Con vs Tract - What's the difference?
con | tract |
(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
An area or expanse.
* Milton
* Addison
A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract .
A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
* Jonathan Swift
A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
* Milton
* 1843 ,
Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
(obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
(obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
(obsolete) Track; trace.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
(obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
(obsolete) To draw out; to protract.
As nouns the difference between con and tract
is that con is cone while tract is an area or expanse.As a verb tract is
(obsolete) to pursue, follow; to track.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 ----tract
English
Etymology 1
From tractus, the perfect passive participle of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- an unexplored tract of sea
- the deep tract of hell
- a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth
- The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared.
- improved by tract of time
- Nay, in another case of litigation, the unjust Standard bearer, for his own profit, asserting that the cause belonged not to St. Edmund’s Court, but to his in , involved us in travellings and innumerable expenses, vexing the servants of St. Edmund for a long tract of time
- the tract of speech
- (Older)
- The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.
- (Dryden)
- Efface all tract of its traduction.
- But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From tractus , the participle stem of (etyl) trahere.Verb
(en verb)- Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract ?
- (Ben Jonson)
