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Cone

noun

Any cone-shaped artifact.

A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point. Synonyms: cone shape, conoid.

Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts. Synonyms: strobile, strobilus.

A visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color. Synonyms: cone cell, retinal cone.

verb

Make cone-shaped.

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"Cone" Quotes from Famous Books

... gnarly trees, I am sitting, lonely-hearted, listening to a lonely breeze! Sitting by an ancient casement, casting many a longing look Out across the hazy gloaming—out beyond the brawling brook! Over pathways leading skyward—over crag and swelling cone, Past long hillocks looking like to waves of ocean turned to stone; Yearning for a bliss unworldly, yearning for a brighter change, Yearning for the mystic Aidenn, ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... silent corridors. Vibrationless, with the electronic engines cut off and only the hum of the Martel magnetizers to break the unnatural stillness. We were well beyond the earth's atmosphere, heading out in the cone-path of the earth's shadow, in the direction ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various

... was heavy-eyed, uncommunicative. As they climbed the shoulder and came to the rich, black soil that surrounded the ancient cone of Warrenheip, he mused on his personal relation to the place he had just left. And not for the first time he asked himself: what am I doing here? When he was absent from Ballarat, and could dispassionately ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... and the varied deposits thereupon, but the most important result of the work of Mr. Gibbs and his associates was the discovery of the formation of the extreme northern portion of the earth. The rock-bed of the sea was found to be of the shape of a flattened cone, regularly sloping off ...

— The Great Stone of Sardis • Frank R. Stockton

... the sound becomes flatter, in conformity with the laws affecting musical resonators; if I fit into the aperture of the open body a tube or trumpet of paper the sound grows louder as well as deeper. With a paper cone corresponding to the pitch of the note, with its large end held in the mouth of a test-tube acting as a resonator, we have no longer the cry of the Cigale, but almost the bellowing of a bull. My little children, coming up to me by chance at the moment ...

— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre

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