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Definition: Cone |
ConeNoun1. Any cone-shaped artifact. 2. A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point. 3. Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts. 4. Visual receptor cell sensitive to color. Verb1. Make cone-shaped; "cone a tire". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Cone \Cone\, noun. [Latin conus cone (in sense 1), Greek; akin to Sanskrit [,c]ana whetstone, Latin cuneus wedge, and probably to English hone. See Hone, noun]. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. A geometric configuration having a circular bottom and sides tapering off to an apex (as in nose cone).2. A type of light-sensitive cell in the retina. Cones are involved in color vision, high visual acuity, and photopic vision. (references) |
Chemical Industry | In an oxy-acetylene flame there are 2 or 3 stages of combustion:1)the inner tip, sometimes called the cone. 2)beard or brush. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | That part of the envelope, usually in the form of a truncated cone, which lies between the neck and the face-plate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Is the result of the accumulation of ejected material around the vent. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A set of spur gears fixed to a common shaft, the diameters of which are stepped in size so that the set forms a cone. A gear cone is used in the diving key type transmission and in the quick-change gear box. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | One of the special retinal receptor elements which are presumed to be primarily concerned with perception of light and colour stimuli when the eye is adapted to light. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | To provide(a workpiece)with a conical hole or(the outer end of a hole)with a conical enlargement, so as to receive a centre or the head of a "countersunk screw" Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A conical hill or mountain, as an alluvial cone or a volcanic cone. b. A device used on top of blast furnaces to enable charge to be put in without permitting gas to escape. Syn:bell c. The conical part of a gas flame next to the orifice of the tip d. The conical hill or conical mountain built by an active volcano. Explosive volcanoes build their cones from debris, ranging in size from dust to huge blocks, thrown out from the vent and have steep slopes approaching or exceeding the angle of repose. Quieter volcanoes that pour out lava have much gentler slopes e. A three-sided pyramid made of unfired ceramic materials whose composition is such that when heated at a controlled rate they will deform and fuse at a known temperature. It is placed inside a kiln or furnace with ceramic ware to indicate the temperature of the kiln and the fired condition of the ware. See also:pyrometric cone f. A solid with a circle for a base and with a convex surface that tapers uniformly to a vertex g. Geometric pattern of the rock plug or stickup left in the bottom of a borehole drilled by a concave bit h. Beveled coupling device on a small diamond drill or percussion rockdrill used to attach it to a drill column. (references) |
Transportation | Characteristic apparent shape of topmark internationally recognised for the lateral system of marking or buoyage. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In mathematics, a cone is the quadric surface generated when a line is rotated around a fixed point (called the apex), at a fixed angle from another line (called the axis), both lines passing through that fixed point. It also can be described as the locus of all the points belonging to all the lines that pass through a given point, and that intersect at that point at a fixed angle to the axis line.
Lower half of a mathematical coneA cone is represented in Cartesian coordinates by the equation
The shape called cone in more colloquial usage is half of a mathematical cone, being divided at the apex; or else more than half if it is removed at some distance from the apex (i.e., a frustum - see below). Common cone-shaped objects are an ice cream cone (with the point down), plastic traffic cones on roads for temporarily guiding traffic (with the point up), and pine cones (see botanical definition below).
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A cone with its apex cut off by a plane parallel to its base is called a conical frustum.
In Botany, the term cone refers to a roughly conical (that is, "cone-shaped" as defined above) structure characterized by scales or bracts arranged around a central axis, usually in conifers and cycads.
In vertebrate anatomy, a cone is a type of light-sensitive cell found along with rods in the retina of the eye.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cone."
