con
Từ điển Collocation
con noun
1 (also con trick) trick
ADJ. big The scheme was all a big con.
CON + NOUN artist, man
2 (usuallythe cons) disadvantage
VERB + CON consider, discuss, weigh up Before making a decision, you need to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation.
PHRASES the pros and cons
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- an argument opposed to a proposal
- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison; convict, inmate, jail bird, jailbird, gaolbird, yard bird, yardbird
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property; bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
v.
- deprive of by deceit; victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change
He swindled me out of my inheritance
She defrauded the customers who trusted her
the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
- commit to memory; learn by heart; memorize, memorise, learn
Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
n. The logical device name for console; reserved by the MS-DOS operating system for the keyboard and the screen. The input-only keyboard and the output-only screen together make up the console and represent the primary sources of input and output in an MS-DOS computer system.
File Extension Dictionary
Tree Professional Conifer Creator File
Train Simulator Train/Model Identification File (Microsoft Corporation)
Unreal 2 Audio File (Epic Games, Inc.)
WordPerfect Document Concordance (Corel Corporation)
Battlefield 1942 Configuration File (Electronic Arts, Inc.)
LucasArts Container File (LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC)
Simdir Configuration File
Knowledgeware Consolidation File
Trace Data File (GraphiTech Ltd.)
Concept Application Server Source Code (RadGs Software s.r.l)
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
cons|conned|conning
syn.: bunco bunco game bunko bunko game con game confidence game confidence trick convict defraud diddle flimflam gaolbird gip goldbrick gyp hornswoggle hustle in opposition inmate jail bird jailbird learn memorise memorize mulct nobble rook scam short-change sting swindle victimize yard bird yardbird
