English Explanatory Dictionary

cone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
  2. A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
  3. 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.
  4. Anything in the general shape of a cone.
  5. The fruit of a conifer or a similarly shaped fruit or flower head of certain other plants, such as banksias and proteas.
  6. 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.
  7. An ice cream cone.
  8. A traffic cone.
  9. A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
  10. A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
  11. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
  12. Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
verb
  1. To fashion into the shape of a cone.
  2. To form a cone shape.
  3. To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Milan Township, Monroe County, Michigan, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Crosby County, Texas, United States.

Pronunciation

/ˈkəʊn/ /ˈkoʊn/ en-us-cone.ogg /ˈkon/ /ˈkoːn/

Word forms

cone cones coning coned

Etymology

From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”). Reinforced by Middle French cone, from the same Graeco-Latin source.

Synonyms

conical surface strobilus strobile cornet ice cream cone

Related words

coign coin cuneiform quoin quean queen

Derived words

air cone anterocone berry-cone bicone bristlecone cinder cone circular cone cocone conal conebill cone biopsy cone bush cone cabbage cone cell cone connector cone flower coneflower cone-flower conehead coneheaded cone-headed cone-in-cone coneless conelike conenose cone of confusion cone of death cone off cone of power cone of shame cone of silence cone of uncertainty cone pepper conepiece cone plant coner cone-shaped cone shell cone snail conetainer cone tracing conetronics cone wheat coneworm conic conic section coniform conization conoid conopeptide conotoxin cyrtocone decapicone deuterocone dicone Dirac cone discocone elliptospherocone endocone epicone

Translations

Armenian: կոն Central Bikol: balisungsong Catalan: con Catalan: pinya Cornish: pigorn Czech: kužel Czech: šiška Finnish: kartio Finnish: tötterö Finnish: tuutti Finnish: käpy French: cône French: pomme de pin French: pive German: Kegel German: Konus German: Zapfen German: Tschurtschen (Tyrol, Carinthia) Greek: κώνος Greek: κουκουνάρι Ancient Greek: κῶνος Ancient Greek: στρόβῑλος Irish: cón Irish: coirceog Irish: buaircín Italian: cono Italian: pigna Italian: strobilo Kannada: ಶಂಕು Māori: koeko Māori: koroī Portuguese: cone Portuguese: pinha Portuguese: estróbilo Romanian: con Russian: ко́нус Russian: ши́шка Scottish Gaelic: còn Scottish Gaelic: duirc Scottish Gaelic: duircean Scottish Gaelic: durcan Scottish Gaelic: cnèadag Serbo-Croatian: stožac Serbo-Croatian: čunj Serbo-Croatian: шишарка Serbo-Croatian: šišarka Slovene: stožec Slovene: stòrž Spanish: cono Spanish: cucurucho Spanish: alcartaz Spanish: cambucho Spanish: estróbilo Swedish: kon Swedish: strut Swedish: kotte Tagalog: talulo Tagalog: tagilog Turkish: koni Turkish: kozalak Ottoman Turkish: مخروط Yiddish: קאָנוס Yiddish: שישקע Southern Altai: чочогой Southern Altai: тоорчык Azerbaijani: qoza Bashkir: тубырсыҡ Basque: pinaburu Belarusian: шы́шка Bulgarian: шишарка Buryat: борбоосгой Chinese Mandarin: 球果 Chinese Mandarin: 松球 Chuvash: йӗкел Danish: kogle Dutch: dennenappel Dutch: kegelvrucht Esperanto: strobilo Estonian: käbi Evenki: чумни
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