Cops vs Cons - What's the difference?
cops | cons |
(slang) ; Police officers.
* 1986 , Liam Sternberg (performed by The Bangles), Walk Like an Egyptian
The police, considered as a group entity.
* 1906 ,
(cop)
(UK, dialect) The connecting crook of a harrow.
* 1807 , The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry
(computing) A data structure in LISP that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
(computing) To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
(con)
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As nouns the difference between cops and cons
is that cops is while cons is or cons can be (computing) a data structure in lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.As a verb cons is
(computing) to obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending or cons can be (con).cops
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(head)- All the cops in the donut shops say, "Way-oh-way-oh-way-ooo-aaa-ooo"
- "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Noun
- It is almost needless to say, that the true point of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops
Anagrams
* ----cons
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(head)Etymology 2
Abbreviation of construct .Noun
(conses)Synonyms
* cons cellVerb
(es)- In addition to specifying the whole list at once using square brackets and commas, you can build them up piece by piece using the (:) operator. This process is often referred to as consing.