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NOUN (4)

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]


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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zool.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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