different between cond vs conn

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

Clipping.

Adjective

cond (not comparable)

1. Clipping of conditional.

Etymology 2

From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.

Verb

cond (third-person singular simple present conds, present participle conding, simple past and past participle conded)

1. Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
   • 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:

     Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]

Further reading

• cond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• no-CD

English

Alternative forms

• con

Etymology

Variant of cond, from Middle English conduen, condien, from Anglo-Norman conduire, from Latin cond?cere, present active infinitive of cond?c? (“lead, bring or draw together”), from con- (“with, together”) +? d?c? (“lead”). Doublet of conduce.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n/
• Homophone: con
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

conn (plural conns)

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 she reached the bridge.

Derived terms

• have the conn (have the con)
• take the conn (take the con)

Verb

conn (third-person singular simple present conns, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. (transitive) To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).

   The pilot conned the ship safely into the harbor.

   • 1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, chapter 8

     “Ay,” says I, “you’ll allow me to steer, that is, hold the helm, but you’ll conn the ship, as they call it; that is, as at sea, a boy serves to stand at the helm, but he that gives him the orders is pilot.”

Derived terms

• conning line
• conning officer
• conning tower

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