'Cone' definitions:
Definition of 'cone'
From: WordNet
noun
Any cone-shaped artifact
noun
A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point [syn: cone, conoid, cone shape]
noun
noun
A visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color [syn: cone, cone cell, retinal cone]
verb
Make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
Definition of 'Cone'
From: 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. [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]
Definition of 'Cone'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cone'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Cone'
- Cone-in-cone,
- Cone clutch,
- Cone of rays,
- Cone pulley,
- Eight cone,
- Oblique cone,
- Right cone,
- Rods and cones,
- Scalene cone,
- Textile cone,
- Truncated cone,
- Visual cone,
- Volcanic cone,
- alluvial cone,
- cone cell,
- cone pepper,
- cone shape,
- element of a cone,
- fir cone,
- nose cone,
- pine cone,
- pyrometric cone,
- retinal cone,
- storm cone,
- wind cone,
- Pseudo-cone,
- cone friction clutch,
- cone-bearing,
- cone-nose,
- cone-shaped,
- big-cone spruce,
- cone-nosed bug,
- ice-cream cone,
- Equimomental cone of a given rigid body,
- big-cone douglas fir