Con vs Stain - What's the difference?
con | stain |
(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
A discoloured spot or area.
A blemish on one's character or reputation.
A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
To discolour something
To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
* Milton
To coat a surface with a stain
To treat a microscope specimen with a dye
To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between con and stain
is that con is to study, especially in order to gain knowledge of while stain is to discolour something.As nouns the difference between con and stain
is that con is a disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros) while stain is a discoloured spot or area.As a proper noun Con
is a male given name, a diminutive form of Conor or Cornelius.As an initialism CON
is Certificate of Need.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 ----stain
English
(wikipedia stain)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * Giemsa stain * Leishman stain * Romanowsky stain * Wright-Giemse stain * Wright's stainVerb
(en verb)- to stain the hand with dye
- armour stained with blood
- Of honour void, / Of innocence, of faith, of purity, / Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained .
- to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
- the stained glass used for church windows
- She stains the ripest virgins of her age.
- that did all other beasts in beauty stain
