CONE
\kˈə͡ʊn], \kˈəʊn], \k_ˈəʊ_n]\
Definitions of CONE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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any cone-shaped artifact
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cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
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a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
By Princeton University
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any cone-shaped artifact
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cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
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a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
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The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, 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.
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A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
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To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
By Oddity Software
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A solid body which tapers equally to a point from a circular base; anything of similar shape; the fruit of the fir, pine, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A figure having a circular base with sides inclined so as to meet at a point above. 2. One of the flask-shaped figures Conarium or pineal body. 4. The mechanical element of a tooth crown, cusp.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A solid pointed figure with a circular base, as a sugar-loaf: fruit shaped like a cone, as that of the pine, fir, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A solid figure that tapers uniformly from a circular base to a point; a scaly fruit, as of the pine, having such a shape.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A solid body or tigure tapering to a point from a circular base, like a sugar-loaf; the seed of fruit shaped like a cone, as that of the pine; anything cone-shaped.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A figure broad and round at the bottom, gradually lessening in circumference, like a sugar-loaf; the fruit of the fir, pine, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The female flower of the Coniferae, with woody axis and spirally arranged carpels; a conical elevation on an egg just before fertilization; a conical or flask-shaped cell of the retina.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A pyramid with a circular base.
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An aggregated fruit composed of a conical or oval mass of imbricated scales, as in the pine and in gymnosperms generally.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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