Con vs En - What's the difference?
con | en |
(rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
* Wordsworth
* Burke
* 1963 , D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories :
(rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
* 1579 , , Iune:
to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros ).
(slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
(slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
(nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through a channel etc. (rather than steer a compass direction)
(nautical) The navigational direction of a ship
English
(typography) A unit of measurement equal to half of an em (half of the height of the type in use).
As a noun con
is cone.As a pronoun en is
he, him.con
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) connen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(conn)- Fixedly did look / Upon the muddy waters which he conned / As if he had been reading in a book.
- I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson.
- The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.''
- Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- pros and cons
Synonyms
* disadvantageAntonyms
* proEtymology 3
Shortened from (convict).Etymology 4
From (con trick), shortened from (confidence trick).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(conn)Synonyms
* (to be conned) be sold a pupEtymology 5
From earlier (cond), from (etyl) conduen, from (etyl) conduire, from (etyl) .Verb
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* conning tower * take the conEtymology 6
or (conference).See also
* cone * mod consAnagrams
* English three-letter words ----en
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation.Noun
(head)Etymology 2
The name of the letter comes from (etyl) en. The typographic sense dates to 1793.Noun
(en noun)- The ems and ens at the beginnings and ends.