Coned vs. Conned — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Coned and Conned
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Coned
Conical in shape
She wore a striped jacket with coned bra for the video
Conned
To study, peruse, or examine carefully.
Coned
Wound on a cone
A coned yarn
Conned
To learn or commit to memory.
Coned
The surface generated by a straight line, the generator, passing through a fixed point, the vertex, and moving along a fixed curve, the directrix.
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Conned
To direct the steering or course of (a vessel).
Coned
A right circular cone.
Conned
To swindle (a victim) by first winning the victim's confidence; dupe
A criminal who conned an unsuspecting tourist out of $5,000.
Coned
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.
Conned
To cause (someone) to do something by lying, misrepresentation, or trickery
My roommate conned me into washing the dishes.
Coned
Something having the shape of this figure
"the cone of illuminated drops spilling beneath a street lamp" (Anne Tyler).
Conned
Variant of con3.
Coned
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.
Conned
The area or structure on a vessel from which the vessel is conned.
Coned
A similar, spore-producing structure of club mosses, horsetails, and spikemosses.
Conned
The position or authority of the officer conning a vessel.
Coned
A reproductive structure resembling a cone, such as the female inflorescence of a hop plant or the woody female catkin of an alder.
Conned
A swindle.
Coned
(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.
Conned
Of, relating to, or involving a swindle or fraud
A con artist.
A con job.
Coned
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.
Conned
Simple past tense and past participle of con
Coned
To shape (something) like a cone or a segment of one.
Conned
Simple past tense and past participle of conn
Coned
Segregated or delineated by traffic cones
Coned
Shaped like a cone.
Coned
Simple past tense and past participle of cone
He coned the top of the pottery to make it look like a dunce cap.
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