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Cons.
cons.
| 1. | consecrated. |
| 2. | conservative. |
| 3. | (in prescriptions) conserve; keep. Origin: < L conservā ![]() |
| 4. | consolidated. |
| 5. | consonant. |
| 6. | constable. |
| 7. | constitution. |
| 8. | constitutional. |
| 9. | construction. |
| 10. | consul. |
| 11. | consulting. |
con
2 [kon]
–verb (used with object), conned, con⋅ning.
| 1. | to learn; study; peruse or examine carefully. |
| 2. | to commit to memory. |
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME cunnen, OE cunnan var. of can 1 in sense “become acquainted with, learn to know”
bef. 1000; ME cunnen, OE cunnan var. of can 1 in sense “become acquainted with, learn to know”

con
4 [kon]
adjective, verb, conned, con⋅ning, noun Informal.–adjective
| 1. | involving abuse of confidence: a con trick. |
–verb (used with object)
| 2. | to swindle; trick: That crook conned me out of all my savings. |
| 3. | to persuade by deception, cajolery, etc. |
–noun
| 4. | a confidence game or swindle. |
| 5. | a lie, exaggeration, or glib self-serving talk: He had a dozen different cons for getting out of paying traffic tickets. |
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cons
/konz/ or /kons/ [from LISP]1. vt. To add a new element to a specified list, esp. at the top. "OK, cons picking a replacement for the console TTY onto the agenda."
2. `cons up': vt. To synthesize from smaller pieces: "to cons up an example".
In LISP itself, `cons' is the most fundamental operation for building structures. It takes any two objects and returns a `dot-pair' or two-branched tree with one object hanging from each branch. Because the result of a cons is an object, it can be used to build binary trees of any shape and complexity. Hackers think of it as a sort of universal constructor, and that is where the jargon meanings spring from.
Jargon File 4.2.0
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cons
/konz/ or /kons/ [LISP, "construct"] A Lisp function which takes an element H and a list T and returns a new list whose head is H and whose tail is T.
In Lisp, "cons" is the most fundamental operation for building structures. It actually takes any two objects and returns a "dotted-pair" or two-branched tree with one object hanging from each branch. Because the result of a cons is an object, it can be used to build binary trees of any shape and complexity.
[The Jargon File]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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