different between recon vs recce

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k?n/, /??i?k?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ik?n/, /???k?n/

Etymology 1

Contracted form of reconnaissance.

Noun

recon (countable and uncountable, plural recons)

1. (chiefly US, military slang) reconnaissance.

Translations

Verb

recon (third-person singular simple present recons, present participle reconning, simple past and past participle reconned)

1. (chiefly US, military slang) reconnoiter.

Synonyms

• recce (British, Canadian)

Etymology 2

Contracted form of recombination +? -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as " […] the smallest element in the one-dimensional array that is interchangeable (but not divisible) by genetic recombination."

Noun

recon (plural recons)

1. (genetics) The smallest genetic unit that is capable of undergoing recombination.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Ceron, Creon, Crone, Oncer, crone, necro, necro-, oncer

English

Alternative forms

• recco, reccy

Etymology

Abbreviation of reconnaissance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ki/
• Hyphenation: rec?ce
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

recce (plural recces)

1. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Reconnaissance.
   • 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography

     Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce, she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.

   • 2006, Steve Farndon, Escape Inc.

     I'm afraid you two will have to go on a bit of a recce sometime soon.

Adjective

recce (not comparable)

1. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Relating to reconnaissance.
   • 1946, United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack

     There appears a captured photograph showing cruiser or battleship recovery of an old Jap float recce plane.

Verb

recce (third-person singular simple present recces, present participle recceing, simple past and past participle recced or recce'd or recceed)

1. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Reconnoitre.
   • 1961, John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel

     I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.

Synonyms

• (mainly US) recon

Anagrams

• eccer