Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 120
Convenable (a.) Capable of being convened or assembled.
Convenable (a.) Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies.
Convenance (n.) That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.
Convened (imp. & p. p.) of Convene.
Convenong (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convene.
Convene (v. i.) To come together; to meet; to unite. [R.]
In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. -- Sir I. Newton.
Convene (v. i.) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
Convene (v. t.) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
Convene (v. t.) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
Convener (n.) One who convenes or meets with others.
Convener (n.) One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
Convenience (n.) [U] 方便；合宜；[C] 便利設施；方便的用具；[U] 舒適，自在；實利；[C]【英】【婉】（公共）廁所 Alt. of Conveniency.
Conveniency (n.) The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.
Conveniency (n.) Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation.
Conveniency (n.) That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation.
Conveniency (n.) A convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one's convenience.
Convenience (n.) The state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience".
Convenience (n.) The quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan" [ant: {inconvenience}].
Convenience (n.) A toilet that is available to the public [syn: {public toilet}, {comfort station}, {public convenience}, {convenience}, {public lavatory}, {restroom}, {toilet facility}, {wash room}].
Convenience (n.) A device or control that is very useful for a particular job [syn: {appliance}, {contraption}, {contrivance}, {convenience}, {gadget}, {gizmo}, {gismo}, {widget}].
Convenient (a.) [（+for/ to）] 合宜的；方便的；便利的；[（+for/to）] 近而方便的 Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate. [Archaic]
Convenient (a.) Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.
Convenient (a.) Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season.
Convenient (a.) Near at hand; easy of access. [Colloq.]
Convenient (a.) Suited to your comfort or purpose or needs; "a convenient excuse for not going" [ant: {inconvenient}].
Convenient (a.) Large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense); "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for conventions" [syn: {commodious}, {convenient}] [ant: {incommodious}].
Conveniently (adv.) 便利地；合宜地 In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
Conveniently (adv.) In a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located" [syn: {handily}, {conveniently}] [ant: {inconveniently}].
Convent (n.) A coming together; a meeting. [Obs.]
A usual ceremony at their [the witches] convents or meetings. -- B. Jonson.
Convent (n.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
One of our convent, and his [the duke's] confessor. -- Shak.
Convent (n.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent. -- Addison.
Syn: Nunnery; monastery; abbey. See Cloister.
Convent (v. i.) To meet together; to concur. [obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Convent (v. i.) To be convenient; to serve. [Obs.]
When that is known and golden time convents. --Shak.
Convent (n.) A religious residence especially for nuns.
Convent (n.) A community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together.
Convent (v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Convent (n.) 修女團；女修道院 [C] A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
Conventical (a.) Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. "Conventical wages." -- Sterne.
{Conventical prior}. See {Prior}.
Conventicle (n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.
They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever. -- Ayliffe.
Conventicle (n.) An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.
The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution. -- Hammond.
A sort of men who . . . attend its [the curch of England's] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. -- Swift.
Conventicle (n.) A secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship.
Conventicle (n.) A building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) [syn: {conventicle}, {meetinghouse}]
Conventicler (n.) One who supports or frequents conventicles.
Conventicling (a.) Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.
Convention (n.) 會議，大會；全體與會者 [C]；召集，集合 [U] The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
Convention (n.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
Convention (n.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
Convention (n.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.
Convention (n.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
Convention (n.) (Meeting) (C1) [ C ] 大會；會議 A large formal meeting of people who do a particular job or have a similar interest, or a large meeting for a political party.
// The national Democratic convention.
// Where are they holding their party convention?
Convention (n.) (Custom) (C1) [ C or U ] 傳統；（尤指社會）習俗；常規；慣例 A usual or accepted way of behaving, especially in social situations, often following an old way of thinking or a custom in one particular society.
// They defied/ flouted/ broke with convention by giving up their jobs and becoming self-sufficient.
// Convention dictates that it is the man who asks the woman to marry him and not the other way round.
// In many countries it is the/ a convention to wear black at funerals.
Convention (n.) (Custom) [ C ] （藝術、寫作上的）傳統手法 A common way of showing something in art or writing.
// An artistic convention.
Convention (n.) (Agreement) [ C ] 公約；協定 A formal agreement between country leaders, politicians, and states on a matter that involves them all.
