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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

... 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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