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noun

a flat-based, single-pointed solid formed by a rotating straight line that traces out a closed-curved base from a fixed vertex point that is not in the same planeas the base; esp., one (right circular cone) formed by tracing a circle from a vertex perpendicular to the center of the base (also formed by rotating a right triangle 360° with either leg as the axis, or by rotating an isosceles triangle 360° with the altitude as the axis)

the surface of such a solid

a similar unbounded surface extending outward in both directions from a point: it is formed by rotating in an elliptical or circularpattern a straight line that always passes through this point

any object or mass shaped like a cone

; specif.,

a crisp shell of pastry for holding a scoop of ice cream

the peak of a volcano

any of various machine parts

3. Botany

a reproductive structure of certain nonflowering plants, consisting of an elongated central axis upon which are borne overlapping scales, bracts, sporophylls, etc., usually in a spiral fashion, and in which are produced pollen, spores, or ovules; strobilus: cones are found in cycads, conifers, club mosses, horsetails, etc.

any similar structure, as the catkin of hops

4. Zoology

any of the flask-shaped cells in the retina of most vertebrates, sensitive to bright light and color

cone shell

the diaphragm (sense 5) of a speaker, usually cone-shaped

verb transitiveWord forms: coned or ˈconing

to shape like a cone or a conical segment

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Chinese translation of 'cone'

cone

(kəun)

n (c)

(= shape) 圆(圓)锥(錐)体(體) (yuánzhuītǐ) (个(個), gè)
(also traffic cone) 锥(錐)形路标(標) (zhuīxíng lùbiāo) (个(個), gè)
(on tree) 球果 (qiúguǒ) (个(個), gè)
(also ice cream cone) 锥(錐)形蛋卷(捲)冰淇淋 (zhuīxíng dànjuǎn bīngqílín) (个(個), gè)
(= ice cream) 蛋筒 (dàntǒng) (个(個), gè)

