Cone

What do we mean by cone?

The surface generated by a straight line, the generator, passing through a fixed point, the vertex, and moving along a fixed curve, the directrix. noun

A right circular cone. noun

The figure formed by a cone, bound or regarded as bound by its vertex and a plane section taken anywhere above or below the vertex. noun

Something having the shape of this figure. noun

A unisexual reproductive structure of most gymnospermous plants, such as conifers and cycads, typically consisting of a central axis around which there are scaly, overlapping, spirally arranged sporophylls that bear either pollen-containing structures or ovules. noun

A similar, spore-producing structure of club mosses, horsetails, and spikemosses. noun

A reproductive structure resembling a cone, such as the female inflorescence of a hop plant or the woody female catkin of an alder. noun

One of the photoreceptors in the retina of the eye that is responsible for daylight and color vision. These photoreceptors are most densely concentrated in the fovea centralis, creating the area of greatest visual acuity. noun

Any of various gastropod mollusks of the family Conidae of tropical and subtropical seas that have a conical, often vividly marked shell and that inject their prey with poisonous toxins, which can be fatal to humans. noun

To shape (something) like a cone or a segment of one. transitive verb

In geometry: A solid generated by the revolution of a right-angled triangle upon one of its sides as an axis. noun

A solid the surface of which consists of a circle, which forms its base, and the envelop of all the limited straight lines which join the circumference of the circle to a fixed point lying without the perpendicular to the circle from its center: specifically termed an oblique or scalene cone. See conic. noun

In modern geom., any surface generated by a line one point in which is fixed. noun

Anything shaped like a cone. noun

In anat.: The conarium, or pineal body of the brain. noun

One of the minute cone-shaped structures forming with the so-called “rods” a layer of the retina. See retina. noun

In conchology, a shell of the family Conidoe, characterized by its obconic form. noun

A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.

A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.

Anything shaped like a cone.

The fruit of a conifer.

A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.

An ice cream cone.

A traffic cone

A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.

Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.

The bowl piece on a bong.

The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.

A cone-shaped cannabis joint.

A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)

An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.

A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.

Words that are spelled similarly to cone:
cone.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word cone:
conus, venomous, predatory, stinging, snails, cones, scoria, cinder, geyser, crusher, snail, conic, basaltic, lava, caldera, shells, holocene, retina, allies, mollusk, volcano, gastropod, eruption, conical, crater, capable, convex, volcanic, volcanoes, erupted, vent, tangent, bipolar, apex, genus, clutch, shaped, shell, wavelength, humans, angle, cylinder, silence, meyer, scales, cells, rim, rod, diameter, mapping, marine, sensitivity, tucker, carefully, cream, shape, flank, tip, flows, radius, species, seeds, genera, handled, fossil, sphere, ash, nose, beam, rises, dome, axis, circular, vector, vision, seed, pine, classification, summit, flow, linear, sensitive, formula, gear, ago, height, plane, size, mount, varies, surface, flat, sea, tube, layer, thin, occurs, color.

Words that rhyme with cone:
bone, zone, stone, tone, loan, prone, drone, phone, own, hone, condone, alone, milestone, fone, cornerstone, postpone, hormone, homophone, known, touchstone, atone, moan, capstone, cyclone, roan, anemone, groan, throne, backbone, telephone, lone, shone, crone, chaperone, bemoan, clone, ozone, keystone, unknown, scone, mon, microphone, blown, intone, disown, flown, monotone, cologne, limestone, shown, acetone, xylophone, silicone, overtone, testosterone, joan, moonstone, baritone, grown, saxophone, sharon, undertone, homegrown, allophone, gemstone, rhinestone, rhone, tombstone, sown, let alone, cicerone, thrown, sloan, leone, brownstone, capone, whetstone, francophone, argonne, lodestone, earphone, megaphone, t-bone, collarbone, sewn, well known, gladstone, overthrown, pheromone, millstone, simone, headstone, mone, overblown, jawbone, trombone, cobblestone, rone, headphone, cortisone.

Adjectives that are often used to describe cone:
truncated, right, circular, inverted, volcanic, small, inner, hollow, double, light, single, central, perfect, pine, narrow, solid, white, blue, outer, crystalline, southern, fir, oblique, female, pointed, tangent, huge, sharp, upper, symmetrical, dark, male, flat, luminous, smaller, elongated, percha, regular, alluvial, green, steep, closed, oral, blunt, slender, past, tall, visual, ectoplacental, broad, lofty, polyhedral, forward, rounded, shaped, composite, shallow, plastic, null, and, smooth, fixed, vertical, illuminating.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective cone:
angle, bearing, plate, biopsy, pine, rod, beam, fusion, shape, test, pines, scales, flower, bit, resistance, cells, vision, clutch, wesson, nozzles, bearers, break, bits, spray, scale, shaped, spruce, response, forest, tests, sheets, pulley, penetration, segments, cutting, production, testing, dystrophy, forests, sprays, formation, fir, tip, pulleys, type, fig, shell, layer, relative, gall, density, cut, nose, head, distance, index, valves, approach, adaptation, fire, pigments, penetrometer, drive, regularity, blenders, monochromatism, dystrophies, concretions, layers, syndrome, crusher, calorimetry, independence, stone, cylinder, sheet, mosaic, surface, singularities, collection, serotiny, roof, shells, limestone, noses, kinetics.

Consonant match to cone:
keen, can, con, ken, kin, cane, coin, khan, cain, kern, coon, kane, quean, conn, koine, kain, kean, qin, cannes, kan, caine, koon, cohn, coyne, caen, kuhn, kahn, kun, keane, keene, caan, kon, kirn, cann, kann, cayne, kyne, coan, kaine, koen, cahn, kenn, kuhne, kohn, kinn, kanne, coone, kayne, kinne, kuehn, kearn, kuehne, koehn, koehne, keehn, kehn, kehne, kiehn, kiehne, kiene, kihn, kohne, koone.

Words that sound like cone:
cone, cohn, koen, coan, koehne, can, kin, coin, cane, con, keen, ken, comb, cain, khan, coon, kane, kahn, caine, cun, kine, kean, kon, conn, kan, kayne, cannes, keane, qin, cann, kun, kain, koon, combe, keene, kaine, kuhn, kenn, caan, kaan, coyne, caen, cahn, kinn, kann, coone, kohn, ccan, cayne, kein, canne, coam, conne, koine, kyne, coign, kome, kolm, kuhne, kenne, kanne, kaun, kuehn, kinne, qun, koin, kawn, conn., kuehne, kyn, qan, khoum, con-, keine, kuen, goen, goan, came, calm, coach, cam, clone, co, chem, coa, cco, cau, cheme, camm, carone, caim, cang, caem, cln, camb, cangue, co-, caux, ccom, caam.