[syn: cone, cone cell, retinal cone]
VERB (1)
1. make cone-shaped;
- Example: "cone a tire"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cone \Cone\ (k[=o]n?), n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr.
kw^nos; akin to Skr. [,c]ana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and
prob. to E. hone. See Hone, n.]
1. (Geom.) 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.
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2. Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as,
a volcanic cone, a collection of scori[ae] around the
crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
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Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone
Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. --Milton.
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3. (Bot.) The fruit or strobile of the Conifer[ae], 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.
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4. (Zool.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical
form.
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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 cone or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is
inclined to the plane of its base.
Eight cone. See Cone, 1.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cone \Cone\ (k[=o]n), v. t.
To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of
a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cone
n 1: any cone-shaped artifact
2: a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a
point [syn: cone, conoid, cone shape]
3: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
[syn: cone, strobilus, strobile]
4: a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to
bright light and to color [syn: cone, cone cell, retinal
cone]
v 1: make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "cone":
acoustical network, ament, capacitor speaker, capitulum, catkin,
coaxial speaker, complex cone, conelet, conoid, cop, cornet,
corymb, crossover network, cyme, diaphragm, dynamic speaker,
earphone, electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker,
electrostatic speaker, excited-field speaker,
full-fidelity speaker, funnel, head, headphone, headset,
high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker, horn,
ice-cream cone, loudspeaker, low-frequency speaker,
midrange speaker, monorange speaker, moving-coil speaker, panicle,
permanent magnet speaker, pine cone, raceme, spadix, speaker,
speaker system, speaker unit, spike, spikelet, strobile, thyrse,
triaxial speaker, tweeter, umbel, verticillaster, voice coil,
woofer