An argument opposed to a proposal.

A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison.

synonyms: convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird.

Dutch: bajesklant, convict
Polish: wyrokowiec

A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.

synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting.

Deprive of by deceit.

synonyms: bunco, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize ... show more.

Commit to memory; learn by heart.

synonyms: learn, memorise, memorize.

Roget 505: remember, mind; retain the memory of, retain the remembrance of; keep in view.    recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's thoughts back; rake up the past.    have in the thoughts, hold in the thoughts, bear in the thoughts, carry in the thoughts, keep in the thoughts, retain in the thoughts, have in the memory, hold in the memory, bear in the memory, carry in the memory, keep in the memory, retain in the memory, have in the mind, hold in the mind, bear in the mind, carry in the mind, keep in the mind, retain in the mind, hold in remembrance; be in one's thoughts, live in one's thoughts, remain in one's thoughts, dwell in one's thoughts, haunt one's thoughts, impress one's thoughts, be in one's mind, live in one's mind, remain in one's mind, dwell in one's mind, haunt one's mind, impress one's mind, dwell in one's memory.    sink in the mind; run in the head; not be able to get out of one's head; be deeply impressed with; rankle etc. (revenge) 919.    recur to the mind; flash on the mind, flash across the memory.    [cause to remember] remind; suggest etc. (inform ) 527; prompt; put in mind, keep in mind, bring to mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem [Lat.]; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize.    task the memory, tax the memory.    get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers' ends, have at one's finger tips; commit to memory, memorize; con over, con; fix in the memory, rivet in the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory, stamp in the memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in the memory, treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in the memory, enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory with, stuff the memory with, burden the memory with.    redeem from oblivion; keep the memory alive, keep the wound green, pour salt in the wound, reopen old wounds'; tangere ulcus [Lat.]; keep up the memory of; commemorate etc. (celebrate) 883.    make a note of, jot a note, pen a memorandum etc. (record) 551.    ... show more

Dutch: memoriseren

In opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc..

Roget 488: yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, 'thou hast said'," you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes [Lat.], ex concesso [Lat.]; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch.    be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly etc. 602.    affirmatively, in the affirmative.    OK, all right, might as well, why not;? with one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una voce, by common consent, in chorus, to a man; nem.    con, nemine contradicente [Lat.]; nemine dissentiente [Lat.]; without a dissentient voice; as one man, one and all, on all hands.    ... show more

Any cone-shaped artifact.

Roget 244: angularity, angularness^†; aduncity^†; angle, cusp, bend; fold etc. 258; notch etc. 257; fork, bifurcation.    elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo^†, akimbo.    corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel [Arch.], coign^†.    right angle etc. (perpendicular) 216.1, 212; obliquity etc. 217; angle of 45 degrees, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle.    angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry^†; clinometer, graphometer^†, goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy.    triangle, trigon^†, wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon^†, decagon.    pyramid, cone.    Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.    ... show more

A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point.

synonyms: cone shape, conoid.

Roget 249: rotundity; roundness etc. adj.; cylindricity^†; sphericity, spheroidity^†; globosity^†.    cylinder, cylindroid^†, cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll, roller; rouleau^†, column, rolling-pin, rundle.    cone, conoid^†; pear shape, egg shape, bell shape.    sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder^†; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote^†, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution) 248.    curved surface, hypersphere; hyperdimensional surface.    ... show more

Dutch: conus, kegel
Polish: stożek

Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts.

synonyms: strobile, strobilus.

Polish: szyszka

A visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color.

synonyms: cone cell, retinal cone.

Dutch: kegeltje
Polish: czopek

Make cone-shaped.