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Cajole vs Cone - What's the difference?

cajole | cone |

As verbs the difference between cajole and cone

is that cajole is to persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax while cone is to fashion into the shape of a cone.

As a noun cone is

a surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

cajole

English

Verb

  • (transitive, and, intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.
  • * 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 12:
  • Then he cajoled with his brother, and persuaded him what service he had done him.
  • * 1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 27:
  • If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish?
  • * 1894 , , Only An Irish Boy , ch. 19:
  • He had tried bullying, and without success. He would try cajoling and temptation.
  • * 1898 , , The Battle Of The Strong , ch. 37:
  • [W]ith eloquent arts he had cajoled a young girl into a secret marriage.
  • * 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 8:
  • Schulman, general manager of the "G. F. C.," had been sending out messengers to hunt for him, and finally had got him in his office, arguing and pleading, cajoling and denouncing him by turns.
  • * 2010 August 4, Michael Scherer, " NonSTARTer? Obama's Troubled Nuclear Treaty," Time :
  • For weeks, the White House, the Pentagon and Senate Democrats have been working overtime to cajole , convince and placate Republicans.

    Synonyms

    * entice, inveigle, wheedle

    cone

    English

    (wikipedia cone)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
  • (label) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
  • (label) 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.
  • Anything shaped like a cone.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
  • The fruit of a conifer.
  • An ice cream cone.
  • A traffic 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.
  • Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
  • (label) The bowl piece on a bong.
  • (label) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
  • (label) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
  • (label) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
  • (label) Given a diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a ''cone'' consists of an object ''N'' of ''C'', together with a family of morphisms ψ''X'' : ''N'' → ''F''(''X'') indexed by all of the objects of ''J'', such that for every morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' in ''J'', F(f) \circ \psi_X = \psi_Y . Then ''N'' is the ''vertex'' of the ''cone'', whose ''sides'' are all the ψ''X'' indexed by Ob(''J'') and whose ''base'' is ''F''. The ''cone'' is said to be "from ''N'' to ''F''" and can be denoted as (''N , ψ).
  • «Let J'' be an index category which has an initial object ''I''. Let ''F'' be a diagram of type ''J'' in ''C''. Then category ''C'' contains a cone from ''F''(''I'') to ''F
    «If category C'' has a cone from ''N'' to ''F'' and a morphism from ''M'' to ''N'', then category ''C'' also has a cone from ''M'' to ''F
  • A shell of the genus Conus , having a conical form.
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (geometry) conical surface * (ice cream cone) cornet, ice cream cone

    Derived terms

    {{der3, coneflower , conepiece , conic , conic section , ice cream cone , nose cone , traffic cone}}

    See also

    * quean * queen

    Verb

  • (label) To fashion into the shape of a .
  • (label) To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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