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Recon vs Recond - What's the difference?

recon | recond |

As verbs the difference between recon and recond

is that recon is reconnoiter while recond is to put away, to set apart.

As a noun recon

is reconnaissance.

recon

English

(wikipedia recon)

Etymology 1

Contracted form of reconnaissance

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, US, military slang) reconnaissance.

    • Verb

  • (chiefly, US, military slang) reconnoiter.
    • Synonyms
    * recce (qualifier)

    Etymology 2

    Contracted form of recombination + -on

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.

    • Anagrams

    * *

    recond

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put away, to set apart
  • *1608 , John Wilson, English Martyrology , 89
  • *:St Ethelwold, King of the same Prouince]] and Martyr: who being wickedly slayne in the Ciuill warres among his owne subiects, and his body brought to the Church of Hexam... the same was with great solemnity & veneration honourably reconded in the said Church as beseemed so [[precious, pretious a treasure.
  • *1693 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 17, 657
  • *:A Ferment... somewhere reconded out of the Road of the circulating Blood, and there gradually maturated.

    • References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed. "recond, v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2009.