Synonyms: ConeSynonyms: cone cell (n), cone shape (n), conoid (n), retinal cone (n), strobile (n), strobilus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Pyramid, cone. |
Rotundity | Cone, conoid; pear shape, egg shape, bell shape. |
Sharpness | Crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille; spire, pyramid, steeple. |
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Screenplays | Genghis Khan cone. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) It's a snow cone maker (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) Cone. I like to lick (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) The world's most pissed-off snow cone! (Jack Frost; writing credit: Michael Cooney; Jeremy Paige) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cone of Silence (1961) | |
Song Titles | One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (performing artist: Honey Cone) Stick Up (performing artist: Honey Cone) Want Ads (performing artist: Honey Cone) | |
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 | An illustration of a woman getting a mammogram, showing a cone in position on her right breast. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | "Cone and Plane" (movie) by Ben Levy. |
 | Nose Cone Water Cooling. Credit: NASA. |  | The Hubble telescope's infrared camera has peered into the Cone Nebula, revealing a stunning ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Pole signal with tin cone for reflecting sunlight Constructed by survey crews under direction of Ferdinand Hassler Sketch by Assistant John Farley - view looking to south across Long Island Sound. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Tripod signal with tin cone for reflecting sunlight At signal West Base, west end of Great Fire Island Base Line Constructed by survey crews under direction of Ferdinand Hassler Sketch by Assistant John Farley - view looking to east. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Cross erected on Observation Hill, a 600-foot cinder cone. A memorial to the Scott Expedition. Inscription reads: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Pahoehoe lava flow on Mauna Loa. Note small cinder cone in the distance. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Cone shell, Conus marmoreus, feeding on cowrie, Cypraea caputserpensis. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Figure 9. Cone for use with Hensen conical net. Invented by Victor Hensen of the University of Kiel in about 1883. He called this invention " Korbnetz." In 1901 he described an improved version that contained a tin-plate envelope. Between these dates, an intermediate form of this net and cone was used in the course of the Plankton Expedition of 1889. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Speaker Cone" by Rory Franklin Commentary: "Here is a close up of my B&W speaker's. Weaved Kevlar Cone." | "Cone" by Lauri Saarni Commentary: "Closeup of cone. ." |
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Health | Systematic pathologic evaluation of the cone specimen is necessary. (references) | |
Persons with stage IA1 disease have a high cure rate with either simple hysterectomy or, where fertility preservation is an issue, by cone biopsy with clear margins. (references) | ||
In patients with stage IA1 cervical squamous cell carcinoma, simple hysterectomy or cone biopsy (with negative margins) is virtually 100 percent curative of patients. (references) | ||
Business | A stable economy, increasing security needs and a common market free-trade zone in the Southern Cone (MERCOSUR), strengthen the potential and size of the market. (references) | |
This would, in their opinion, make the company's systems highly competitive, not only in Brazil but also in Mercosul, the common market for the Southern Cone, which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolívia and Chile as associate members. (references) | ||
Economic History | Paraguay | It also belongs to the Organization of American States, the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), the Rio Group, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, and MERCOSUR (the Southern Cone Common Market). (references) |
Uruguay | Major markets--MERCOSUR Southern Cone Common Market 45% (Brazil 25%, Argentina 16%, Paraguay 4%); EU 20% (Germany 5%); U.S. 7%. Imports--$3.2 billion: fuels, chemicals, machinery, metals, vehicles. (references) | |
Equatorial Guinea | Annobon Island, named for its discovery on New Year's Day 1472, is a small volcanic island covering 18 square kilometers (7 sq. mi.). The coastline is abrupt except in the north; the principal volcanic cone contains a small lake. (references) | |
Political Economy | Brazil | It has also led political efforts for economic integration in the Southern Cone of South America. (references) |
URUGUAY | Uruguay is a founding member of MERCOSUR, the Southern Cone Common Market, created in 1991 and composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, with Chile and Bolivia as associate members. (references) | |
ARGENTINA | Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay established the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) in 1991, and in 1995 formed a partial customs union with a Common External Tariff (CET) covering approximately 85 percent of trade. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics. |
