Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cone \Cone\, v. t.
To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of
a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cone \Cone\, n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. ?; akin to Skr.
[,c]ana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See
{Hone}, n.]
1. (Geom.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of
a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to
the right angle; -- called also a {right cone}. More
generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded
by a surface which is described by a straight line always
passing through that vertical point; a solid having a
circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
2. Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as,
a volcanic cone, a collection of scori[ae] around the
crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half
way up hill this vast sublunar vault. --Milton.
3. (Bot.) The fruit or strobile of the {Conifer[ae]}, as of
the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody
scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its
base.
4. (Zo["o]l.) A shell of the genus {Conus}, having a conical
form.
{Cone of rays} (Opt.), the pencil of rays of light which
proceed from a radiant point to a given surface, as that
of a lens, or conversely.
{Cone pulley}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Oblique} or {Scalene cone}, a cone of which the axis is
inclined to the plane of its base.
{Eight cone}. See {Cone}, 1.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cone
n 1: any cone-shaped artifact
2: a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a
point [syn: {conoid}, {cone shape}]
3: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
[syn: {strobilus}, {strobile}]
4: visual receptor cell sensitive to color [syn: {cone cell}, {retinal
cone}]
v : make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
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