Crossword clues for cone

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cone
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fir cone
ice cream cone
snow cone
traffic cone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
light
▪ Outside the light cone are events at space-like separations from P 1, and these can not ever communicate with P 1.
▪ These geodesics will lie inside the forward light cone through the starting event; they are time-like with.
orange
▪ The long string of orange cones ended, and the traffic speeded up.
▪ Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.
▪ They run over the orange cones.
▪ The home-run fence at Southcrest Park has been taken down and replaced by orange cones, ostensibly as a safety precaution.
■ NOUN
fir
▪ There were sudden sharp sounds, a fir cone dropping to the ground, a seagull.
nose
▪ The nose cone of the plane was shrouded in shadow.
▪ Oxygen was being administered through a nose cone.
▪ Carrington looked at Talbot and shook his head, then dropped down to the sea-bed in front of the nose cone.
▪ Because McWilliams often takes the bike out on the road, he has to swop the nose cone for the original.
▪ A spinner nose cone assembly to be built to drawing.
▪ Except that the fire is definitely located in the nose cone, which would rule out any engine explosion.
pine
▪ Or the pine cone hanging by his door.
▪ They look like crude, longish pine cones, with bracts clearly recognizable as modified leaves.
▪ The pine cone appeared on many ancient amulets and was regarded as a symbol of fertility.
▪ Hanging from the ceiling is a cello-size pine cone.
▪ She was picking up huge pine cones.
traffic
▪ Also it should be lit at night and have traffic cones placed in an oblique line on the approach to it.
▪ Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.
▪ It displayed no owner identification marks and was without benefit of either warning traffic cones or night lights.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a volcanic cone
▪ Remember how they used to give you roasted chestnuts in a little cone of newspaper?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Botany yarns and cotton yarns are dry spun and waxed on cone.
▪ He pulled up, climbed out, and removed the plastic cone that had kept the space free.
▪ He walked further into the hall, shifting the cone of yellow light.
▪ Its massive cone rose five thousand feet above the Bahdu plain and a chain of foothills stretched south-west parallel with the Awash.
▪ Lower down and a little to the left rose the slimmer, more pointed cone of a second, subsidiary volcano.
▪ Spray wax is easy to use, just spray the ball or cone lightly.
▪ The family of light cones at all the points may be regarded as part of the Minkowskian geometry of space-time.
▪ These spatter cones contain little, if any, fine-grained ashy material and are amongst the most characteristic products of Hawaiian eruptions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cone

Cone \Cone\ (k[=o]n), v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.

Cone

Cone \Cone\ (k[=o]n?), n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. kw^nos; 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 cone or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base.

Eight cone. See Cone, 1.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cone

1560s, from Middle French cone (16c.) or directly from Latin conus "a cone, peak of a helmet," from Greek konos "cone, spinning top, pine cone," perhaps from PIE root *ko- "to sharpen" (cognates: Sanskrit sanah "whetstone," Latin catus "sharp," Old English han "stone").

Wiktionary
cone

n. 1 (label en geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotate a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line. 2 (label en geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes. 3 (label en topology) 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 shaped like a cone.''The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary'', Oxford University Press, 1998 5 The fruit of a conifer. 6 An ice cream cone. 7 A traffic cone 8 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. 9 Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retin

1. 10 (label en slang) The bowl piece on a bong. 11 (label en slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong. 12 (label en slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint. 13 (label en slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them) 14 (label en category theory) Given a diagram ''F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a ''cone'' consists of an object ''N'' of ''C'', together with a family of morphisms ψ''X'' : ''N'' → ''F''(''X'') indexed by all of the objects of ''J'', such that for every morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' in ''J'', $F\left(f\right) circ psi_X = psi_Y$. Then ''N'' is the ''vertex'' of the ''cone'', whose ''sides'' are all the ψ''X'' indexed by Ob(''J'') and whose ''base'' is ''F''. The ''cone'' is said to be "from ''N'' to ''F''" and can be denoted as (''N'', ψ). 15 A shell of the genus ''Conus'', having a conical form. 16 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. v

2. 1 (label en pottery) To fashion into the shape of a ''#Noun''. 2 (label en frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones

WordNet
cone
1. n. 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]

cone

v. make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"

Wikipedia
Cone (disambiguation)

A cone is a basic geometrical shape.

Cone may also refer to:

Cone (topology)

In topology, especially algebraic topology, the cone CX of a topological space X is the quotient space:

CX = (X × I)/(X × {0})

of the product of X with the unit interval I = [0, 1]. Intuitively we make X into a cylinder and collapse one end of the cylinder to a point.

If X sits inside Euclidean space, the cone on X is homeomorphic to the union of lines from X to another point. That is, the topological cone agrees with the geometric cone when defined. However, the topological cone construction is more general.

Cone

A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.

