If you gab, chat, and talk it up with someone, you have conversation, but if you're looking for input from each other as you talk, you confer, or consult, together. They had a family meeting to confer about a schedule for sharing the new laptop.
To bring together for comparison; to compare.
Verb
have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action"
Verb
present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone"
Adverb
compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text)
v. t.
To bring together for comparison; to compare.
v. t.
To grant as a possession; to bestow.
v. t.
To contribute; to conduce.
v. i.
To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to
deliberate.
Confer
If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion.2.
The public marks of honor and reward Conferred upon me.3.
The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union.
Confer
Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered.
You shall hear us confer of this.
To bring together for comparison; to compare.
To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.
Usage Examples
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Other Usage ExamplesRank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
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