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noun

Cone 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 scoriae 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."

3.

(Bot.) 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.

4.

(Zool.) 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 cone or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base.

Eight cone. See Cone, 1.

verb

Cone v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

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Etymology of 'Cone'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cone" Quotes from Famous Books

... Strutt's Sports and Pastimes:—The game of cat is played with a cudgel. Its denomination is derived from a piece of wood, about six inches long and two thick, diminished from the middle to form a double cone. When the cat is placed on the ground, the player strikes it smartly—it matters not at which end—and it will rise with a rotatory motion high enough for him to strike it; if he misses, another player takes ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... sixpence to catch you as many as he can in the morning, and he forthwith starts on his piscatorial errand with a large basket, cone shaped, of two feet diameter at the bottom and about eight inches at the top. This basket is open at both ends, and is ...

— The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker

... pods of which the onagas browsed greedily, and which supplied a sweet pulp of excellent flavour. There, too, the colonists again found groups of magnificent kauries, their cylindrical trunks, crowned with a cone of verdure, rising to a height of two hundred feet. These were the tree-kings of New Zealand, as celebrated as the cedars ...

— The Secret of the Island • W.H.G. Kingston (translation from Jules Verne)

... effect is required, the steel-tipped conical ball should be used. I once shot through fourteen elm planks, each one inch thick, with a four-ounce steel-tipped cone, with the small charge (for that rifle) of four drachms of powder. The proper charge for that gun is one-fourth the weight of the ball, or one ounce of powder, with which it carries with great nicety and terrific effect, owing to its great weight of metal ...

— Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker

... of the cone on which dwelt our hosts. It was one of those hills that seem in no part steep, and yet which finally succeed in raising one to a considerable height. We passed two ostrich herds in charge of savages, rode through a scattered ...

— African Camp Fires • Stewart Edward White

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