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Versus is also the name of a cult Japanese action film. See Versus (Film).

Versus is a Star Wars fanfilm made by Nicolas Santini. See Versus (Fanfilm).

The Versus programming language is a scripting language used with Visual IRC.

For information on the band, see Versus (band).

Versus will be the new name of the OLN cable television network starting about September 2006.

Versus (Latin: against, and often written in Italics) is used in legal and general language to mean "against" or "opposed to". The abbreviations "v.", "vs." or "vs" are also used, though in the legal context, "v." is used in case names while "vs." is used in all other situations. (For example: "The case of McCulloch v. Maryland raised the issue of federal vs. state power.") Ongoing events • 2005 Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes • 2005 Maharashtra floods • 2005 Gujarat Flood • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of fans, usually failing to achieve considerable success outside that group. ... Action movies usually involve a fairly straightforward story of good guys versus bad guys, where most disputes are resolved by using physical force. ... Versus is a 2000 Japanese action/horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. ... Versus is a scripting language originally developed for the IRC client Bisual IRC, and currently used with Visual IRC. It is similar in many ways to the scripting languages used by ircII and mIRC, as well as Tcl. ... Scripting languages (commonly called scripting programming languages or script languages) are computer programming languages initially used only for simple, repeated actions. ... Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. ... Versus is a New York City band which was formed in 1990 by Richard Baluyut, Fontaine Toups and Robert Hale. ... OLN (formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network until July 2005) is a cable television channel owned by Comcast. ... It has been suggested that History of the Latin language be merged into this article or section. ... This page lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. ... Italic can refer to: Italic languages Italic scripts Italic means Of or from Italy; the usage is most commonly restricted to talking about the people and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire. ...

Versus: Quaderni di studi semiotici (often called VS in Italian academic jargon) is an influential semiotic journal in Italy. Founded by Umberto Eco et al. in 1971, it has been an important confrontation space for a large number of scholars of several fields coping with signs and signification. Its foundation and activities have contributed to consolidate the perception of semiotics as an academic field in itself both in Italy and in Europe. Semiotics (also spelled Semeiotics) is the study of signs and sign systems. ... A journal (through French from late Latin diurnalis, daily) is a daily record of events or business. ... Photo of Umberto Eco by Robert Birnbaum Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose and his many essays. ...

Versus has published original articles by most influential European semioticians, including Umberto Eco, A.J. Greimas, Jean-Marie Floch, Paolo Fabbri, Jacques Fontanille, Claude Zilberberg, Ugo Volli, Patrizia Violi. At the same time, almost every issue cointains also articles by younger, less famous semioticians dealing with new research perspectives in semiotics. Photo of Umberto Eco by Robert Birnbaum Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose and his many essays. ... Algirdas Julius Greimas, or Algirdas Julien Greimas (born March 9, 1917 in Tula, died 1992 in Paris), was a linguist who contributed to the theory of semiotics, and also researched Lithuanian mythology. ...

Each issue is focused on a specific argument, like iconism, translation and history of sign or on studies regarding a specific author (like Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Sanders Peirce, Michel Bréal). Louis Hjelmslev (October 3, 1899 - May 30, 1965) was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Danish School in linguistics. ... Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American logician, philosopher, scientist, and mathematician. ...

Versus has its indexes and some articles available online [1]