// The Geneva Convention.
// A convention on human rights.
Conventional (a.) 習慣的，慣例的；普通的；常見的；（武器）傳統式的，非核的 Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. -- Sir M. Hale.
Conventional (a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." -- Whewell.
The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. -- Motley.
The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. -- Latham.
Compare: Decorum
Decorum (n.) 端莊，彬彬有禮；合宜 [U]；禮節，禮儀 [P] Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.
‘You exhibit remarkable modesty and decorum.’
Decorum (n.) Etiquette.
‘He had no idea of funeral decorum.’
Decorum (n.) (Usually Decorums) (Archaic) A particular requirement of good taste and propriety.
‘Eighteenth-century novelists, such as William Goodall in his Adventures of Captain Greenland, frequently invoked Shakespeare as a precursor because he was felt to break literary decorums in much the same way as did the new form.’
Decorum (n.) (Aarchaic) Suitability to the requirements of a person, rank, or occasion.
Conventional (a.) (Fine Arts) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
Conventional (a.) (Fine Arts.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. {Conventionalize}, v. t.
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Conventional (a.) Following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant: {unconventional}].
Conventional (a.) Conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: {conventional}, {established}].
Conventional (a.) (Weapons) Using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [ant: {atomic}, {nuclear}].
Conventional (a.) Unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: {unconventional}].
Conventional (a.) Represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: {conventional}, {formal}, {schematic}].
Conventional (a.) In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake".
Conventional (a.) Rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: {ceremonious}, {conventional}].
Conventional (a.) (B2) 傳統的；常規的；普通的 Traditional and ordinary.
// Conventional behaviour/ attitudes/ clothes.
// Conventional medicine/ farming.
// A conventional wedding.
// (Disapproving) I find his art dull and conventional.
Opposite: Unconventional
Unconventional (a.) (C1) 不因循守舊的；不同尋常的 Different from what is usual or from the way most people do things.
// An unconventional childhood/ lifestyle/ marriage.
Conventional (a.) （武器、戰爭）傳統式的 Used to refer to weapons that are not nuclear, or to methods of fighting a war that do not involve nuclear weapons.
// Conventional weapons/ bombs.
Conventionalism (n.) That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
Conventionalism (n.) The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.
Conventionalist (n.) One who adheres to a convention or treaty.
Conventionalist (n.) One who is governed by conventionalism.
Conventionalities (n. pl. ) of Conventionality
Conventionality (n.) The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
Conventionalization (n.) The act of making conventional.
Conventionalization (n.) The state of being conventional.
Conventionalized (imp. & p. p.) of Conventionalizw
Conventionalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conventionalizw
Conventionalizw (v. t.) To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.
Conventionalizw (v. t.) To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.
Conventionalizw (v. t.) To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.
Conventionalize (v. i.) To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.
Conventionalily (adv.) In a conventional manner.
Conventionary (a.) Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants.
Conventioner (n.) One who belongs to a convention or assembly.
Conventionist (n.) One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
Conventual (a.) Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.
Conventual (n.) One who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse.
Converged (imp. & p. p.) of Converge
Converging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Converge
Converge (v. i.) To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
Converge (v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.
Convergence (n.) Alt. of Convergency
Convergency (n.) The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point.
Convergent (a.) tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
Converging (a.) Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.
Conversable (a.) Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.
Conversableness (n.) The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.
Conversably (adv.) In a conversable manner.
Conversance (n.) The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.
Conversancy (n.) Conversance
Conversant (a.) [F] 熟悉的；精通的 [（+with/ in）]；熟識的；親近的 [（+with/ in/ among）] Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. -- Dryden.
Conversant (a.) Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in.
Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. -- Dryden.
He uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. -- Pope.
Conversant only with the ways of men. -- Cowper.
Conversant (a.) Concerned; occupied.
Education . . . is conversant about children. -- W. Wotton.
Conversant (n.) One who converses with another; a convenser. [R.]
Conversant (a.) (Usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly; "conversant with business trends"; "familiar with the complex machinery"; "he was familiar with those roads" [syn: conversant(p), familiar(p)].
Conversant (n.) One who is in the habit of being in a particular place, is said to be conversant there. Barnes, 162.