A cone is formed by a set of line segments, half-lines, or lines connecting a common point, the apex, to all of the points on a base that is in a plane that does not contain the apex. Depending on the author, the base may be restricted to be a circle, any one-dimensional quadratic form in the plane, any closed one-dimensional figure, or any of the above plus all the enclosed points. If the enclosed points are included in the base, the cone is a solid object; otherwise it is a two-dimensional object in three-dimensional space. In the case of a solid object, the boundary formed by these lines or partial lines is called the lateral surface; if the lateral surface is unbounded, it is a conical surface.

In the case of line segments, the cone does not extend beyond the base, while in the case of half-lines, it extends infinitely far. In the case of lines, the cone extends infinitely far in both directions from the apex, in which case it is sometimes called a double cone. Either half of a double cone on one side of the apex is called a nappe.

The axis of a cone is the straight line (if any), passing through the apex, about which the base (and the whole cone) has a circular symmetry.

In common usage in elementary geometry, cones are assumed to be right circular, where circular means that the base is a circle and right means that the axis passes through the centre of the base at right angles to its plane. If the base is right circular the intersection of a plane with this surface is a conic section. In general, however, the base may be any shape and the apex may lie anywhere (though it is usually assumed that the base is bounded and therefore has finite area, and that the apex lies outside the plane of the base). Contrasted with right cones are oblique cones, in which the axis passes through the centre of the base non-perpendicularly.

A cone with a polygonal base is called a pyramid.

Depending on the context, "cone" may also mean specifically a convex cone or a projective cone.

Cones can also be generalized to higher dimensions.

Cone (category theory)

In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the cone of a functor is an abstract notion used to define the limit of that functor. Cones make other appearances in category theory as well.

Cone (software)

Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".

Notable features include support for Unicode and support for SMAP.

Cone (algebraic geometry)

In algebraic geometry, a cone is a generalization of a vector bundle. Specifically, given a scheme X, the relative Spec

C = SpecR
of a quasi-coherent graded O-algebra R is called the cone or affine cone of R. Similarly, the relative Proj

P(C) = ProjR
is called the projective cone of C or R.

Note: The cone comes with the G-action due to the grading of R; this action is a part of the data of a cone (whence the terminology).

Cone (formal languages)

In formal language theory, a cone is a set of formal languages that has some desirable closure properties enjoyed by some well-known sets of languages, in particular by the families of regular languages, context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages. The concept of a cone is a more abstract notion that subsumes all of these families. A similar notion is the faithful cone, having somewhat relaxed conditions. For example, the context-sensitive languages do not form a cone, but still have the required properties to form a faithful cone.

The terminology cone has a French origin. In the American oriented literature one usually speaks of a full trio. The trio corresponds to the faithful cone.

Usage examples of "cone".

Seawolf responded to the rudder, the nose cone avoiding the pier to the south of Pier 4 as the vessel moved into the channel and a violent white foamy wake boiled up aft at the rudder.

By that time the warhead received its signal to detonate and the fuse flashed into incandescence, lighting off an intermediate explosive set in the center of the main explosive, which erupted into a white-hot segment that detonated the high-explosive cylinder of the unit in the nose cone aft of the seeker and navigation modules forward of the central processor.

In mounds and valleys and ridges and cones, it lay as albescent as bone dust.

Backing out through the curtain, Alec dumped the contents of the mortar into a parchment cone and hurried out past the crowd that had gathered in the street.

The steepness of the cone suggested viscous lava flows, which on Earth would mean a predominance of andesitic rock.

She was neatly and modestly dressed in a sports bikini of the latest style, her translucent bra extended in twin peaks by finger-long cones of pinkish nipple-colored plastic.

Little Sherri Hall had been made to shed her gold foil cones for a junior, bimbette version of the above.

All the other windows in the payload section, including those in the seven ring modules encircling the hub, offer only side views, and none look forward: the view would have been blocked by the main fuel tank and the vast cone of the Bussard ramscoop.

The gruff old Basque poet had been down here for two days, making base camp at the foot of the cone and taking little Theseus sorties into the small caves and galleries that gave out from the principal chamber.

She started their herb tea steeping, adding some birch cambium for the wintergreen flavor, then took the pine cones out of the edge of the fire.

She then applied the plane generated by taking the seventh angle cosecant of a trisected cone that had been created from a five dimensionally rotated equilateral right triangle-impossible without awareness of ireality mathematics-and then combined the resulting geometric paradox to the chronowarp.

The decapod came back, hovered over the shapes, selected a cone, and inserted it into the appropriate hole in the board.

But at midnight, just as the drier is drawing the hops, a thunderstorm bursts, and the blue lightning lights up the red cone without, blue as the sulphur flames creeping over the charcoal within.

For these perfectly supple beings rejoiced in executing aerial evolutions, flinging out wild rhythmical streamers, intertwining with one another in spirals, concentrating into opaque spheres, cubes, cones, and all sorts of fantastical volumes.

Within eleven or twelve feet of the very tip of the tongue-like rock whereon we stood there arose, presumably from the far bottom of the gulf, a sugarloaf-shaped cone, of which the summit was exactly opposite to us.