Con vs. Cone — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Con and Cone

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Con

In opposition or disagreement; against

Debated the issue pro and con.

Cone

A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex. A cone is formed by a set of line segments, half-lines, or lines connecting a common point, the apex, to all of the points on a base that is in a plane that does not contain the apex.

Con

An argument or opinion against something.

Cone

A solid or hollow object which tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point

A cone of acrylic yarn

Stalls selling paper cones full of fresh berries

Con

One who holds an opposing opinion or view.

Cone

The dry fruit of a conifer, typically tapering to a rounded end and formed of a tight array of overlapping scales on a central axis which separate to release the seeds

A cedar cone

Con

The area or structure on a vessel from which the vessel is conned.

Cone

One of two types of light-sensitive cell in the retina of the eye, responding mainly to bright light and responsible for sharpness of vision and colour perception.

Con

The position or authority of the officer conning a vessel.

Cone

Separate off or mark a road with traffic cones

Part of the road has been coned off

Con

A swindle.

Cone

The surface generated by a straight line, the generator, passing through a fixed point, the vertex, and moving along a fixed curve, the directrix.

Con

A convict.

Cone

A right circular cone.

Con

To study, peruse, or examine carefully.

Cone

The figure formed by a cone, bound or regarded as bound by its vertex and a plane section taken anywhere above or below the vertex.

Con

To learn or commit to memory.

Cone

Something having the shape of this figure

"the cone of illuminated drops spilling beneath a street lamp" (Anne Tyler).

Con

To direct the steering or course of (a vessel).

Cone

A unisexual reproductive structure of most gymnospermous plants, such as conifers and cycads, typically consisting of a central axis around which there are scaly, overlapping, spirally arranged sporophylls that bear either pollen-containing structures or ovules.

Con

To swindle (a victim) by first winning the victim's confidence; dupe

A criminal who conned an unsuspecting tourist out of $5,000.

Cone

A similar, spore-producing structure of club mosses, horsetails, and spikemosses.

Con

To cause (someone) to do something by lying, misrepresentation, or trickery

My roommate conned me into washing the dishes.

Cone

A reproductive structure resembling a cone, such as the female inflorescence of a hop plant or the woody female catkin of an alder.

Con

Of, relating to, or involving a swindle or fraud

A con artist.

A con job.

Cone

(Physiology) One of the photoreceptors in the retina of the eye that is responsible for daylight and color vision. These photoreceptors are most densely concentrated in the fovea centralis, creating the area of greatest visual acuity. Also called cone cell.

Con

(rare) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.

Cone

Any of various gastropod mollusks of the family Conidae of tropical and subtropical seas that have a conical, often vividly marked shell and that inject their prey with poisonous toxins, which can be fatal to humans. Also called cone shell.

Con

To know; understand; acknowledge.

Cone

To shape (something) like a cone or a segment of one.

Con

To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.

Cone

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line. Category:en:Surfaces

Con

A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).

Pros and cons

Cone

(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.

Con

(slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.

Cone

(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.

Con

(informal) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.

Cone

Anything shaped like a cone.

Con

(informal) An organized gathering, such as a convention, conference, or congress.

Cone

The fruit of a conifer.

Con

(informal) The conversion of part of a building.

We're getting a loft con done next year.

Cone

A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.

Con

Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.

Cone

An ice cream cone.

Con

Squirrel, particularly the red squirrel.

Cone

A traffic cone

Con

A squirrel's nest.

Cone

A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.

Con

(abbreviation) A political conservative.

Own the cons

Cone

(anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.

Con

Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; - The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

Cone

(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.

Con

To know; to understand; to acknowledge.

Of muses, Hobbinol, I con no skill.

They say they con to heaven the highway.

Cone

(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.

Con

To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.

Fixedly did lookUpon the muddy waters which he connedAs if he had been reading in a book.

I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson.

Cone

(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.

Con

To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

Cone

(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)

Con

An argument opposed to a proposal

Cone

(category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)

A cone is an object (the apex) and a natural transformation from a constant functor (whose image is the apex of the cone and its identity morphism) to a diagram functor. Its components are projections from the apex to the objects of the diagram and it has a “naturality triangle” for each morphism in the diagram. (A “naturality triangle” is just a naturality square which is degenerate at its apex side.)

Con

A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

Cone

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

Con

A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Cone

A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.

Con

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

Cone

(transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.

Con

Commit to memory; learn by heart;

Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?

Cone

(intransitive) To form a cone shape.

Con

On the negative side;

Much was written pro and con

Cone

(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.

Cone

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.

Cone

Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.

Now had Night measured with her shadowy coneHalf way up hill this vast sublunar vault.

Cone

The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.