CONE

cone

(noun) any cone-shaped artifact

cone, cone cell, retinal cone

(noun) a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color

cone, strobilus, strobile

(noun) cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts

cone, conoid, cone shape

(noun) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point

cone

(verb) make cone-shaped; “cone a tire”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

cone (plural cones)

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.

(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.

Anything shaped like a cone.

The fruit of a conifer.

A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.

An ice cream cone.

A traffic cone

A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.

(anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.

(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.

(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.

(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.

(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)

(category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)

Hyponym: limit

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.

Synonyms

• (geometry): conical surface

• (ice cream cone): cornet, ice cream cone

Verb

cone (third-person singular simple present cones, present participle coning, simple past and past participle coned)

(transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.

(intransitive) To form a cone shape.

(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones

Anagrams

• Coen, Econ., Noce, ceno-, coen-, cœn-, econ, econ., once

Proper noun

Cone (plural Cones)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cone is the 3583^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9935 individuals. Cone is most common among White (86.93%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Coen, Econ., Noce, ceno-, coen-, cœn-, econ, econ., once

Source: Wiktionary

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Cone, n. Etym: [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. çana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See Hone, n.]

1. (Geom.)

Definition: A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right- angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.

2. Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

3. (Bot.)

Definition: The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.

4. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. Cone of rays (Opt.), the pencil of rays of light which proceed from a radiant point to a given surface, as that of a lens, or conversely.

– Cone pulley. See in the Vocabulary.

– Oblique or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base.

– Eight cone. See Cone, 1.

Cone, v. t.

Definition: To render coneshaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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