Setup vs Con - What's the difference?
setup | con |
Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
An act to frame someone; an effort or arrangement aimed at placing the blame on somebody.
(computing) An installer.
(operations) The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
(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
As nouns the difference between setup and con
is that setup is equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus while con is a disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).As verbs the difference between setup and con
is that setup is misspelling of lang=en while con is to study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.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.setup
English
Alternative forms
* set-upNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia setup)- The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
- The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
- Trust me, that was a setup !
- After inserting the disk, run the setup .
- A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.
Synonyms
* (equipment) apparatus * (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged) configurationVerb
(head)Anagrams
* *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