Conversant (a.) (Formal) Be conversant with sth: 精通的; 熟悉的 To be familiar with, and have knowledge or experience of the facts or rules of something.
// I'm not conversant with the rules of chess.
Conversantly (adv.) In a familiar manner.
Conversantly (adv.) In the manner of one who has knowledge or experience (as of a subject or a thing).
Conversation (n.) 會話，談話；非正式會談 [U] [C] [（+with）]； 談話技巧，談吐 [U] General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic]
Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. -- Philip. i. 27.
Conversation (n.) Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. "Conversation with the best company." -- Dryden.
I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. -- Bacon.
Conversation (n.) Commerce; intercourse; traffic. [Obs.]
All traffic and mutual conversation. -- Hakluyt.
Conversation (n.) Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
The influence exercised by his [Johnson's] conversation was altogether without a parallel. -- Macaulay.
Conversation (n.) Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
Syn: Intercourse; communion; commerce; familiarity; discourse; dialogue; colloquy; talk; chat.
Usage: Conversation, Talk. There is a looser sense of these words, in which they are synonymous; there is a stricter sense, in which they differ. Talk is usually broken, familiar, and versatile. Conversation is more continuous and sustained, and turns ordinarily upon topics or higher interest. Children talk to their parents or to their companions; men converse together in mixed assemblies. Dr. Johnson once remarked, of an evening spent in society, that there had been a great deal of talk, but no conversation.
Conversation (n.) The use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
Conversation () Generally the goings out and in of social intercourse (Eph. 2:3; 4:22; R.V., "manner of life"); one's deportment or course of life. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of verbal communication from one to another (Ps. 50:23; Heb. 13:5). In Phil. 1:27 and 3:20, a different Greek word is used. It there means one's relations to a community as a citizen, i.e., citizenship.
Conversation (n.) A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Conversation (n.) [ C or U ] (A1) (a) 交談，談話，對話 Talk between two or more people in which thoughts, feelings, and ideas are expressed, questions are asked and answered, or news and information is exchanged.
// She had a strange conversation with the man who moved in upstairs.
// It's impossible to hold/carry on a conversation with all this noise going on!
// I struck up (= started) an interesting conversation with your uncle.
// Because of television, many people have lost the art of conversation (= talking to each other).
// Whenever I'm in a social situation with my boss, we seem to run out of conversation (= things to say to each other) after two minutes!
Idiom:
Make conversation 沒話找話，說應酬話 To say things to someone who you do not know well, in order to be polite.
// I was just trying to make conversation.
Conversational (a.) 會話的，對話的，健談的 Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.
Conversational (a.) 交談的；談話式的；口語的 Relating to or like a conversation.
// A conversational style of writing.
// He seems to lack basic conversational skills.
Conversational Commerce (n.) [U] Direct conversations between people and companies or services using technology such as apps.
Echo is part of the new wave of conversational commerce technologies, where the use of messaging, digital assistants, chat apps, or question-and-answer dialogue makes it possible for people to simply ask for what they need.
Conversationalist (n.) A conversationist.
Conversationalist (n.) [ C ] 能聊的人，健談的人 Someone who enjoys or is good at talking with people.
Conversationed (a.) Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved.
Conversationism (n.) A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism.
Conversationist (n.) One who converses much, or who excels in conversation.
Conversationist (n.) 交談者；健談者 Someone skilled at conversation.
Conversative (a.) Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative.
Conversazioni (n. pl. ) of Conversazi-one
Conversazi-one (n.) A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects.
Conversed (imp. & p. p.) of Converse.
Conversing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Converse.
Converse (v. i.) 交談，談話，認識 To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. -- Thomson.
Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions. -- Sir W. Scott.
But to converse with heaven This is not easy. -- Wordsworth.
Converse (v. i.) To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.
Companions That do converse and waste the time together. -- Shak.
We had conversed so often on that subject. -- Dryden.
Converse (v. i.) To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.
According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety. -- Locke.
Syn: To associate; commune; discourse; talk; chat.
Converse (n.) 相反的事物，倒，逆向 Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association. -- Glanvill.
'T is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. -- Byron.
Converse (n.) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
Formed by thy converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. -- Pope.
Converse (a.) 相反的，逆向的，顛倒的 Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.