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Phil McGraw | Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad. Frankly, I go to the mall. I don't want to know everybody's damn problems. Just let me go get my ice cream cone and go home. |
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| "Cone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.88% of the time. "Cone" is used about 376 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.88% | 353 | 15,179 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.72% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.6% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 376 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cone" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cone | Last name | 4,000 | 3,251 |
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| USA | Cone Mills Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Cone, TX |
Expressions using "cone": adventive cone ♦ air cone ♦ alluvial cone ♦ baptist cone ♦ blowing cone ♦ breached cone ♦ cone biopsy ♦ cone cell ♦ Cone cells ♦ Cone clutch ♦ cone drive ♦ cone effect area ♦ cone friction clutch ♦ cone of ambiguity ♦ cone of gears ♦ Cone of rays ♦ cone of silence ♦ cone off ♦ cone pepper ♦ Cone pulley ♦ cone scale ♦ cone shape ♦ cone vision ♦ constant of the cone ♦ Eight cone ♦ element of a cone ♦ Equimomental cone of a given rigid body ♦ fir cone ♦ gear cone ♦ headless set screw with cone point ♦ hop cone ♦ ice cone ♦ ice cream cone ♦ inner cone ♦ lava cone ♦ mud cone ♦ nose cone ♦ oblique cone ♦ parasitic cone ♦ pine cone ♦ pyrometric cone ♦ pyrometric cone equivalent ♦ retinal cone ♦ right cone ♦ scalene cone ♦ standard pyrometric cone ♦ storm cone ♦ Textile cone ♦ truncate cone ♦ truncated cone ♦ tumbler gear and cone ♦ view cone ♦ visual cone ♦ volcanic cone ♦ wind cone. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cone": cone-bearing, Cone-in-cone, cone-like, Cone-nose, cone-nosed bug, cone-pointed, cone-shaped. | |
Ending with "cone": nose-cone, single-cone. | |
Containing "cone": big-cone douglas fir, big-cone spruce. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cone space | 891 | cone recipe sno syrup | 61 |
pine cone | 675 | pine cone craft | 58 |
cone | 528 | foote cone belding | 48 |
snow cone | 310 | cone flower | 45 |
snow cone machine | 285 | cone recipe waffle | 45 |
ice cream cone | 280 | cinder cone volcano | 44 |
traffic cone | 180 | pine cone hill | 44 |
pine cone research | 132 | snow cone supply | 42 |
leep cone | 129 | snow cone flavor | 41 |
snow cone syrup | 116 | purple cone flower | 40 |
snow cone maker | 105 | safety cone | 40 |
cone biopsy | 104 | waffle cone maker | 40 |
sno cone | 97 | big orange cone | 39 |
volume of a cone | 92 | area cone surface | 38 |
cone hospital moses | 86 | ear cone | 37 |
sno cone machine | 84 | sno cone syrup | 36 |
cone moses | 72 | snow cone syrup recipe | 35 |
cone cream cupcakes ice | 72 | waffle cone | 32 |
ice cream cone picture | 70 | cone mill | 30 |
david cone | 61 | cone health moses system | 28 |
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| Language | Translations for "cone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kon (taper), boçë. (various references) | |
Arabic | كوز (ear, ewer, jug, mug, tankard), مخروط (etcher), قمة بركان, جعله على شكل كوز, شىء مخروطي الشكل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шишарка (fir cone), конус (bell). (various references) | |
Chinese | 锥体, 圓錐體 . (various references) | |
Czech | kužel (beam, indian club, taper), kornout, šiška. (various references) | |
Danish | conus, cone, tappe (cone cells, tapping), krydsnøgle (cheese, spider, wedge ring), konus, konisk nøgle, konisk krydsnøgle, kogle, klokke (bell), kegle (body, skittle), kamerakonus, hjulkegle (cone of gears, gear cone), forsænke (countersink), flammekaerne (inner cone, inner tip), dorn (arbor, bell, boom attachment, core tube, dowel bar, extruder tip, flaring tool, guide tip, mandrel, point, punch, puncher, reamer, stud, tongue, turning pin, vertical mandrel). (various references) | |
Dutch | kegel (pin). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vafleto (wafer), konuso. (various references) | |
Farsi | میوه کاج , مخروطی شکل کردن , مخروط, هرچیزمخروطی یاکله قندی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kartio. (various references) | |
French | cone (inner cone), cône (conus, volcanic cone). (various references) | |
German | kegel (beam, cones, ninepin, ninepins, pin, skittle, tenpin), konus (taper), zapfen (bung, draw, faucet, gudgeon, icicle, pin, pull, spigot, spigots, stopper, tap, tenon, trunnion, trunnions), trichter (bell, crater, filler, funnel, funnels, hopper, sinkhole). (various references) | |
Greek | κώνος (cone of gears, conus, gear cone). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קונוס, חדודית, חרוט (carved, engraved, incised, inscribed), אצטרובל (acorn), גביע (bowl, calix, chalice, cup, goblet, tankard), צנובר (cinnobar, pine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | toboz, tölcsér (charging boot, cornet, crater, filler, funnel, hopper, horn), kúp (suppository). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kerucut. (various references) | |
