EGAVE

cone

About 6.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
  2. noun A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
  3. noun 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. noun Anything in the general shape of a cone. The fruit of a conifer or a similarly shaped fruit or flower head of certain other plants, such as banksias and proteas.
  5. noun The fruit of a conifer or a similarly shaped fruit or flower head of certain other plants, such as banksias and proteas.
  6. noun 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. noun An ice cream cone.
  8. noun A traffic cone. A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).

Similar words

conoid cone cell strobilus strobile cone shape retinal cone conical cone-shaped hemisphere halo

Often followed by

of and is with in to or angle at

Word family

coned cones coning right circular cone

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