VICE VERSA | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of vice versa in English vice versaadverb uk /ˌvaɪs ˈvɜː.sə/ us /ˌvaɪ.sə ˈvɝː.sə/ Add to word list Add to word list C1 used to say that what you have just said is also true in the opposite order: He doesn't trust her, and vice versa (= she also doesn't trust him).

• If they go away, we have their children and vice versa.
• He refuses to believe anything they say and vice versa.
• The police maintain she is lying and vice versa.
• She's very angry with him and vice versa.

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• around
• back end
• be a chapter of accidents idiom
• birth order
• chapter
• cycle
• in chronological order
• inconsecutive
• inline
• linear
• linearity
• linearly
• parade
• penultimate
• penultimately
• precedence
• priority
• procession
• string

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vice versa | American Dictionary

vice versaadverb us /vɑɪs ˈvɜr·sə, ˌvɑɪ·sə ˈvɜr-/ Add to word list Add to word list (of an opposite) being also true: With this software, descriptions can replace names and vice versa. (Definition of vice versa from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of vice versa

vice versa A moral claim is either true or false, so that all moral truths are moral claims but not vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus Plant species were sown from right to left and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, it would not be quite correct to say that the intrusive schwa conditions the degemination or vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus The income redistribution ex post will be from high rental income to low wage income, and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus Extrapolation of results from either specialist psychiatric or community setting to primary care (or vice versa) may be misleading. From the Cambridge English Corpus If the examples share the same qualities, then they must possess contrasting defects, and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus This is because the functionality of deferred components may contain defined types, and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus Every standard relation is a variant function, and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus When f is representable, any base change of f to a map of schemes will be a monomorphism in the usual sense, and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus It may well be that measures of preference can predict resistance to change, and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus Ideally, we would like to observe language impairment with a retention of the ability to carry out complex mathematical operations, and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus In this last must lie the fundamental reason for the socialists' effortless cooperation with the extreme conservatives and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus Any formal marker can enable any mode of functional interpretation, and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus Each "pure" color and "pure" pitch can be associated with a single wavelength, and it seems natural to associate colors with pitches and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus The greater the number of interactions, the simpler is the required initial object and vice versa. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of vice versa These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of vice versa?

Translations of vice versa

in Chinese (Traditional) 反過來也一樣，反之亦然… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 反过来也一样，反之亦然… See more in Spanish vice versa, viceversa… See more in Portuguese vice-versa… See more in Marathi in Turkish in French in Japanese in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish आपण जे म्हटलं आहे ते क्रम बदलून उलटपक्षी सुद्धा सत्य आहे… See more aksine, tersine, ya da aksine… See more vice versa… See more 反対（はんたい）に… See more omgekeerd… See more நீங்கள் இப்போது சொன்னதும் எதிர் வரிசையில் உண்மை என்று சொல்வார்கள்.… See more विपरीत क्रम से, इसके विपरीत… See more ઊલટી રીતે, તેનાથી ઊલટું, વિપરીત… See more omvendt, vice versa… See more vice versa… See more begitu juga sebaliknya… See more umgekehrt… See more vice versa, omvendt, (og) omvendt… See more اور اس کے برعکس… See more навпаки… See more మీరు ఇప్పుడు చెప్పినది వ్యతిరేక క్రమంలో కూడా నిజమని చెప్పడానికి వాడేది… See more বিপরীতভাবে… See more naopak… See more sebaliknya… See more ในทางกลับกัน… See more ngược lại… See more na odwrót, vice versa, (i) odwrotnie… See more Need a translator?

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