Italian | cono (flaring tool, mushroom, needle, reamer, valve piece). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 毬果 , 円錐形 , 円錐体 , 円錐 (round gimlet), コール天 (cone speaker, cones, corded velveteen, corduroy, core, corn, Corn Belt, corn chowder, corn flakes, corn snow, corn soup, corn starch, corn syrup, cornmeal, corns). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうか (a nearby fire, a sudden fire, day off, furlough, holiday, old family, summer), コーン (corn), えんすいたい, えんすいけい, えんすい (brine, plumb bob, salt water). (various references) | |
Korean | 콘. (various references) | |
Manx | cughlin (fircone, pine cone), beeal (approach, crater, flue, mouth, muzzle, orifice, outlet, passage, rictus, rim). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjegle. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cone (spire). (various references) | |
Romanian | con, produce conuri, pivot (gudgeon, hinge, pintle, pivot, Spike, spindle, Trunnion), pâlnie (crater, funnel, tun dish), fus (hasp, journal, linchpin, mandrel, shaft, spindle, Trunnion), da formã de con. (various references) | |
Russian | конус (bell, bevel, nozzle, taper). (various references) | |
Scottish | cnèatag (fir cone). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kupa, kornet (cornet), fišek (cornet), šišarka (acorn, fir cone, nut-gall, nut-pine, pinecone). (various references) | |
Spanish | cono (skittle), piña (fight, pine, pineapple, pine-apple, pinecone). (various references) | |
Swedish | strut (cornet), kotte (conelet, strobile), kon, kägla (ninepin, pin, skittle, tenpin). (various references) | |
Turkish | volkanik zirve, kozalak (mast, pine cone), koni biçimli şey, koni, külah (coif, conical hat), huni (funnel). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сопло (muzzle, nosepiece, nozzle, orifice), розтруб (funnel, mouth, ochrea), конус (bell, taper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hình nón (conical, coniform). (various references) | |
Welsh | cogwrn (knob, shell). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | konos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conus, medad, metis, metitus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cone": coned, coneflower, coneflowers, conelrad, conelrads, conenose, conenoses, conepate, conepates, conepatl, conepatls, cones, coney, coneys. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cone": aglycone, ancone, pinecone, scone, silicone. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cone": aglycones, anconeal, ancones, beaconed, deaconed, deaconess, deaconesses, falconer, falconers, falconet, falconets, gluconeogeneses, gluconeogenesis, icones, jaconet, jaconets, pinecones, scones, silicones. (additional references) | |
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"Cone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canne, cbone, ceen, cena, cene, ceni, chone, Chonwe, cien, cina, cinel, cinex, cini, cinni, cinqe, Cione, cmon, cne, Cnen, cno, Cnoke, coae, cobne, Cobner, cocne, coee, Cognee, cognex, cogni, cohe, coine, coini, coje, cokne, colne, cona, Conae, Conaf, conam, conay, conce, cond, Conefo, coner, conet, conex, coni, conie, conif, conip, conir, conje, conna, conne, connec, connek, connel, connet, Connex, conni, connu, cono, conq, conse, Consejo, Contel, conv, Conze, cooe, coonet, cooni, coony, corne, Cornejo, Cosne, coue, Counce, Cownie, coxe, coye, coze, cuine, Cuna, cunde, cune, Cuneo, cuni, cunie, cunn, cuno, cuny, cyne, Econe, Econo, icone, koen, kone, konge, Koni, Konje, Konoe, ocdna, ocner, ocone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cone" (pronounced kō"n) |
| 3 | k ō" n | Scone. |
| 2 | -ō" n | alone, atone, bemoan, blown, bone, bourguignon, clone, Cologne, condone, crone, cyclone, dethrone, disown, drone, flown, groan, grown, hipbone, homegrown, hone, intone, known, Leone, loan, lone, moan, Mon, outgrown, outshone, overblown, overgrown, overthrown, own, phone, postpone, prone, roan, sewn, shone, shown, sown, stone, throne, thrown, tone, trombone, trone, unbeknown, unknown, zone. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: once. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-o" | |
-1 letter: con, eon, one. | |
-2 letters: en, ne, no, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o" | |
+1 letter: canoe, cento, clone, coden, coned, cones, coney, conge, conte, copen, coven, cozen, crone, nonce, ocean, onces, ounce, ponce, recon, scone. | |
+2 letters: acnode, aeonic, ancone, beacon, beckon, bounce, canoed, canoes, cenote, censor, centos, chosen, cineol, cloned, cloner, clones, cloven, codein, codens, cogent, cohune, coigne, coined, coiner, colone, coneys, confer, congee, conger, conges, conies, conine, conked, conker, conned, conner, contes, convex, convey, copens, cornea, corned, cornel, corner, cornet, cosine, covens, cowmen, cozens, crepon, crones, deacon, docent, encode, encore, enolic, exonic, icones, income, jounce, nocent, nocked, noetic, nonces, notice, novice, oceans, ochone, octane, orcein, oscine, ounces, ponced, ponces, pounce, reckon, recoin, recons, sconce, scones, second, socmen. | |
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