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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cone \cone\ k=on?, n. l. conus cone in sense 1, gr.
   kw^nos; akin to skr. ,cana whetstone, l. cuneus wedge, and
   prob. to e. hone. see hone, 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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            now had night measured with her shadowy cone
            half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. --milton.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   4. zool. a shell of the genus conus, having a conical
      form.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
hone right cone coniferae conus cone of rays cone pulley 
oblique cone scalene cone eight cone cone 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cone \cone\ k=on, v. t.
   to render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of
   a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
cone
     n 1: any cone-shaped artifact
     2: a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a
        point syn: conoid, cone shape
     3: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
        syn: strobilus, strobile
     4: visual receptor cell sensitive to color syn: cone cell, retinal
        cone
     v : make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
see also:
conoid cone shape strobilus strobile cone cell retinal cone 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 moby thesaurus words for "cone":
   acoustical network, ament, capacitor speaker, capitulum, catkin,
   coaxial speaker, complex cone, conelet, conoid, cop, cornet,
   corymb, crossover network, cyme, diaphragm, dynamic speaker,
   earphone, electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker,
   electrostatic speaker, excited-field speaker,
   full-fidelity speaker, funnel, head, headphone, headset,
   high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker, horn,
   ice-cream cone, loudspeaker, low-frequency speaker,
   midrange speaker, monorange speaker, moving-coil speaker, panicle,
   permanent magnet speaker, pine cone, raceme, spadix, speaker,
   speaker system, speaker unit, spike, spikelet, strobile, thyrse,
   triaxial speaker, tweeter, umbel, verticillaster, voice coil,
   woofer




[5] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
cone, tx
  zip codes: 79357


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Cone >> C Words
Cone, definition of term: Cone
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Pine Cone >> P Words
Pine Cone, definition of term: Pine Cone
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Nose Cone >> N Words
Nose Cone, definition of term: Nose Cone
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