to) · ur مقابلہ (compared with) · hy ընդդեմ (in opposition to) · de siehe auch (compared with) · ru про́тив (in opposition to) · fr versus (in opposition to) · bg в сравне́ние с (compared with) · hu hogy… (compared with) · cs versus (in opposition to) · bo གཞན་ལས (compared with) · lv salīdzinot ar (compared with) · bo འགལ་ཟླར (in opposition to) · io kontre (in opposition to) · es en vez de (in opposition to) · vi kiện (in opposition to) · hy դեմ (in opposition to) · sv mot (in opposition to) · ro împotriva (in opposition to) · pl kontra (in opposition to) · ru в сравне́нии с (compared with) · he נֶגֶד (in opposition to) · de vergleiche (compared with) · fi versus (in opposition to) · cmn 比……相對 /比……相对 (compared with) · pl a (compared with) · fr contre (in opposition to) · ar ضِِدَّ (in opposition to) · cy yn erbyn (in opposition to) · sv kontra (in opposition to) · ca en comparació amb (compared with) · de gegen (in opposition to) · el κατά (in opposition to) · da mod (in opposition to) · sv jämfört (compared with) · eo kontraŭ (compared with) · cmn 和 (compared with) · de vgl. (compared with) · is móti (in opposition to) · cmn 比……相对 (compared with)