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Definition: Cone-shaped |
Cone-shapedAdjective1. Relating to or resembling a cone; "conical mountains"; "conelike fruit". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cone-shaped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Synonyms: Cone-shapedSynonyms: conelike (adj), conic (adj), conical (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Acinaciform; apiculate, apiculated; aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate; lanceolate, lanciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped; setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cone-shaped |
| English words defined with "cone-shaped": collet, collet chuck, cone, cone clutch, cone friction clutch, Coniform, conodont ♦ dunce cap, dunce's cap ♦ Erlenmeyer flask ♦ fool's cap ♦ genus Rudbeckia ♦ haycock ♦ keratoconus ♦ megaphone ♦ proturan ♦ Rudbeckia ♦ snuffer, strobile, strobilus ♦ telsontail, Top-shaped. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cone-shaped": breaker operator ♦ casing runner, CASING-RUNNING-MACHINE TENDER, cone biopsy, cone cells, cone of silence, conical drum, CUFF FOLDER, cuff turner ♦ falling nets, fyke net ♦ HL-60 Cells ♦ Imhoff Cone ♦ LABORER, PRESTRESSED CONCRETE, Langer-Giedion Syndrome ♦ Mach cone, McNally-Carpenter centrifuge ♦ nicker and breaker ♦ PIPE-ORGAN TUNER AND REPAIRER, Plant Root Cap, PRIMER-POWDER BLENDER, DRY ♦ shirring tender, submarine fan ♦ taper bit, TESTER OPERATOR, tricone bit ♦ wedge rose bit, wind cone. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cone-shaped cores are sectioned in various orientations. Viral genomic RNA is located in the electron-dense wide end of core. Credit: CDC. |  | A cone-shaped basalt cliff across the John Day River from a viewpoint. Credit: John Craig. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For this exercise, you stand and hold a cone-shaped object within your vagina. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cone-shaped" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cone-shaped" is used about 22 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cone-shaped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | taille à monocône. (various references) | |
German | kegelförmig (conic, conical, tapering). (various references) | |
Italian | allevamento a monocono. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | å¡©å°» . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ã—ãŠã˜ã‚Š. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | one-shapedcay.(various references) | |
Romanian | conic (conic, conical, coniform, tapering). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-n-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: cheapens, encashed, enchased, panoches, peasecod, penoches. | |
-3 letters: achenes, acnodes, cheapen, cheapos, coheads, daphnes, dapsone, dasheen, deacons, decanes, depones, encased, enchase, encodes, escaped, panoche, peached, peaches, peahens, peascod, pechans, penoche, poached, poaches, seconde, shoepac, sneaped, speaned, spondee. | |
-4 letters: achene, acnode, anodes, ascend, canoed, canoes, capons, cashed, ceased, censed, chapes, chased, cheapo, cheaps, cheeps, chosen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-n-o-p-s" | |
+3 letters: diencephalons, dodecaphonies. | |
+4 letters: cephaloridines. | |
+5 letters: cyproheptadines. | |
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