单词	cone
释义	Trends of cone View usage for: cone (koʊn) Word forms: plural cones 1. countable noun A cone is a shape with a circular base and smooth curved sides ending in a point at the top. 2. countable noun A cone is the fruit of a tree such as a pine or fir. ...a bowl of fir cones. 3. countable noun A cone is a thin, cone-shaped biscuit that is used for holding ice cream. You can also refer to an ice cream that you eat in this way as a cone. She stopped by the ice-cream shop and had a chocolate cone. 4. See also pine cone, traffic cone cone in British English (kəʊn) noun 1. a. a geometric solid consisting of a plane base bounded by a closed curve, often a circle or an ellipse, every point of which is joined to a fixed point, the vertex, lying outside the plane of the base. A right circular cone has a vertex perpendicularly above or below the centre of a circular base. Volume of a cone: 1⁄3πr2h, where r is the radius of the base and h is the height of the cone b. a geometric surface formed by a line rotating about the vertex and connecting the peripheries of two closed plane bases, usually circular or elliptical, above and below the vertex See also conic section 2. anything that tapers from a circular section to a point, such as a wafer shell used to contain ice cream 3. a. the reproductive body of conifers and related plants, made up of overlapping scales, esp the mature female cone, whose scales each bear a seed b. a similar structure in horsetails, club mosses, etc Technical name: strobilus 4. a small cone-shaped bollard used as a temporary traffic marker on roads 5. Also called: retinal cone any one of the cone-shaped cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to colour and bright light verb 6. (transitive) to shape like a cone or part of a cone Word origin C16: from Latin cōnus, from Greek kōnus pine cone, geometrical cone cone in American English (koʊn) noun 1. a. a flat-based, single-pointed solid formed by a rotating straight line that traces out a closed-curved base from a fixed vertex point that is not in the same planeas the base; esp., one (right circular cone) formed by tracing a circle from a vertex perpendicular to the center of the base (also formed by rotating a right triangle 360° with either leg as the axis, or by rotating an isosceles triangle 360° with the altitude as the axis) b. the surface of such a solid c. a similar unbounded surface extending outward in both directions from a point: it is formed by rotating in an elliptical or circularpattern a straight line that always passes through this point 2. any object or mass shaped like a cone ; specif., a. a crisp shell of pastry for holding a scoop of ice cream b. the peak of a volcano c. any of various machine parts 3. Botany a. a reproductive structure of certain nonflowering plants, consisting of an elongated central axis upon which are borne overlapping scales, bracts, sporophylls, etc., usually in a spiral fashion, and in which are produced pollen, spores, or ovules; strobilus: cones are found in cycads, conifers, club mosses, horsetails, etc. b. any similar structure, as the catkin of hops 4. Zoology a. any of the flask-shaped cells in the retina of most vertebrates, sensitive to bright light and color b. cone shell 5. the diaphragm (sense 5) of a speaker, usually cone-shaped verb transitiveWord forms: coned or ˈconing 6. to shape like a cone or a conical segment Word origin ME < L conus < Gr kōnos, a wedge, peak, cone < IE base kō(n)-, to sharpen > hone1, L cos Image of cone © Rakic, shutterstock Examples of 'cone' in a sentence cone Wire together dried fruit and fir cones and use to fill any gaps. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Banana plantations and forests give way to volcanic cones and lava fields. Times, Sunday Times (2013) You can use any leftover mixture to stuff pine cones. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Use a knife to remove the core in a small cone shape. Times, Sunday Times (2015) They put cones in the middle of the road all the time. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Collect pine cones to hang on the tree. Times, Sunday Times (2013) They put cones around me in the hole. The Sun (2007) Bowls of pine cones look and smell gorgeous. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It held a bright green cone. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Often workmen go home for the weekend, leaving cones and traffic lights in place. The Sun (2016) These islands are rugged, eroded remnants of great volcanic cones. Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995) Pipe in rings of three, working inwards each time to get a nice cone shape. The Sun (2013) Touch the left cone, then shuffle across to the one to the right of centre cone and touch it. The Sun (2011) Bright blue cones ripen brown. Bloom, Adrian Winter Garden Glory (1993) Shuffle back to the centre cone, then turn around and sprint to the cone that is now in front of you. The Sun (2011) At 60mph an ice cream cone is quickly reduced to a sticky mess in the left hand that makes clutch operation either difficult or impossible. Times, Sunday Times (2015) My son brings ice-cream cones. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Count to 30, drain and cut out the core in a cone shape. Times, Sunday Times (2007) We always light incense cones when dining alfresco, a foolproof trick learnt from camping neighbours in France. Times, Sunday Times (2010) It is evident in another when they went out for ice cream cones and shared a calm, low-key mood. Larson, Reed & Richards, Maryse H. Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents (1994) Word lists with cone eye In other languages cone British English: cone /kəʊn/ NOUN shape A cone is a shape with a circular base and smooth curved sides ending in a point at the top. ...bright-orange traffic cones to stop people parking on the bridge. American English: cone Arabic: مَخْرُوط Brazilian Portuguese: cone Chinese: 锥 Croatian: stožac Czech: kužel Danish: kegle Dutch: kegel European Spanish: cono Finnish: kartio French: cône German: Kegel Greek: κώνος Italian: cono Japanese: 円錐形のもの Korean: 원뿔 Norwegian: kjegle Polish: stożek European Portuguese: cone Romanian: con Russian: конус Latin American Spanish: cono Swedish: strut Thai: กรวย Turkish: koni Ukrainian: конус Vietnamese: hình nón British English: cone NOUN for ice cream A cone is a thin, cone-shaped biscuit that is used for holding ice cream. She stopped by the ice-cream shop and had a chocolate cone. American English: cone Brazilian Portuguese: cone Chinese: 圆锥体 European Spanish: cucurucho French: cornet German: Eistüte Italian: cono Japanese: コーン Korean: 원뿔 European Portuguese: cone Latin American Spanish: cucurucho All related terms of 'cone' cone off to close (one carriageway of a motorway ) by placing warning cones across it cone roof A cone roof is a cone-shaped roof for a fuel storage tank . nose cone the conical forward section of a missile , spacecraft , etc, designed to withstand high temperatures, esp during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere pine cone A pine cone is one of the brown oval seed cases produced by a pine tree. snow cone a confection consisting of crushed ice and a flavored syrup , served in a paper cone wind cone → windsock cinder cone a small, conical volcano built of ash and cinders cone shell any of various tropical marine gastropod molluscs of the genus Conus and related genera, having a smooth conical shell storm cone a canvas cone hoisted as a warning of high winds alluvial cone a steep , narrow, cone-shaped alluvial fan formed where a swift stream suddenly slows down, as where an upland stream emerges abruptly into a level plain retinal cone a geometric solid consisting of a plane base bounded by a closed curve , often a circle or an ellipse , every point of which is joined to a fixed point, the vertex , lying outside the plane of the base. A right circular cone has a vertex perpendicularly above or below the centre of a circular base. Volume of a cone: 1 ⁄ 3 π r 2 h, where r is the radius of the base and h is the height of the cone shatter cone a cone-shaped fragment of rock, probably formed by violent shock waves, as from meteoritic impact or atomic explosions traffic cone A traffic cone is a plastic object with a pointed top that is placed on a road to prevent people from driving or parking there. volcanic cone a conical hill produced by volcanic eruption of ash , cinders , or lava ice-cream cone a conical edible wafer for holding ice cream pitch-cone angle (in a bevel gear ) the apex angle of the truncated cone ( pitch cone) which forms the reference surface on which the teeth of a bevel gear are cut roller cone bit A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate , with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces. cone of uncertainty a graphical representation showing that a forecast's accuracy tends to decrease as its timeframe increases cone penetration test a method of testing soils by pressing a cone of standard dimensions into the soil under a known load and measuring the penetration Chinese translation of 'cone' cone (kəun) n (c) (= shape) 圆(圓)锥(錐)体(體) (yuánzhuītǐ) (个(個), gè) (also traffic cone) 锥(錐)形路标(標) (zhuīxíng lùbiāo) (个(個), gè) (on tree) 球果 (qiúguǒ) (个(個), gè) (also ice cream cone) 锥(錐)形蛋卷(捲)冰淇淋 (zhuīxíng dànjuǎn bīngqílín) (个(個), gè) (= ice cream) 蛋筒 (dàntǒng) (个(個), gè)
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