ALL meanings of cones
cone
C c - noun cones Geometry. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone. 1
- noun cones anything shaped like a cone: sawdust piled up in a great cone; the cone of a volcano. 1
- noun cones ice-cream cone. 1
- noun cones Botany. the more or less conical multiple fruit of the pine, fir, etc., consisting of overlapping or valvate scales bearing naked ovules or seeds; a strobile. a similar fruit, as in cycads or club mosses. 1
- noun cones Anatomy. one of the cone-shaped cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to color and intensity of light. Compare rod (def 17). 1
- noun cones one of a series of cone-shaped markers placed along a road, as around an area of highway construction, especially to exclude or divert motor vehicles. 1
- noun cones (in a taper thread screw or bevel gear) an imaginary cone or frustum of a cone concentric to the axis and defining the pitch surface or one of the extremities of the threads or teeth. 1
- noun cones Ceramics. pyrometric cone. 1
- verb with object cones to shape like a cone or a segment of a cone. 1
- noun cones Plural form of cone. 1
- noun cones plural of cone. 0