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cone

/ˈkəʊn//ˈkoʊn/

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

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Noun

cone (plural cones)

  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. The fruit of a conifer or a similarly shaped fruit or flower head of certain other plants, such as banksias and proteas.
    Synonyms:
    strobilus, strobile
  5. 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.
  6. An ice cream cone.
  7. A traffic cone.
  8. (broadly, slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
  9. (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
  10. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
  11. Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
  12. (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
    1. (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
  13. 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 cone is an object (the apex) and a natural transformation from a constant functor (whose image is the apex of the cone and its identity morphism) to a diagram functor. Its components are projections from the apex to the objects of the diagram and it has a “naturality triangle” for each morphism...
  14. 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.

Verb

cone (third-person singular simple present cones, present participle coning, simple past and past participle coned)

  1. (transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
  2. (intransitive) To form a cone shape.
    • Under the old method the material coned at the bottom of the borehole and as a result it would not go under houses and buildings.1971, United States. Congress. House Appropriations, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1972 (part 3, page 69)
  3. (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
    • The area occupied by the works should be coned off and the usual advance warning signs should be provided on all approaches2006, Great Britain: Department for Transport, “D5 Single Carriageway Roads”, in Traffic Signs Manual, Part 1, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, paragraph D5.12.3, page 140
  4. (transitive) To place a traffic cone on (a statue, etc.) as a prank.

Proper noun capitalized: Cone

Cone (countable and uncountable, plural Cones)

  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.

cone meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

cone in Hindi

surface of revolution
शंकु śaṅku

cone in Tamil

anything shaped like a cone
கூம்பு kūmpu

cone in Marathi

शंकू

cone in Urdu

مخروطہ
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cone in Bengali
শঙ্কু śoṅku
cone in Telugu
కోన్, శంకువు, శంకువుకు
cone in Malayalam
വൃത്തസ്തൂപിക
cone in Kannada
ಶಂಕು śaṅku
cone in Punjabi
ਕੋਨ, ਕੋਨ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
cone in Gujarati
શંકુ, કોન
cone in Odia
କୋନ୍
cone in Sinhala
කේතුව kētuwa
cone in Nepali
शंकु
cone in Tagalog
talulo, tagilog, puntok
cone in Arabic
مَخْرُوط maḵrūṭ
cone in Malay
kerucut, kon
cone in Indonesian
kerucut
cone in Persian
مخروط maxrut, چلغوزه čalĝūze, گلوژ geluž
cone in Thai
กรวย gruai
cone in Vietnamese
nón
cone in Myanmar
အဝိုင်းထုချွန် a.wuing:htu.hkywan

Examples of cone in a sentence

  • We should soak the kiln at cone 9 for half an hour.
  • The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
  • We will channel the traffic to the left with these cones.

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Synonyms of cone

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Forms of cone

Noun
pluralcones
Verb
third-person singular presentcones
present participleconing
past participleconed
pastconed
Proper noun
pluralCones

Plural of cone: cones

Origin of cone

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.

Words formed from cone

Phrases with cone

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Words that rhyme with cone

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Questions about cone

What does cone mean?
Cone means a surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
What is cone in Hindi?
Cone in Hindi is शंकु (śaṅku). See Cone meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cone?
Cone can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cone?
Cone is pronounced /ˈkəʊn/ (UK).
What is the plural of cone?
The plural of cone is cones.

Words near cone in the dictionary

  1. condylotomies
  2. condylotomy
  3. condylotuberal
  4. condylure
  5. condylures
  6. cone
  7. cone biopsies
  8. cone biopsy
  9. cone bush
  10. cone bushes
  11. cone cabbage

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cone (page history and authors); Cone (page history and authors); cone (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cone (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cone (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cone (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cone (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cone (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cone (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cone (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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