con – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: argument,
statement,
captive,
prisoner,
cheat,
rig,
swindle,
rip off,
chisel,
hit the books,
study
con
adv.
against (a proposition, opinion, etc.)
v.
learn by heart, memorize; cheat, deceive
n.
deceit, swindle, fraud; convict, inmate
Con
Con may refer to:
- Confidence trick, also known as con, scam, or flim flam
- Con (name)
- Conn (nautical), also spelled con, the command of movement of a ship at sea
- Consider (MUD), the ability to evaluate an opponent in MUDs
- Consolidated Edison, also Con Edison
- Contact lens, in Hong Kong English
- Contra as in the original Latin phrase of pros and cons pro et contra
- Convention (meeting)
- Convict, as in ex-con, a person who has been convicted of a crime
- Convicted felon, a person who has been convicted of a felony crime in a court of law
- In Italian musical terms used in English, it means "with" (con means "with" in both Italian and Spanish as the word derives from Latin)
con
Noun
1. an argument opposed to a proposal
(antonym) pro
(hypernym) argument, statement
2. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
(synonym) convict, inmate, jailbird, gaolbird
(hypernym) prisoner, captive
(hyponym) lifer
3. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
(synonym) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
(hypernym) swindle, cheat, rig
(hyponym) sting operation
(derivation) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp
Verb
1. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
(synonym) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp
(hypernym) cheat, rip off, chisel
(hyponym) short-change, short
(derivation) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
2. commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"
(synonym) memorize, memorise, learn
(hypernym) study, hit the books
(hyponym) understudy, alternate
Adverb
1. on the negative side; "much was written pro and con"
(synonym) in opposition
(antonym) pro
con
adj.
bloody (Slang); stupid (Slang)
con
nm.
cunt (slang), idiot (Slang)
con
prep.
with, and; by; by way of; in, at, on
