Meaning

1 senses
  1. The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the."

    The officer of the deck has the conn of the vessel; the captain took the conn when he reached the bridge.

Examples

24 sentences
  1. I had no idea I was being conned.

    Я уяви не мав, що мене розводять. — deniko

  2. Tom conned Mary into doing that.

  3. I think Tom is conning us.

  4. Tom didn't realize he'd been conned.

  5. Tom soon realized he'd been conned.

    deTom erkannte bald, dass er betrogen worden war. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Origin

Variant of cond, from Middle English conduen, condien, from Anglo-Norman conduire, from La

Variant of cond, from Middle English conduen, condien, from Anglo-Norman conduire, from Latin condūcō (“lead, bring or draw together”), from con- (“with, together”) + dūcō (“lead”). Doublet of conduce.

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Forms

plural: conns
Singularconn
Pluralconns

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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