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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONE, n. [It coincides in radical sense with the root of can and begin.]
1. A solid body or figure having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a point or vertex, like a sugar loaf.
2. In botany, the conical fruit of several evergreen trees, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, usually opening , and has a seed at the base of each scale.
A cone of rays, in optics, includes all the rays of light which proceed from a radiant point and fall upon the surface of a glass.
A right cone, is when its axis is perpendicular to its base, and its sides equal. It is formed by the revolution of a right-angle plane triangle about one of its sides.
A scalene cone, is when its axis is inclined to its base and its sides unequal.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin conus, from Greek k?nos Date: 1545 1. a. a solid generated by rotating a right triangle about one of its legs — called also right circular cone b. a solid bounded by a circular or other closed plane base and the surface formed by line segments joining every point of the boundary of the base to a common vertex — see volume table c. a surface traced by a moving straight line passing through a fixed vertex 2. a. a mass of ovule-bearing or pollen-bearing scales or bracts in most conifers or in cycads that are arranged usually on a somewhat elongated axis b. any of several flower or fruit clusters suggesting a cone 3. something that resembles a cone in shape: as a. any of the conical photosensitive receptor cells of the vertebrate retina that function in color vision — compare rod 3 b. any of a family (Conidae) of tropical marine gastropod mollusks that inject their prey with a potent toxin c. the apex of a volcano d. a crisp usually cone-shaped wafer for holding ice cream II. transitive verb (coned; coning) Date: 1845 1. to make cone-shaped 2. to bevel like the slanting surface of a cone <cone a tire>

Britannica Concise

In botany, a mass of scales or bracts, usually ovate, containing the reproductive organs of certain non-flowering plants. A distinguishing feature of pines and other conifers, the cone is roughly analogous to the flower of other plants. Cones (strobili) are also found on club mosses and horsetails.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a solid figure with a circular (or other curved) plane base, tapering to a point. 2 a thing of a similar shape, solid or hollow, e.g. as used to mark off areas of roads. 3 the dry fruit of a conifer. 4 an ice-cream cornet. 5 any of the minute cone-shaped structures in the retina. 6 a conical mountain esp. of volcanic origin. 7 (in full cone-shell) any marine gastropod mollusc of the family Conidae. 8 Pottery a ceramic pyramid, melting at a known temperature, used to indicate the temperature of a kiln. --v.tr. 1 shape like a cone. 2 (foll. by off) Brit. mark off (a road etc.) with cones. Etymology: F c{ocirc}ne f. L conus f. Gk konos

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cone Cone, v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cone Cone, n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. ?; 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. 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. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. --Milton. 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. 4. (Zo["o]l.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form. 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 or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base. Eight cone. See Cone, 1.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cones) 1. A cone is a shape with a circular base and smooth curved sides ending in a point at the top. N-COUNT 2. A cone is the fruit of a tree such as a pine or fir. ...a bowl of fir cones. N-COUNT 3. A cone is a thin, cone-shaped biscuit that is used for holding ice cream. You can also refer to an ice cream that you eat in this way as a cone. She stopped by the ice-cream shop and had a chocolate cone. N-COUNT 4. see also pine cone, traffic cone

Moby Thesaurus

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