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1. (n.) cone
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
2. cone
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
3. cone
anything shaped like a cone:
the cone of a volcano.
4. cone
the reproductive structure of certain nonflowering trees and shrubs, as the pine, consisting of hard or papery scales bearing naked seeds and arranged in an overlapping whorl around an axis.
5. cone
a similar structure, as in cycads or club mosses.
6. cone
one of the cone-shaped cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to bright light and color.
7. (v.t.) cone
to shape like a cone or a segment of a cone.
Etymology: (1480–90; < L cōnus < Gk kônos pine cone, cone-shaped figure; akin to hone1)
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| Definition of 'CONE' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) cone
any cone-shaped artifact
2. (noun) cone, conoid, cone shape
a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
3. (noun) cone, strobilus, strobile
cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
4. (verb) cone, cone cell, retinal cone
a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
5. (verb) cone
make cone-shaped
"cone a tire"
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1. (noun) cone
a shape like a cylinder with a pointed top
2. cone
a cone-shaped pastry for eating ice cream
***chocolate ice cream in a cone
3. cone
a wood-like fruit of the pine tree
***children picking up pine cones
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| Definition of 'CONE' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) CONE
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. (noun) CONE
anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form
3. (noun) CONE
the fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, 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. (noun) CONE
a shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form
5. (verb) CONE
to render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels
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Sense: a solid figure with a point and a base in the shape of a circle or oval.
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 Afrikaans: keël, kegel, konus; tregt |
 Arabic: قِمْع |
 Bulgarian: конус |
 Brazilian: cone |
 Czech: kužel |
 German: der Kegel |
 Danish: kegle |
 Greek: κώνος |
 Spanish: cono |
 Estonian: koonus |
 Farsi: مخروط |
 Finnish: kartio |
 French: cône |
 Hebrew: חָרוּט |
 Hindi: शंकु |
 Croatian: čunj, stožac |
 Hungarian: kúp |
 Indonesian: kerucut |
 Icelandic: keila |
 Italian: cono |
 Japanese: 円錐 |
 Korean: 원뿔 |
 Lithuanian: kūgis |
 Latvian: konuss |
 Malay: kon |
 Dutch: kegel |
 Norwegian: kjegle |
 Polish: stożek |
 Persian: مخروط |
 Pashto: مخروط، دجنغوزى غوټه |
 Portuguese: cone |
 Romanian: con |
 Russian: конус |
 Slovak: kužeľ |
 Slovenian: stožec |
 Serbian: kupa |
 Swedish: kon, kägla |
 Thai: กรวย |
 Turkish: koni |
 Taiwanese: 錐形物 |
 Ukrainian: конус |
 Urdu: مخروطہ |
 Vietnamese: vật hình nón |
 Chinese: 锥形物 |
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