conning
中文解釋
wordnet sense
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Collins Definition
Verb
conned, past participle; conned, past tense; cons, 3rd person singular present; conning, present participle;
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conned, past participle; conned, past tense; cons, 3rd person singular present; conning, present participle;
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Direct the steering of (a ship)
- - he hadn't conned anything bigger than a Boston whaler
Web Definitions:
- (con) an argument opposed to a proposal
- (con) in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was written pro and con"
- (con) victimize: deprive of by deceit; "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"
- (con) convict: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- (con) memorize: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"
- (con) bunco: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- (Con (television series)) Con is a television series on Comedy Central in which con artist Skyler Stone revealed the secrets of his profession by performing confidence tricks, scams, and hoaxes of various degrees of complexity on camera. ...
- (The Con (album)) The Con is Tegan and Sara's fifth full-length studio album, released on July 24, 2007 (February 18, 2008 in the United Kingdom). ...
- (The Con (film)) The Con is a 1998 television movie starring William H. Macy and Rebecca De Mornay. It was directed by Steven Schachter and written by Macy and Schachter, who shared the 1999 Lone Star Film & Television Award for Best TV Teleplay.
- (The Con (video game)) The Con, released as Gamble Con Fight in Japan, is a fighting video game that was released for the PlayStation Portable on October 18, 2005. It was developed by Think & Feel Inc. The story follows the life of a con artist who fights for money.
- (Con) A male given name, a diminutive form of Conor or Cornelius
- (con) A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros); To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of; To know, understand, acknowledge
- (Con) Confidence game, swindle
- (con) with; used in very many musical directions, for example con allegrezza (with liveliness), con amore (with tenderness); (see also col, colla, above)
- (CON) Short for “convention”. A con is a gathering of fans. Some cons focus on a specific fandom; others, like Comic Con, are media-wide.
- (CON) Certificate of Need.
- (Con) Short for convention, usually an anime convention.
- (CON) Against; on the negative side; as, to argue pro and con.
- (CON) Commander of the Order of the Niger
- (CON) Conservation and Environment
- (CON) Consider. The difficulty of a monster.
- (CON) Mnemonic that represents the CP/M console device. For example, the CP/M command PIP CON:=TEST.SUB displays the file TEST.SUB on the console device. The explanation of the STAT command tells how to assign the logical device CON: to various physical devices. See console.
- (CON) Ms. Nitpicker cannot avoid snide thoughts about the similarities between "conning" or tricking someone out of money and holding a fannish "convention," but she will spare you her wisecracks. ...
- (CON) acronym of:CONfiguration file
- (CON) stipated. A defecation mutant phenotype.