Cone

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cone
       n 1: any cone-shaped artifact
       2: a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a
          point [syn: {conoid}, {cone shape}]
       3: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
          [syn: {strobilus}, {strobile}]
       4: visual receptor cell sensitive to color [syn: {cone cell}, {retinal
          cone}]
       v : make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Cone, TX
    Zip code(s): 79357