1. cone(n = noun.artifact) - any cone-shaped artifact;
is a kind of artefact, artifact
Derived forms verb cone1, adjective conic1, adjective conical1
2. cone(n = noun.shape) cone shape, conoid - a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point;
is a kind of round shape
has parts: peak, point, tip
has particulars: funnel, funnel shape
Derived forms verb cone1, adjective conic1, adjective conical1
3. cone(n = noun.plant) strobile, strobilus - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts;
is a kind of reproductive structure
is a part of conifer, coniferous tree, horsetail, club-moss, club moss, lycopod
has particulars: fir cone, galbulus, pinecone
Derived form adjective conical1
4. cone(n = noun.body) cone cell, retinal cone - a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color;
is a kind of visual cell
is a part of retina
has parts: iodopsin
cone(v = verb.contact) - make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
is one way to bevel, chamfer
Derived forms noun cone1, noun cone2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
1. 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
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. [1913 Webster]
"Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone
Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault." [1913 Webster]
3. The fruit or strobile of the
4. A shell of the genus
To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels. [1913 Webster]
cone, n. & v.
--n.
1 a solid figure with a circular (or other curved) plane base, tapering to a point.
2 a thing of a similar shape, solid or hollow, e.g. as used to mark off areas of roads.
3 the dry fruit of a conifer.
4 an ice-cream cornet.
5 any of the minute cone-shaped structures in the retina.
6 a conical mountain esp. of volcanic origin.
7 (in full cone-shell) any marine gastropod mollusc of the family Conidae.
8 Pottery a ceramic pyramid, melting at a known temperature, used to indicate the temperature of a kiln.
--v.tr.
1 shape like a cone.
2 (foll. by off) Brit. mark off (a road etc.) with cones.
Etymology:
F c{ocirc}ne f. L conus f. Gk konos
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N rotundity, roundness, 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), curved surface, hypersphere, hyperdimensional surface, rotund, round, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, columnar, lumbriciform, conic, conical, spherical, spheroidal, globular, globated, globous, globose, egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped, ovoid, oviform, gibbous, rixiform, campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform, fungiform, bead-like, moniliform, pyriform, bulbous, tres atque rotundus, round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.
alluvial cone, cone cell, cone clutch, cone friction clutch, cone pepper, cone pulley, cone shape, element of a cone, fir cone, ice-cream cone, nose cone, pine cone, pyrometric cone, retinal cone, storm cone, truncated cone, wind cone