Definitions for cone

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cone cone

Spelling: [kohn]

IPA: /koʊn/

Cone is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in cone (ceno).

Definitions for cone

noun

1. Geometry. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
2. anything shaped like a cone:
3. ice-cream cone.
4. Botany. the more or less conical multiple fruit of the pine, fir, etc., consisting of overlapping or valvate scales bearing naked ovules or seeds; a strobile. a similar fruit, as in cycads or club mosses.
5. Anatomy. one of the cone-shaped cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to color and intensity of light. Compare rod (def 17).
6. one of a series of cone-shaped markers placed along a road, as around an area of highway construction, especially to exclude or divert motor vehicles.
7. (in a taper thread screw or bevel gear) an imaginary cone or frustum of a cone concentric to the axis and defining the pitch surface or one of the extremities of the threads or teeth.
8. Ceramics. pyrometric cone.

verb (used with object)

1. to shape like a cone or a segment of a cone.

Origin of cone

1480-90; Latin cōnus Greek kônos pine-cone, cone-shaped figure; akin to hone¹

Examples for cone

From cone bras at Jean-Paul Gaultier to Doc Martens and crop-tops on Lindsay Lohan and Agyness Deyn, grunge-era fashion is back.

Whatever you think of the two pieces of music on display in these videos, one thing is beyond dispute: America loves a cone bra.

In those early days, a loudspeaker was set in a plywood basket or frame with a circle cut out for the cone.

Many feet down from the top it had torn a hole through the cone.

For his part, Logan now believes that more than 95 percent of cone bearing trees are infected.

They went up the hill to the east, across the cone, and down into the plain below.

cone Mills features in all the major chapters of the 20th century.

He rose early next morning, and climbed up to the top of the cone.

After two or three hours we reached the bottom of the cone of rocks and ashes.

In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.